Take My Dare by J. Kenner

Author:J. Kenner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction
Publisher: J. Kenner
Published: 2016-10-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

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I’m pacing so much that it’s a good thing we have tile in the downstairs rooms, because if there was carpet I’d have worn a hole in it.

The purse with the photos is on the kitchen table, and I’m going back and forth between the kitchen and the great room, hoping the motion will calm my nerves. Trying to convince myself not to call Jackson.

I’d told him I could handle this, and I’d meant it. But now I’m home. I’m alone. And it’s all just weighing down on me.

I don’t want to call him back, because I know he’ll drop everything and come to me. But I have to talk, and so I dial Cass, then curse when I get her voice mail. “Something happened. I’m okay. Or I’m not. I don’t know. Anyway, just call when you can.”

I end the call, and just seconds later, the doorbell chimes. For a second, I actually think it’s Cass, but that idiotic thought is immediately replaced with a more worrisome one—that my visitor is the person who left the photos.

I calm almost immediately, though. Only friends and family on our permanent list can enter the neighborhood without being announced. Even messengers have to be cleared through. I don’t know who it is. But I can’t imagine it’s my tormenter. And though I’m really not in the mood for company, since I’d sent Stella to the park with the kids, I head to the front hall to answer the door.

It’s Wyatt, and he’s standing on the front step looking so agitated that my concern for him almost overshadows my own fears.

“What’s wrong?” I ask, then immediately backtrack to, “Come in, come in. Is something wrong? Is it Jackson?”

“No,” he says, looking stiff and awkward as he comes inside. “I mean, he’s upset. After your call …”

He trails off, and I look sharply at him. “What did he say?”

“Just that Reed’s reaching out from the grave. I’m sure he figures I’ll assume it’s about the movie. But Syl,” he continues, his voice thin, “I don’t think it’s about the movie. I think it’s about those pictures of you.”

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