Shauna went into the kitchen, filled the teakettle and set it to boil. It had been a long day, and the night stretched out in front of her, dark and quiet and lonely.Lonely? She wasn’t lonely.She poured hot water into a cup, dropped a tea bag into it, her gaze caught by a light shining from a window at the Harrison place. A shadow crossed the light. Levi moving through his kitchen. Maybe making a cup of coffee or unpacking his things, going about his life just as he had for over a decade. Shauna was going to go about her life the same way. There’d be no renewal of friendship or dating or anything else. Two broken hearts in a lifetime were two too many, and there was no way she was going to risk being hurt again.She brought the tea to her room, turned on the small television and tried to lose herself in mindless sitcoms. But her thoughts kept circling back to Levi, their conversation replaying itself over and over in her mind until she finally drifted off to sleep.The television was still on when the phone rang.
