Plain Retribution by Dana R. Lynn

Author:Dana R. Lynn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Love Inspired Suspense
Published: 2017-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

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The next morning, the nurse was just carrying away Rebecca’s half-eaten breakfast tray when the door opened. Rebecca’s eyes shot wide when her boss, April, entered the room, her face pale and drawn. Normally, April was very well put together. This morning, she was without makeup and her hair had been slapped up in a messy bun. She approached the bed, taking in Rebecca and her surroundings. As she stopped at the bed, she pulled out her phone and tapped a message, then showed it to Rebecca.

R U ok? I just saw Tracy. She’ll be fine.

Rebecca took the phone and tapped a message back. I’m fine. I will be going home soon.

April’s lips firmed as she read the message. And then she typed a response. I heard about your roommate. I’m so sorry. And Tracy said you were attacked the other night after closing the store. What’s going on?

Good question. How to answer it.

She could see Miles’s image in her mind, signing to her to be careful, not to give away too much information. It wasn’t that she didn’t trust April, but her innocent conversation with Tracy, revealing that she was staying with Jess, had shown her it was safer to be vague. The police are looking into it. I don’t know too much more than that.

Well, that was true, wasn’t it? She really didn’t know too much more. Other than the same group of girls she’d been abducted with years before were being hunted down, one by one. But April didn’t know anything about that event. And, she realized, she didn’t want her to. Didn’t want to see her boss start to view her as a victim, to look at her with pity.

Rebecca kept the past to herself. And when April finally left after a few awkward moments, she was relieved.

The rest of the day dragged on. Rebecca hated not being able to get to church, so she comforted herself with watching a service on the TV and praying.

The next morning, she was informed that she was being released.

Rebecca should have been overjoyed. After all, she hated hospitals. She’d been stuck in one for three days after the abduction, needing constant medical care after being dehydrated and brutally beaten. It wasn’t a pleasant memory.

She wasn’t happy to be leaving the hospital this time, though. In fact, she was terrified.

She had expected Miles to be here when she was released. But he wasn’t. She had no idea where he was. And that made her feel distinctly uneasy. In her mind, she replayed the conversation they had had the night before. He hadn’t mentioned being here when she was released. She’d just assumed. Although, they didn’t know she would be sprung so quickly.

The nurse entered the room pushing a VRI, a video remote interpreting system. It was a portable device used by hospitals and legal offices to connect with certified interpreters. Personally, Rebecca preferred to have an interpreter physically in the same room. If she needed to go to

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