Shadows at Dawn by Kat Martin

Author:Kat Martin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2019-07-18T11:52:56+00:00

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MINDY GRIPPED JAX’S ARM.

He looked down at her. “What is it?”

“I know this man. Ryan’s the guy I mentioned, the man I did some bookkeeping for a few months back. I can’t believe he was murdered.”

Jax took the paper out of her hand and skimmed the article, his dark brows drawing together. “It looks like this just happened. He was only missing five days before they found his body.” He glanced at her. “First men try to abduct you. Then your apartment is trashed. Now a guy you worked for turns up dead. I don’t like it.”

A chill swept through her. Mindy didn’t like it, either.

The nurse walked up just then. “Your mother is ready for you. She’s sitting out in the garden.”

They rose, and Jax walked her to the glass door that opened into the shady courtyard in the center of the complex.

“You want me to come with you?” he asked.

“My mother wouldn’t know if you were there or not. I won’t be long. I’ll meet you back in the lobby.” She left him there and followed Mary out into the sunshine. It was slightly breezy, the wind shifting through the branches of the trees.

“She’s had her breakfast,” Mary said, rolling the chair a little deeper into the shade beneath the tree. “Maybe you could finish the book you’ve been reading to her.”

Mindy nodded. Mary had set the book on the wrought-iron bench at the base of the tree, a Jane Austen novel, Emma. Mindy felt a pang. Her mother used to love romance novels. Sitting silently in the wheelchair, Ellen Stewart had aged far beyond her fifty years, her hair now white as snow, her skin deeply lined and nearly translucent.

“Hello, Mom.”

Her mother didn’t look up, didn’t even move, just stared straight out into the garden. A never-changing smile curved her lips. For an instant, Mindy’s eyes misted. It never got easier. Seeing the person her mother had become, trying not to think of the vibrant woman she had been before the accident ten years ago. Mindy had been a senior in high school at the time.

She took a deep breath and tried to focus on something more pleasant, the warm day, the soft breeze, the rustle of leaves on the branches overhead. Thoughts of Jax crept in. He was waiting for her in the lobby, there to keep her safe.

A calmness settled over her. Jax was there. She’d be okay. She took a deep breath, sat down on the wrought-iron bench, opened the book and started to read.

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