Moonlit Embrace
“Her fear snaked around him so cold that he shivered with it. Respect for what she was trying to do kept him from running down the street and meeting her halfway.
His nose tingled as she passed.
A sliver of dread drilled itself into his mind. There it was again. He shifted through smells around her, dialing in on one out of the many. Baron prayed his nose was wrong again, but knew it wasn’t.
Wyoming.
Not a lot.
But enough that she wouldn’t walk alone again. “So you didn’t run into anyone?”
“Nope. I bumped into them. It’s crowded out there. Guess everyone’s rushing to get things done before those clouds open up. Did your deliveries come in?”
“One. Take this.” He put her to work updating the financials from the latest round of invoices. When he was certain that no one was looking, he went back and did a loop around the building to double check the locks. Nothing yet.
Back inside, he folded cloth napkins on the tablet next to Johanna.
She rapped his knuckles with her pen.
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