Resurrection in Mudbug by Jana Deleon

Author:Jana Deleon
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 1490490566
Publisher: Jana DeLeon
Published: 2013-06-10T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Jadyn blew straight past Mildred and went to her room. She knew the hotel owner was worried—could see it all over her face when she walked inside the hotel—but Jadyn couldn’t handle talking to anyone else right now. Her mind was too frazzled, her body weakened to the point of exhaustion. She was tired, frustrated, and angry. But the worst thing was she was scared.

Plenty of things in her past had caused her discomfort, but few had caused the kind of raw fear she’d felt today. In fact, only one such incident existed and she’d spent a good portion of her life trying to forget it. It wasn’t the way she liked to remember her father. But today, everything about that day had flooded back—the helplessness, the terror that her life could end at that moment.

When she’d chosen her profession, she’d known that it came with risks, but she’d never imagined the risks would be this great and certainly not occurring in such a short span of time. The job in Mudbug had seemed the perfect solution. Never would she have believed such horrible things could happen in this tiny, seemingly quiet town. She’d had other opportunities, but she’d taken the one she thought was the best fit. The one that gave her the opportunity to know Maryse, the family she’d never been allowed to spend time with.

It had seemed perfect.

She should have known better.

She shrugged off her clothes and stepped into the steamy shower, then grabbed her loofah and gel and started to scrub as if the exfoliate could strip all the negative thoughts and energy from her body. Ten minutes later, her skin tingled and didn’t contain a single spot of dry skin. Between the hot water and the scrubbing, she emerged from the shower with a medium-red hue from head to toe.

But for the first time since she’d stepped inside Duke’s cabin that morning, she felt clean and fresh. Her mind had cleared some but it hadn’t helped her put all the moving pieces together. The picture was still blurry and disconnected, but at least now she knew for sure it wasn’t her foggy thinking. The bottom line was, none of the things she knew made sense.

She threw on clothes and headed downstairs. Mildred would fret like a worried mother until Jadyn talked to her. It was an odd feeling for Jadyn, having an older woman looking out for her, but it was sorta nice in a slightly intrusive way. She supposed that’s how most daughters felt about their own mothers.

Mildred was in her office, staring at her computer screen, but the floating beach screensaver gave away her lack of activity. She looked up as soon as Jadyn entered the room, and Jadyn could see the worry lines on her face.

“I hear you’ve had an eventful day,” Mildred said.

Jadyn sighed and slid into a chair in front of the desk. “Helena told you.”

Mildred nodded. “She burst in here a couple of hours ago, ranting about deer hunting, shootings, and almost dying several times.

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