Heart of Rockies 03 - More Than a Feeling by Sara Richardson

Author:Sara Richardson [Richardson, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781455530908
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Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2016-03-29T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

When Sawyer was eight years old, there was a mystery in the Hawkins household that he’d taken it upon himself to solve. One morning, when everyone filed downstairs for one of Mom’s gourmet breakfasts, they found a kitchen window broken, unlocked, and open.

Right away Mom had flown into a panic, forcing Dad to call the police. But nothing was missing from the house, so they filed a report, fixed the window, and moved on with life. Everyone except him, of course. The desire to know what had happened burned inside of him and inspired him to launch his own investigation. He started by examining the window, which, judging from how the glass had fallen, had definitely been broken from the outside. But, if it had been an intruder, they would’ve taken something…Mom’s three-carat diamond ring that she always left on the ring stand above the kitchen sink, maybe? It would’ve been so easy. Someone could’ve swiped it in two minutes and gotten out of there. But the diamond ring was still there. Which made Sawyer watch his two older sisters carefully.

They’d sure acted shocked, feeding Mom’s panic with their dramatic cries.

“Who would break into our house?”

“I don’t feel safe here anymore!”

But both of his sisters had moved on from the incident a little too easily, he’d noticed, when not a half hour after the police left, Samantha was giggling on the phone. That moment happened to be his first clue that there hadn’t been an intruder at all. After she’d hung up the phone, he’d casually asked her who she’d been speaking to.

Lucky for him it had been Courtney, the only one of her friends to ever even notice he was alive. She spent so much time at their house that he’d developed a little brother relationship with her, too. So after Sam left the room, he called Courtney right back.

Growing up with two sisters had taught him one very important thing about women: they tell each other absolutely every detail about everything that has ever happened to them. It’s almost as though they can’t think something without voicing it to another female friend, who will then help them dissect it over and over and over, coming to no logical conclusion, but somehow dealing with it in the process.

Courtney had answered the phone right away, and Sawyer, who still sounded like a girl back then, did his best to mimic his sister’s voice. “Just wanted to remind you not to tell my parents about last night,” he half whispered to cover up the cracks in his voice.

“Are you kidding?” Courtney had squealed. “I’d never tell them. I’m just glad they didn’t catch you sneaking back in! You’d better remember your key next time you do that.”

Case solved. He never ratted out Sam. It was enough satisfaction to know what had happened, that he’d figured out something when the grown-ups couldn’t. That was the minute he knew he’d be a police officer someday. Even back then he’d always exceled at

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