Moment in Time: A Novel by Suzanne Redfearn

Author:Suzanne Redfearn [Redfearn, Suzanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Published: 2022-03-07T16:00:00+00:00

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They are in a rented room over the general store, naked and entwined in each other’s arms. Mo texted Chloe to ask if she wanted to join them for dinner, and thankfully . . . and surprisingly . . . she said she already had dinner plans. She also assured her she was keeping an eye on Hazel and not to worry.

Mo’s emotions are all over the place—love, worry, sadness, fear, and an odd repulsion she cannot shake. While she was not the one Allen raped, the entire time Kyle made love to her, she could not stop thinking of Kora and Hazel and what they endured at Allen’s hands.

“I missed you,” Kyle says, leaning over to kiss her shoulder, seemingly oblivious to her strange mood.

“Mmmm,” she says in a low purr as her mind continues to spin. While she is overwhelmed he is here and that he dropped everything to be by her side, she’s also quite anxious for him to leave. Having him here complicates an already-impossible situation, and she feels like she’s walking a tightrope over an inferno. It’s one thing to be evasive over the phone when someone is thousands of miles away, and something else entirely when they are right here in front of you and looking at you like you are the moon and the earth and the stars.

In an hour, he will want to make love again. Always when he returns, his amorousness is nearly insatiable. They barely made it through the door before he was undressing her and backing her into the bed.

He flops onto his stomach and drapes his arm over her hips, and it’s all she can do not to shove the appendage away, agitation running through her she cannot explain. She likes things neat. She likes things orderly. And her life is falling apart.

“You okay?” Kyle asks sleepily.

“Uh-huh,” she lies. “I’m just going to brush my teeth.”

She slides from beneath him and hurries to the bathroom. After closing the door, she slides down the wood to the floor, pulls a towel from the rod, wraps it around herself, then drops her head to her knees.

She can’t believe this is happening. How could Allen have said it was her? It makes no sense. Yes, the post she made was awful, and she’s certain it pissed him off, but enough to lie to the police? Her eyes flick behind her lids, a feeling that she’s missing something niggling at the edges of her brain. She thinks of his expression when he greeted her at his office, glib, almost happy, as if he was glad she was there.

Spider willies crawl over her skin. Hate, she thinks. Even before that moment, he hated her. But why? In college, she barely knew him. She tries to think back to that time. Vaguely, she recalls a party and him hitting on her, then keeping at it even after she said she had a boyfriend. The memory is far away, not important . . . or at least, she didn’t think so at the time.

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