Fighting Dirty by Lori Foster

Author:Lori Foster [Foster, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-02-22T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

TRYING NOT TO be too obvious, Merissa stuck close to the very nice officer who’d shown up to look things over for her.

For the tenth time, Officer Mead asked, “You’re sure you’re okay now?”

Given she continued to play his shadow, she could understand his uncertainty.

She forced a smile. “Yes. Thank you again. I’m so sorry I overreacted like that.”

“You didn’t,” he assured her. “It’s always better to be safe.”

Safe—but not hysterical.

Her face burned anew even as her imagination stayed in hyperdrive. First the robbery, then that near miss with a speeding car and now this.

She was sure of the sound she’d heard—and maybe she’d even seen a shadow. That could have been fear playing tricks with her eyes... But what if it wasn’t?

Something had triggered the alarm.

Had she become a target, or was she just being paranoid?

She’d never been paranoid before.

The shrill alarm had so badly startled her that a vague darkness had crept in around her. She’d come very close to fainting.

Luckily, at the last second the fog had receded, but then she’d gone straight into panic mode. After ungluing her feet from the stairs, she’d raced like a lunatic into her bedroom where she’d locked the door, grabbed the phone and crouched on the other side of her bed.

The second the monitoring station called, she’d replied that yes, she absolutely needed help, and she was pretty sure she’d sounded out of control.

The security tech promised to send a cop and had put the call through for her. Minutes later the very nice officer had arrived, and it had taken all her willpower to stop cowering in her bedroom and to go to the front door and let him in.

He certainly hadn’t been spooked. After she’d shut off the alarm system, he’d gone downstairs—with her trailing close because no way in hell was she waiting behind—and he’d found all the windows and the door to the walkout closed and locked.

Next she’d followed him upstairs, where he’d not only inspected every room, he’d even looked in closets and under the beds.

Still he’d found nothing.

That had led him outside to poke around, again, with her dogging his heels, and finally he’d deduced it could only have been a critter that got in through the attic because every door and window remained secure.

“That could set off the alarm?”

He shrugged. “I don’t know. Maybe talk to your security company about it.” Going sympathetic, he asked, “Do you have someone you can invite over tonight? You probably shouldn’t be alone.”

No kidding. “I was just heading out,” she promised him. But the way he watched her made her lift her chin. “I’m not usually this jumpy. I’ve lived on my own for a while, actually. Sure, I used to have a roommate, but...” Drawing to a halt, she sighed. “You know about the recent bank robbery, right?”

“A month or so ago?”

“Yes. That was me.”

His mouth quirked. “A confession? You’re saying you robbed the place?”

“No!” She realized he was teasing and relaxed again. “I’m the manager there.

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