Wild Men of Alaska 01 - Impact

and I thought you were over me and moving on with your life. I had to stop that.”
    “Stop me from moving on with my life?”
    He clammed up, rolled his lips over his teeth and refused to continue. It was her turn to narrow her eyes.
    “So you laid in wait until you thought I was ready? Ready for you to come charging back into my life to pick up were we left off?” Her tone continued to rise. “Where we left off was me standing over you after I shot you with your own gun.”

Chapter Seven

    “So we have some relationship issues to work out. An apology wouldn’t be out of order either.” He rubbed the upper shoulder of his broken arm, where the bullet had grazed him. Maybe if he acted like he was in pain, she’d cut him some slack. It wouldn’t be much of an act with his aching broken arm. “That bullet really hurt.”
    “I sent you an apology.”
    “One your therapist probably told you to write.”
    “It was part of the program.”
    “You were still angry with me.”
    “Yes. I heard you went to the judge and testified against me. I’d already pled out. You made sure I was sent to jail.”
    So much for cutting him some slack. “There wasn’t any other way I knew that would get you off the drugs.” He reached out to take her hand, but she linked them behind her back. His attention was caught by her breasts as the action lifted them front and center. God, she had beautiful breasts. What he would give if she let him ...
    The scowl on her face deepened. This wasn’t helping his cause either.
    “Wren, I’d tried everything, but nothing worked. You were going to kill yourself if something drastic wasn’t done.”
    “Sending me to jail almost killed me.”
    That tore his attention away from her generous breasts. “What are you talking about?” Dread settled into his stomach. He’d had people looking out for her, keeping tabs, reporting back. He hadn’t heard of anything life threa tening happening to her inside.
    “Nothing.” She turned away from him.
    He grabbed her arm and swung her around. “Tell me.”
    “Get your hands off me.” She ya nked her arm free of his grasp.
    “You didn’t mind them a few minutes ago.”
    “A few minutes ago I was out of my mind with cold and hunger.”
    “You’re still cold and hungry.”
    She growled. “Would you quit twisting my words?”
    “Then be honest with me, and tell me what happened, damn it.”
    “I almost ended it, okay.”
    “What?”
    She ran a hand through her hair, wincing as she brushed the bump on her head. “It was too much. The withdrawals, the confinement, not having you—it was just too much. One night, I tried to hang myself with the sheets from my bed.”
    He sucked in a breath as his heart missed a beat. “Why wasn’t I told of this?”
    “Probably because it didn’t work. I’m still here, aren’t I?” She arched a brow and folded her arms across her chest.
    Well, shit. He remembered that look all too well. He shouldn’t have reminded her that he had spies in the jail reporting back to him. Maybe if they ate, figured out a way to warm up this busted plane, she’d be a little more open for sharing, talking. He wasn’t going to get anywhere with her and their relationship if he didn’t at least try.
    A gust of wind, heavy with sleet, shook the plane. He shivered, realizing he still had on his wet shirt and his pants zipper wide open. He really needed the use of his other arm. To hell with his zipper. It didn’t bother him to be hanging out. But the shirt needed to go.
    He struggled with the buttons, one-handed.
    “Oh, for hell sake.” Wren brushed his hand out of the way. “You’re more work than a two-year-old.” She quickly freed the buttons of his shirt. She didn’t spare him a glance a s his naked chest was revealed.
    That was an ego buster. He’d worked hard on his body since they’d been apart. Building muscle had been his focus, that and his job, which the muscle came in handy for. And she didn’t even look. He had pecs, damn it, and abs.
    She helped him peel the shirt free from his good arm and then carefully inched it over his broken one. She didn’t pause in what she was doing until the fabric fell away from his bullet-grazed shoulder.
    She gasped, her fingers lightly tracing the area where her bullet had cut into him.
    “See, I told you there was a scar,” he softly murmured, enjoying the delicate touch o f her fingers on his cold skin.
    Her eyes narrowed to slits.
    Shit, he said the wrong