My Blue Heaven: A Blue Mountain Novella (The Blue Mountain Series Book 2) by Francine Beaton

Author:Francine Beaton [Beaton, Francine]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2019-01-27T00:00:00+00:00

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Annie tried to hide her panic. She guessed she got good with it, but it wouldn’t last forever.

Marcus’ instincts hadn’t been wrong that night he brought her home after O’Malley’s. Annie’s were not wrong now. Someone had been watching her the previous week.

Saturday afternoon, she had a name. Kent Brodie.

Annie couldn’t miss him. She had been the first to leave the restaurant, followed by Meghan, Maddie and Jennifer. Kent was sitting in a car parked right in front of the restaurant, not trying to hide. He was just watching her and Maddie with an expressionless face.

The fear almost enveloped her. She wouldn’t be able to hide it from Maddie or her friends for long. Why had Kent come back now?

Her eyes left Kent’s cold stare, and she said goodbye to Meghan and Jennifer in a hurry. She grabbed Maddie’s hand to drag her to the car.

Annie had pretended that Kent’s presence hadn’t affected her, not in front of Meghan and Jennifer, but it did. It scared her so much that she didn’t want to go home. Luckily her car had faced in a different direction than Kent’s, and she drove around Stellenbosch, panicking about what she must do.

She had been driving around for a long time, and Maddie had fallen asleep. Then the realisation hit. She had been stupid. She should’ve gone straight back to Blue Mountain. Who said Kent was not waiting for her somewhere along the road to Blue Mountain? No, she couldn’t risk it and made a swift decision.

When she was sure Kent hadn’t followed her, she drove to Cape Town. She had stopped at a mall and contacted Kathleen Delahunt, her best friend. Kathleen had warned Annie against Kent, but when Annie arrived back in the country, proving Kathleen’s instincts right, her friend had never said, “I told you so.”

Annie had seen Kathleen often the last two years when Kathleen came to visit her brother Sean, the owner of O’Malley’s. She was Annie’s confidante and her biggest supporter. Kathleen was also the only one who knew about Annie’s summer fling with Marcus.

She was the only one Annie could think of at that moment, apart from Marcus and calling Marcus now was out of the question. She knew she would be safe at Kathleen’s as her friend had moved into a complex with state-of-the-art security. Kent could not find her there.

When Maddie woke up and found that they were still not home, she was at first confused. Annie reassured her, saying they were having an adventure, and because they first went shopping for clothes and toiletries, Maddie accepted it.

Shortly after Annie parked the car at Kathleen’s, the phone calls started. The first time Annie answered without checking the caller ID. She could feel the sudden chill when she heard Kent’s voice for the first time in over two years. He hadn’t changed at all.

Annie knew then he had followed her that week, and he had been at the school that morning, “You think you can play happy families with Marcus Walker now, Annie? Think again.

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