Damaged Goods -- Chapter 1

Erica Jensen Mystery #1

CHAPTER ONE

I jerked awake in my bed, drenched in sweat. Eight years had passed and I still had the dream. I was alive, Perkins wasn’t.

The room was a dark blur. My head was throbbing, and I blinked rapidly to clear my vision, but that didn’t work. I stared at the bedside clock and forced the numbers into focus. 0430 hours.

I flopped back on the bed and st…