River Wolf by Heather Long

Author:Heather Long [Long, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-311-15463-7
Publisher: Heather Long

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I can’t answer the question. Not without lying to you. The words chased around in circles through her mind like a dog fixated on its tail. She couldn’t not hear them over and over. On the one hand, the honesty in his very direct request impressed her. The easiest thing would have been to tell a lie, yet Brett hadn’t told her one. He’d simply said he couldn’t answer the question without lying. Why not the truth? Maybe because it’s none of my business.

Or maybe because whatever he would tell me I wouldn’t believe? They hadn’t really been able to finish the conversation. His phone rang, and he’d had exchanged five words with the person on the other end—when, where are you and how many. Whatever the answers were, he’d left immediately after giving her a gentle caress against her cheek. He was gone, leaving her to drink her coffee alone on the porch and mull over the secrets and mysteries immersing them.

She should probably go inside, check what laundry she had so she could ask to borrow his washing machine. Or maybe she should take her car to the local main street—surely they had a Laundromat around. I haven’t left his house without him in five days… The scandalous thought skated through her mind. She hadn’t even returned to her vehicle for anything other than her phone charger.

Reminded, she pulled the phone from her back pocket and studied the screen. She’d forgotten to charge it for four days, and she hadn’t missed having it at all. Most people her age were absolutely tethered by technology. Hell, even Brett was. She’d actually ventured into his office once while he’d been on a Skype conference call. He had two phones in his office, a desktop, a laptop, a printer, a fax machine and what looked like some giant black box server device not to mention the cell phone he always had within reach.

Stroking her thumb across the screen, she turned the phone on and unlocked it. A red five stared up at her from the phone app. Most of the people she knew grew up with cell phones, she hadn’t owned one prior to a couple of years before. Her mother disliked most technology so they hadn’t had anything outside of a regular television and old fashioned rotary landline, and that only for emergencies.

She wasn’t Amish, but sometimes she imagined she wasn’t far off. Touching the phone icon, she opened the messages and stared at the numbers. The two calls from Miranda touched her heart. One from a number she didn’t recognize, one from her probation officer, and the last from her mother’s landline number.

The taut emotion squeezing her over Miranda calling abandoned her for a chill at her mother’s number. Her mother didn’t use the phone except for emergencies. Pressing the message to play, she put the phone to her ear.

The words were Korean, but she understood them. It had been her first language and the only one used at home with her mother unless her father was present.

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