Secretly Craving You
“After sliding from the car, she peered through the night at the street lined with restored eighteenth and nineteenth century homes. Light shone from several of their windows. Everything appeared normal, but the ancient twisted oak limbs dripping with Spanish moss blocked out most of the illumination from the streetlights.
She had never been afraid coming home late, but something felt wrong tonight. Listening, she heard nothing except the calls of cicadas and crickets along with the hum of dista...nt traffic. Further down, someone walked their dog, and a jogger passed through Pulaski Square.
Emily climbed the steps onto her veranda. The front door stood open a crack. She froze. What the hell? Someone had broken in? A chill lanced through her and she ran back down the steps, stumbling halfway down. She grabbed onto the iron balustrade to keep from falling, her heart tripping along.
"Oh shit," she hissed over and over as she ran to her neighbor's house across the street. Fumbling with her cell phone, she dialed the police.MoreLess
She had never been afraid coming home late, but something felt wrong tonight. Listening, she heard nothing except the calls of cicadas and crickets along with the hum of dista...nt traffic. Further down, someone walked their dog, and a jogger passed through Pulaski Square.
Emily climbed the steps onto her veranda. The front door stood open a crack. She froze. What the hell? Someone had broken in? A chill lanced through her and she ran back down the steps, stumbling halfway down. She grabbed onto the iron balustrade to keep from falling, her heart tripping along.
"Oh shit," she hissed over and over as she ran to her neighbor's house across the street. Fumbling with her cell phone, she dialed the police.MoreLess
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