C is for Caddie - Gini Roberge - Bog

Your next best friend, Caddie, has arrived!
SECOND EDITION, previously released as The Alpha Ladies Series
Putting your life together again after a horrific time in your life isn't easy, but with the help of new friends, a new degree with exciting jobs lined up and a tall handsome man, it helps. But sometimes it takes more to find that last piece that makes your heart and soul heal. But fear and uncertainty keep me from looking into the past so I can have my future. Book Four Excerpt: He snorted in his sleep and my whole body screamed out in fear...my eyes closed at the impending assault but none came. The mattress lifted as he turned onto his back. His breaths deepened in his drunken sleep. I needed to get away...had to get away. This could be my only chance. I was sure my friends were out looking for me and had probably already called the police but I couldn't wait. I needed to go now while he was asleep. If they came and he woke before they could rescue me...what would he do to me? I had to leave now. I took a deep breath to gather internal strength and calm my shattered nerves. I slid one leg off the bed. At only 5 feet tall, my leg was too short to even touch the floor but it dangled in the air and waited. I counted his breaths and waited for him to move again. At 36 he rolled onto his side away from me. I rolled at the same time and quietly fell off the bed. I froze waiting for him to explode...to yell that I wasn't doing what he told me to...to grab my long blonde hair and pull me back up on the bed but his breathing was the only thing I heard. The door was on the other side of the room so I very slowly crawled on the floor around the foot of the bed. I stared at him...waiting for any indication that he was waking up. Half of me wanted to get back on the bed in fear...the other half wanted me to run in fear. My body trembled...I was almost at the door so I slowly rose. My hand touched the cold metal of the handle, my eyes still staring at him, I turned the knob...there was a grinding of metal against metal from inside the mechanism. I held my breath, trembled, and his eyes opened. They were angry and terrifying.