Hiding in Park City by RaeAnne Thayne

Author:RaeAnne Thayne [Thayne, RaeAnne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488098512
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2003-03-22T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

Her arms aching, Allie hurried through her house to the laundry room off the kitchen, then set down the heavy plastic basket full of soaking-wet bedding.

It was just her luck that Gage’s dryer decided to blitz out on her when she still had three loads of his laundry left to do that day. Until Mrs. Jensen had a chance to send her son over to take a look at the blasted thing, Allie would just have to cart everything over to her own place to use her dryer—either that or she could hang it all up to snap and blow in the June sunshine.

As if she needed one more thing to worry about. Her blood glucose levels were being wacky, she hadn’t slept well the night before and she’d nearly had a heart attack earlier that morning on the way back from the grocery store when a police officer had followed her for six blocks.

The squad car had eventually pulled off onto a side street, but her pulse still hadn’t settled down. If she couldn’t manage to somehow develop a tougher skin and stop panicking at every little thing, she would never survive life on the run.

And if she didn’t hurry here, she would never get through the laundry, she chided herself. Sighing at her own paranoia, she removed the load of towels she had thrown in the dryer the night before then quickly transferred Gage’s linens inside.

She had left Anna and Gaby playing in his backyard and she didn’t want to be away from them for too long. Still, she decided she had time to fold that batch of towels rather than leave them on top of the dryer. That would be one less thing she had to do later that night when she and the girls returned back to their own house.

Except for that day’s near encounter with the Park City police officer, things were going quite well, she reminded herself. She had nothing to complain about.

Working for Gage really was a perfect situation in nearly every way, almost like working from home, since she was close enough to run over here if she needed anything—if the girls ran out of toys or she needed to run a test strip or, like now, she just needed to run over and toss a load of clothes into the dryer.

Gaby and Anna had settled into a routine where they played together outside or watched a video in the morning, then went to the park with Jessica Farmer and her younger siblings for a few hours in the afternoon.

They loved those times with friends but also seemed to be basking in the extra time and attention Allie was able to give them in the mornings. It would be hard on them all when this little idyll ended.

Not exactly an idyll, she corrected herself. Maybe it would be if not for Gage and her tangle of feelings for him. But she was coming to care for him far too much, and it scared her worse than any Park City police officer tailing her in a squad car.

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