Always, Evelyn: Love Notes Book 3 by Autumn Reed

Author:Autumn Reed [Reed, Autumn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-03-13T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

July, Camp Shining Light

It's my last day. It's my last few minutes here, actually. I'm waiting for the director, Sharon, to pick me up and take me to the bus station.

Mom called this morning, and since there's only one phone that goes directly to the director's office, it took them a while to find me so I could talk to her.

Dad had a stroke.

I'm afraid he's going to die.

What if it’s my fault?

Evelyn

I stared at the cross, unblinking, for so long, my eyes started burning. Though it was only a couple of feet long, it seemed to take up all the space in the room. As I studied the word “mine” in the wood, images of those same letters being carved into my skin sprang to mind, and a shudder ran through my body.

For the first time since I’d discovered the “mine” emails, the possibility that I might be in danger sank in. This wasn’t normal . . . not even close.

“Where did that come from?” Presley demanded, snapping me out of my daze.

“It was left outside the gate.” Landon covered it back up, as though the image wasn’t already branded on my brain for eternity.

Rook led the head of the security team into the room. As Marshall inspected the present left for me and asked the guys questions, I returned to putting the finishing touches on the lasagna and tuned everyone out. Ever since handing my email account over to the private investigator, I’d been avoiding all thoughts of a possible stalker like a champ. Out of sight, out of mind.

Unfortunately, my avoidance game was over. While some of the drawings attached to the emails had been disturbingly graphic, they hadn’t seemed quite real. The cross, though, was a little too real. If I wanted to—which I absolutely did not—I could pick it up. Hold it in my hands. Run my fingers over the jagged letters that dripped with red.

Another shudder raced through me, but this time it didn’t stop. Before I knew what was happening, my entire body was shaking so violently, I could barely hold on to the pan of lasagna in my hands.

“Here, let me take that,” Tyler said, his voice soothing as he seized the dish and slid it into the oven. “Should I set a timer?”

Wrapping my arms around my waist, I nodded. “Forty-five minutes.”

He punched the numbers into the oven timer before grabbing a bottle of water from the fridge and placing a hand on my lower back to steer me to the open patio doors. Feeling the pitying stares on me, I kept my eyes fixed on the floor. One foot in front of the other. That was the best I could do right now.

“Sit,” Tyler gently commanded when we reached the closest chair. “And drink this.”

Kneeling, he held the water to my mouth, poised to feed it to me like a baby’s bottle. I wasn’t so out of it that I was going to let that happen, so I took

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