5
Katrina awoke with a start. It was soft twilight. She listened carefully, but didn’t hear a thing…because, s**t, she was deaf. This was definitely going to take some getting used to.
She was also warm and comfortable inside the curve of a man’s arm. Of Tomas Gallagher’s arm. For a moment she let herself revel in the feel of it, the security of being held, of lying against a man she trusted with her very life.
Except they were both soldiers.
As she pushed herself upright, he eased his arm off her shoulders.
“You didn’t wake me for my half of the watch.”
He shrugged.
She thumped the side of a fist against his shoulder.
He tapped his ear and then hers with a soft touch.
Oh right, she couldn’t listen. “Sorry. I hope you didn’t mind me sleeping on you.”
He clamped both hands around
