![]() She took a deep breath, reaching for calmness. There was very little room for maneuvering in the tiny rest room. His eyes glittered like black ice.įaith tried to back away, but she bumped against the wash-area counter. ![]() Gray filled the doorway, big and muscular and threatening, a dark scowl on his face. The door swung abruptly inward, forcing her to jump back to avoid being hit. She was alone in the tiny, two-stall facility, and she waited, frozen, for the sound of his footsteps passing by. She saw the sign and darted inside, then pushed the door closed and stood with one hand pressed to her chest in an effort to calm the thudding of her heart. She whisked around the corner, and the women’s rest room was right there, on the left. As she reached the end of the hallway and turned the corner, she glanced back and saw him striding rapidly toward her, his long legs shrinking the distance between them at an alarming rate. She heard the low rumble of his voice, recognizable anywhere, and speeded her steps. ![]() It was a purely instinctive reaction her mind knew she needed to talk to him, but her body fled. Without missing a step she whipped around to go back toward the sheriffs department, panicked at the thought of facing him again after the rawness of their last meeting. Halfway down the long corridor, she saw a tall, powerfully built man with long, dark hair stop to speak to the little blue-haired lady.įaith’s heart almost stopped. She left the sheriffs department and retraced her path.
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