Danger In The Shadows by Dee Henderson

Author:Dee Henderson
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781414354828
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

CHAPTER 9

Days passed, then a week, two weeks. Sara went back to work, determined by the end of the month to finish the children’s book she was creating. She spoke with Adam frequently by phone but refused his invitations out. One scare was enough.

She had to commend him for his persistence. He called every night. It was embarrassing how much she looked forward to those phone calls. They didn’t talk about anything profound.

Books. Adam was an avid reader. The twelve years of constant travel and living in hotel rooms had resulted in a lifestyle where reading a new book was part of his normal evening. He preferred techno thrillers and suspense novels. Since he didn’t know she wrote as H. Q. Victor, and Sara had no intention of telling him due to the security policy she had with her brother, she had to be careful in how she voiced her opinions of books they had both read. She liked to take stories apart and see how they worked. Adam was good at finding new, talented authors.

Sports. Sara was becoming very conversant about football and baseball news. She never liked to be ignorant in any subject she deemed important—even her children’s books were carefully researched—so she had been doing her sports homework, much to Dave’s amusement as she pestered him with questions while they ate dinner. She had to be prepared for the phone call with Adam later that evening.

They rarely talked about work during those calls. Long hours at the office appeared to be the norm for them both. They avoided bringing it into their time off.

Sara shuffled colored pencils in her hand. She was at the drawing table in her office, working on the final colors for a sketch. It was almost complete.

She couldn’t find her lilac soft-lead pencil. She sorted through the ones that had accumulated on her desk. She was going to have to take a day off to clean this office and put everything back in place. The supplies wandered with her over time until she got to the point where she couldn’t find anything.

She finally found the pencil she sought.

Sara picked up her teacup. Empty. Again. She set down the cup, annoyed.

She looked up when she heard a familiar four-tap knock on the door. Dave came in and Sara was startled to see Adam behind him.

“What are you two doing here?”

“We brought lunch,” Adam replied, as if that explained everything.

Dave looked over the drawing. “Nice dolphin.”

“Where do you want it?” Adam asked.

Sara gestured to the open work space by the window. “There, I guess.” Adam looked great. She followed his movements with artist’s eyes and longed to sketch a portrait.

Several times in the past two weeks, Adam had tried to convince her to come to his office and join him for lunch. She always refused the invitations for security reasons. For the same reason, she turned down his suggestion that he come over here. She didn’t want them seen together, not in the building where they both worked.

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