Chasing Shadows by Lila Bruce

Author:Lila Bruce [Bruce, Lila]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Lila Bruce Books
Published: 2019-10-13T04:00:00+00:00

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Cam had lain awake long after the conversation with Avery ended, reliving the encounter at the Johnston house and the one with Jennifer at the police station over and over again in her mind. She’d finally given up the ghost, as it were, somewhere around two a.m., lulled to sleep by the exotic combination of sheer exhaustion and the rhythmic sound of Avery snoring.

Now, waking in the early hours of the morning, she slowly became aware of a couple things at once, the first of those being the glorious aroma of bacon creeping into the room and tickling at Cam’s nose, gently nudging her awake. It’d been ages since she’d smelled—or eaten, for that matter—the unmistakable smell of real bacon frying on cast iron. The last time had to have been at Loralyn’s house, Cam decided as she opened her eyes. She and her mother had visited for Christmas the year after Cam had started on Chasing Shadows, and stayed with Loralyn for three days. Loralyn had not yet been diagnosed with the cancer that would eventually shorten her life, and had cooked enough food to feed an army. Cam had gained at least five pounds that trip and upon her return to California, Shaye promptly signed her up for a gym membership.

The other thing that Cam became aware of as she moved to full wakefulness was Avery pressed against her body. It took a moment for Cam to realize that at some point during the night she had taken up the ‘big spoon’ position and now had her arm wrapped intimately around the sleeping woman. Secondary to that realization was the feel of Avery’s breast beneath her hand. While it had been a while—although not as long as since she’d last eaten bacon—there was no mistaking the feel of supple flesh beneath a cotton shirt, nor the rigid nipple that comfortably fit in the palm of her hand. Horrified, she slowly drew her hand back, careful not to wake Avery, and eased away. Satisfied that she’d not waken her, Cam slowly inched toward her side of the bed, finally rolling over to face in the opposite direction.

She was met with the wide-eyed stare of an elderly woman with pinkish-blonde hair.

A chain reaction of piercing shrieks followed that started with Cam and was almost simultaneously matched by one from the elderly woman as she stumbled and then sprinted out of the room faster than Cam would have given her credit for being able to move, and ended with the one that Avery gave as she shot up out of the bed, took a step, then promptly fell over.

“What the ever-loving fuck?” Avery barked as she picked herself up off the bedroom floor.

Mortified and out of breath, Cam looked at Avery and then back at the doorway. “There was a woman,” she stammered. “She was just standing there staring at us and…um…she scared me.”

Avery stared at Cam, her eyes narrowing as they shifted between the doorway and Cam. “It’s way too damned early for this.

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