Into the Night by Debra Webb

Author:Debra Webb
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-05-13T20:40:10+00:00

Chapter Nine

Monday, August 5

Cece watched as the number on the digital readout changed from 21 to 22, then she stared at the blue tag with the number 25 in her hand.

Apparently the first week of the month was the busy time at the driver’s license renewal office. She sighed. She still didn’t feel comfortable driving, but she supposed that would come with time. Living in the small-town South, it was necessary. There were no handy buses or trains to take you around town.

Deacon had offered to bring her but she had decided she needed some time alone. She glanced around the crowded lobby. Not that she was alone, by any means, but so far no one had recognized her. Basically she was alone. Everyone in the lobby was either scrolling on their cell phones or chatting with their neighbor in the next chair.

Since Cece had no cell phone and didn’t know either of the older men seated next to her, she just sat there. If she was very still maybe they wouldn’t notice her and strike up a conversation. It was human nature to ask about school, jobs, kids, the everyday sorts of things. Telling anyone she had spent her college years in prison and had no boyfriend, much less a husband and kids, was not exactly an acceptable icebreaker. The person asking would no doubt regret having done so.

Her mind drifted to the new images imprinted in her memory of her neighbor lingering in her kitchen, staring out the window over the sink, a steaming cup of coffee in his hand. She had stared at him a good long while before making her presence known this morning. The way the jeans he wore molded to his body. The way his shirt stretched over his shoulders. His shaggy brown hair curled around his collar.

Some part of her wondered why this stranger would go so far out of his way to help her. Did he have nothing better to do? Was he simply bored? She wanted him to be exactly what he appeared to be—the stranger next door who liked playing the role of Good Samaritan.

But another part of her worried that she was making a mistake. She didn’t really know him. Did not know his true motive.

Yet she wanted to know him...wanted to do things with him. She felt heat rush up her cheeks. She covertly glanced at the people around her as if she had said the words out loud rather than thought them.

It was true, though. She wanted to kiss him, to be kissed by him. She wanted him to touch her, to show her all the ways a man could pleasure a woman. Her one and only sexual experience had been awkward and bumbling with that jerk Ricky Olson. Just kissing Deacon on the cheek had made her pulse race.

That he genuinely seemed interested in helping her with her search for the truth just made the idea of—

“That’s you.”

Cece jumped. The man to her right gestured to the number she held and then to the display.

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