Impulse
“Sal said, five minutes later, “this reunion started out with a bang.”They were seated across from one another at a corner table of the lodge bar.He’d invited her back to his room to talk, but while Faith might have gotten reckless the past twenty-four hours (which she'd decided to blame on the damn lack of wind), she hadn’t turned stupid overnight.Telling herself yet again that he’d never try anything with so many cops here at the lodge, there was still no way she was willing to be alone with h...im. Which was why she was holding her bag on her lap, her right hand just inside it.“What are you doing here, Sal?”“I don’t suppose you’d buy that I’ve missed my wife?”He didn’t seem nearly as frightening as she remembered. Maybe that was because she’d blown up the memory in her mind, like a child creating a bogeyman who lived beneath the bed. Of course in the case of Faith’s childhood, the bogeymen had been all too real.Or, she thought, maybe because that aura of violence that had surrounded him like a noxious cloud was gone, leaving behind the single-minded cop who’d vowed to protect her.“I don’t know why you would’ve missed me.MoreLess
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