Maybe it helped, because this time, as she sat down, he offered her coffee."No, thanks. Coffee makes me bounce off the walls.""Okay. But if you take this shift, you may find yourself wanting to bounce off the walls by six in the morning."A joke, and a reference to possible employment, right off t...
Hands and arms kept pulling her back, she didn’t know how many, only that she couldn’t get to the hole in the ice that had just swallowed Fred. Lindsay’s heart slammed against her ribs like a jackhammer. Gradually she realized she was screaming. “Calm down,” said a husky man on her right. He had ...
Scott wondered. Once again, Liv sat in the passenger seat beside him, long hair cascading down her shoulders, a faraway look in her eyes. But he’d had the feeling Liv needed to get out of that house for a while, and the weakness of her protests had confirmed it. He only knew one way to deal with ...
Chapter 12 Mandy carefully aligned the second newspaper clipping in its frame, eyeing it from the front before she turned it over to fit the backing into place. She’d bought the frames weeks ago—one red and one green. She’d kept them quietly stashed away so Mrs. Swanson wouldn’t bring them up. Oc...