Midnight Tan - Vampire Series Book 1 by Altas Opal

Author:Altas Opal [Opal, Altas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Published: 2017-12-03T05:00:00+00:00

Drive

Mark had bought a piece of land 30 minutes from Benton. It was bucolic with a lake and enough old growth trees to make it seem like a private mountain retreat. He had built a 4000 square foot home with gleaming hardwood floors, granite counters and all the pretty amenities that money could buy. She'd heard about all this through Jason, who'd always made their big holiday party every year. Shay, on the other hand, would stay home and roast marshmallows with her sister.

When she drove into view of the home, she could see why Jason never turned down an invitation. The house was gorgeous. From the stone accents and clear cedar siding, it screamed of quiet wealth. The driveway was limestone cobblestone, and as she turned off her car, she prayed it wouldn't leave it a big oil mark for someone to clean up.

She stepped out and saw that Mark had opened up the door of his home and she steeled herself. He still looked good. At 6'2, he was built like a linebacker. Broad shoulder complemented his lean waist. His chestnut brown hair only made his sky blue eyes more vivid. From the way her pulse picked up, you would never have thought that 11 years had passed.

"Shay?" He'd walked down the steps of the porch towards her.

"Hey Mark. I saw your mother yesterday at Peterson's, and I wanted to see if Emma had turned up? I brought you some cinnamon rolls too. Maisie made them. So I guarantee they taste wonderful."

She thrust the warm package into his hands.

With his free hand, he ran his fingers through his hair and pulled his ear. It was a nervous habit that she remembered. His face was tired so she didn't expect the news to be good. "We still haven't heard from her. I talked the sheriff this morning to put out a missing person's alert. And I'm going up to drive up to Portland to see if I can learn anything more."

"What about your girls?" Her gut clenched at the thought at Abby and Samantha losing their mother.

"My mom has them and will watch them until I get back. We haven't told them that she's missing."

"They don't think it’s strange that their mother hasn’t been home for the last two day?" Oh God, she wished she could have taken that back.

He coughed and looked at her strangely for a moment. "Not everyone knows this, but Emma and I haven't been seeing eye to eye for the last year. She's been distant and going to the city at least once a week for girl weekends with some friends from college. Things seemed to getting better though." He trailed off and looked to the house.

She was ashamed but grabbed at the tiniest spark of hope that she wasn't responsible for Emma's disappearance.

"Did you want to come in? I was just making some coffee, and we could have a cup."

"Yes." She blurted it out before her brain kicked in. What the hell? She wasn't some amazing investigator who was going to gain any clues from going inside the house.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.