Love You Madly by Ashlee Mallory

Author:Ashlee Mallory [Mallory, Ashlee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: military, Select Suspense, Entangled, Ashlee Mallory, Love You Madly, romance serires, You Again, Romance
ISBN: 9781943336425
Amazon: B00Y7WCDYI
Barnesnoble: B00Y7WCDYI
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-06-11T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

It was close to two in the morning before Meems pulled her Jeep into Meredith’s driveway to drop them off. With her car stolen and Bonnie probably halfway to Mexico, Travis had called the irritatingly adorable and brilliant computer genius to pick them up, certain that she would probably be awake and willing to help.

Meredith nearly had to bite off her tongue to stop from asking him how he knew the hours the woman kept. It wasn’t her business. He could take up with whomever he wanted.

At least, that was the lie she was telling herself.

Fortunately, through her fatigue, disappointment, and irrational jealousy, Meredith had the wherewithal not to take it all out on the woman. Even when every instinct begged her to snap when Meems had asked the ridiculous question of how Meredith was feeling. Instead, she’d managed to smile and politely respond that she’d been better as she slipped in the backseat, even though that had to qualify as the world’s biggest understatement.

With Travis sitting shotgun, he and Meems spent the drive home discussing the property records he wanted her to research to see if there was any connection between the owners of the club and the house. Maybe see if the owners had any other property in their name that might lead them to where Darcy was being kept. But Meredith was barely listening to them. She was too exhausted and numb, the taste of disappointment still bitter in her mouth.

She had been so certain they were going to find Darcy tonight. Bring her home.

With Meems’s promise to get started right away, Travis and Meredith made their way to her front door and inside.

Meredith’s damp, wrinkled clothes clung to her skin, and she clenched her teeth from the chill in the house thanks to the low setting she’d left the thermostat on this morning. She had to get out of her clothes. Shower and warm up.

Wash away the horror from that horrible house.

“I’m going to shower,” she said and slowly headed up the stairs. Defeat making her feet feel like they each weighed fifty pounds.

Underneath the showerhead a few minutes later, she closed her eyes. Letting the water run down her face, along her back, washing away the filth and the stench of death that clung to her. Soothing her with its constant rhythm.

She didn’t know how long she stood under there, but Travis’s knock on the door pulled her out of whatever trance she’d been in.

“You okay?” he called.

He opened the door when she didn’t immediately respond, something she’d normally rail at him for. Right now, she didn’t have the energy. She was still considering his question.

Was she okay?

The question touched on something that she’d been ignoring for too long.

No. She sure as hell wasn’t okay.

Even before Darcy had stepped into that club and disappeared, throwing Meredith’s carefully ordered life into chaos, she hadn’t been okay.

No, she’d been lonely. And if she was honest, filled with self-loathing. Unable to stop the course her life had taken, starting as far back as… God.

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