After Midnight by Grimm Sarah & Sarah Grimm

Author:Grimm, Sarah & Sarah Grimm [Grimm, Sarah & Grimm, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2011-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Isabeau ran in the mornings. She logged five miles a day, up and down the streets within a four block radius of her bar, her running shoes slapping against the pavement, ponytail bobbing. She enjoyed the exercise. It calmed her mind, and kept her in shape.

Today she’d left her mp3 player at home, preferring to lose herself in thought rather than drown her thoughts in music. She had enough music in her head without any external source. Enough that she’d already burned through more than ten sheets of composition paper in a desperate attempt to preserve her sanity. So far, so good. In a matter of days the throbbing in her skull had abated. The lingering ache she could deal with, and in reality could have as much to do with sleep deprivation and poor eating habits as with the music itself.

Nearly two days had passed since she’d seen or spoken with Noah. Not since he’d received word that his grandfather suffered a stroke. She’d delivered him first to his hotel room to shower and pack, then to the airport to catch a flight to London. Before he’d left, she’d made a point to program her numbers into his mobile phone in the hope that he would call.

He hadn’t. Not for two days.

Forty-eight long hours.

Perhaps if she’d slept it wouldn’t eat at her. Yeah, right. She missed him. More than she imagined she could. More than made sense. She might have dwelled on that, but she was too worried about him.

How was he doing? Had his flight been a safe one? Was his grandfather conscious and aware that Noah was with him?

She asked herself these questions at least five times a day when her mind would drift away from work and lock onto Noah. They weren’t the only things she wondered when she thought of him. If she were to be honest with herself, she also wondered if she’d crossed his mind since she’d dropped him off at the airport. Or if he’d forgotten about her as soon as she was no longer just down the road from him?

“Idiot,” she muttered as she checked over her shoulder for cars, then started across the street at an angle. She wasn’t the only one left in the dark. Noah hadn’t called Dominic, either.

That was the part that kept her up at night.

The squeal of tires echoed in the still air, followed by the smooth acceleration of a car coming up the road. Isabeau glanced behind her, only to squint as the sun reflected off a mid-sized sedan that seemed to bear down on her with increasing speed. Panic bubbled up the back of her throat.

She shifted to the right, as close to the line of parked cars as she could run. There was time for the driver to correct, room for the sedan to go around her. But as she checked over her shoulder again, she found the car heading directly for her.

Oh, God. Terror brought a surge of adrenaline. Up

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