Mind Tricks by Adrianne Wood

Author:Adrianne Wood [Wood, Adrianne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic suspense, paranormal romance, pet psychic, romance, Maine, contemporary romance
Publisher: Bramble Cat
Published: 2012-09-14T05:00:00+00:00

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Ian, his blue eyes concerned, slid another cup of coffee into her hands. It was her fourth. If she drank it, she’d probably bounce straight from extremely worried to maniacally jittery. But the flavor was familiar and reassuring, and she swallowed almost a third of the coffee before she pushed the mug away.

“All right. First things first.” She took a deep breath, gave the mug another little shove so that she’d have to lean forward a good distance to retrieve it again, and pulled a pad of paper and a pen in front of her. “We have to contact Brutus’s owners to let them know he’s missing.” That made her stomach twist like a snake in a bag. Once word got out that a dog had gone missing from her kennels, business would drop like a stone. Gritting her teeth, she wrote down Phone parents.

“What about calling the police?” Ian asked.

Of course. And given that she now knew Jake had killed Ginny, she should be seizing this chance to bring the police out to the house—and show Jake that they would be keeping an eye on her. But somehow she couldn’t rally the enthusiasm and relief she knew she should feel. “Do the police even handle stuff like this? What if Brutus merely escaped again?” That was wishful thinking, she knew. If Brutus had escaped, he’d been considerate enough to shut the door after him.

“I think the police should still be told. If someone finds Brutus wandering down a road, they might call the police to let them know. And if Brutus was taken, that’s stealing, right?”

“Right.” She scribbled Call police. Also, Brutus’s owners would probably want her to bring in as much assistance as possible.

Ian opened his mouth to say something, hesitated, inhaled as if to start speaking, and then shut his mouth again.

“What?” Emma demanded.

“This sounds crazy. Paranoid.”

“What?” Paranoid was exactly the frame of mind she was in.

“Maybe Brutus didn’t escape from the leash line a few days ago. Maybe he’d been set free by someone. And that same person set him free last night, too. Do you lock your doors?”

“This is Maine, not New York City.”

“I guess that means no.”

Emma reached for her coffee mug before thinking better of it. She was already too snappish. “Yes, you’re right: I don’t lock my doors.” Even after her disastrous night with Jake, it hadn’t even crossed her mind. What a ninny. Too dumb to live. “Anyone could have opened the door to set Brutus free last night.” And anyone could have unclipped him from the leash line the day before. “But Brutus had dug those holes in his kennel, not a person.”

“Sure, he’s always keen to escape. But how could he have gotten off that leash? Or opened a door last night and then closed it again after himself?”

She didn’t want to admit it could be true, because that would mean someone had been watching her house—had been watching her—for days now. Whether that someone was a goofy

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