Not Another New Year’s
“She shut the passenger door, then kept her grip on the handle, trying to find an anchor in her once-again reeling world.
“Ready?” Desirée asked from behind the wheel.
“For what?” Hannah muttered, her gaze trained on Tanner’s front door. Behind it was the man who’d uttered “explosive,” and with that one word had relit a fuse inside her she hadn’t known about before last night. Her skin tingled with an echo of shivery heat and she rubbed her palms against her arms to get rid of the goose ...bumps.
“Ready for anything.” With a grin, Desirée shifted the car into gear and shot out into the street, gaily waving as another vehicle honked in protest at being cut off. They sped through quiet, New Year’s morning streets. To distract herself from the other woman’s nerve-wracking driving style, Hannah focused on the passing neighborhoods. Instead of noting the car’s speed, she studied the variety of suburban houses crowded so closely together, some of them small stucco bungalows like the one where she’d spent the night, others well-tended Craftsman cottages, and others Victorians with all the prerequisite fancy edgings and fanciful paint colors.MoreLess
“Ready?” Desirée asked from behind the wheel.
“For what?” Hannah muttered, her gaze trained on Tanner’s front door. Behind it was the man who’d uttered “explosive,” and with that one word had relit a fuse inside her she hadn’t known about before last night. Her skin tingled with an echo of shivery heat and she rubbed her palms against her arms to get rid of the goose ...bumps.
“Ready for anything.” With a grin, Desirée shifted the car into gear and shot out into the street, gaily waving as another vehicle honked in protest at being cut off. They sped through quiet, New Year’s morning streets. To distract herself from the other woman’s nerve-wracking driving style, Hannah focused on the passing neighborhoods. Instead of noting the car’s speed, she studied the variety of suburban houses crowded so closely together, some of them small stucco bungalows like the one where she’d spent the night, others well-tended Craftsman cottages, and others Victorians with all the prerequisite fancy edgings and fanciful paint colors.MoreLess
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