Double Identity
“She’d slept poorly, tossing and turning most of the night, jumping at every creak and imagined sound she heard. So much for being the big, brave I-can-stand-on-my-own-and-don’t-need-anyone girl she professed to be.As hard as she’d tried last night to rest her body, it had been impossible to rest her mind. She spent most of the night second-guessing her decisions. Should she have told Holly about receiving the threatening telephone call? Should she have told Sheriff Dalton about the black sedan following her yesterday even though she had no proof it really had been? And most of all, should she have told Cain? He’d left last night believing there’d been no further threatening incidents for over a week. She hadn’t lied to him. He just hadn’t asked her the right questions.Sins of omission. Hmm.Besides, he had to leave. She’d fired him.The beginning of a smile twisted the corner of her mouth as she remembered the shocked expression on his face. She only hoped when he’d rested and had some ...time to think about things that he’d realize what she’d really done—opened the door to the possibility of more between them.She took a morning shower, a cold one, and hoped the frigid temperature would shock her system awake.MoreLess
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