His Unexpected Family by Patricia Johns

Author:Patricia Johns [Johns, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Religious
ISBN: 0373878281
Google: mLk9aEVK_5oC
Amazon: B00BK0XH0O
Goodreads: 17277939
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-12-31T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

The next afternoon, as she drove toward the one shopping mall that Haggerston had to offer, Emily felt drained, both from the emotional turmoil lately and from the heat. South Haggerston Mall, which vainly suggested the possibility of more malls in the town, was a small building with about fourteen stores in total, most of which catered to elderly people’s fashion. The “food court,” if it could even be called such a thing, consisted of two restaurants. This was the best that Haggerston had to offer in a mall setting. The rest of the Haggerston shopping experience was street side in a lovely downtown with hanging planters and stores that kept their doors propped open in hopes of getting an errant breeze. Emily wasn’t interested in the shopping, though. She was interested in the air-conditioning, so the mall was her destination.

The heat shimmered off the road in mirages as she drove along. Summer, it seemed, had kicked it into high gear. Emily kept her windows up and the air-conditioning blasting, enjoying the brief relief. She’d get used to the heat soon enough, but the first few days were hard, and she was worried that they’d be harder still on tiny Cora.

Glancing in her rearview mirror, she saw the same nondescript sedan behind her still. That was odd. How many people could be taking her route for this long? She shrugged it off. It was a small place, and there was only one downtown. She signaled for a turn, eyeing the car behind her again. It slowed, but didn’t signal. As she turned onto a side road, the car didn’t follow, but when she looked again, she saw it stopped at the corner. After a good distance was between them, it eased around and started after her again.

Am I being followed?

It was almost a ridiculous question to ask herself, because this was Haggerston, after all. Nothing happened here, and life wasn’t a TV show. That’s it. I watch too much TV, she decided firmly. She signaled again onto Sherwood Drive. This was the long way to the mall, but she was curious to see what would happen.

A few moments later, the car eased around the corner and slowed to put more space between them. Her heart sped up. This might be Haggerston, but she was definitely being followed. She took a sharp turn into the mall parking lot and found a space near the doors. She sat there, scanning the parking-lot entrance.

Nothing. The car didn’t turn in.

Her heart began to slow down its galloping pace, and she let out a nervous laugh.

“It looks like I’m just paranoid.” She chuckled aloud. “Well, Cora, let’s go wander around the mall.” She sounded more convincing than she felt, and that was a good thing. Cora needed a calm and reassuring mother, not someone panicking over a drive to the mall.

Emily took one last look around the parking lot, but still saw nothing, so she exited the vehicle and got the baby ready to go into the mall.

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