The Breath of Dawn by Kristen Heitzmann

Author:Kristen Heitzmann
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Single women—Fiction, FIC042060, Widowers—Fiction, Family secrets—Fiction, FIC042040, FIC042000, Man-woman relationships—Fiction
ISBN: 9781441260512
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Erin tried to look calm and brave when Morgan set Livie down and closed the cabin door.

“You remember what to do?”

She nodded.

“Drive slowly and carefully. If Markham’s out there, let him know it’s you.”

“Then why the hat?”

“You’ll see. Get the gas pumping, then go straight in to Rudy.”

She forced an even tone. “Okay.”

As she hurried through the blowing snow into the Maserati he’d left running, the tiny hairs on her neck rose. Could Markham see her? Every nerve pulled taut as she left Rick’s ranch on the one-lane road that only widened out near town. She passed Vera’s driveway about two thirds of the way down, a gravel ribbon walled by lodgepole pines. Did Markham lurk there?

Flesh creeping, she came to a stop at the intersection, then continued across the highway, parked at the pumps, and began to fuel. She hurried, heart hammering, over the roughly paved parking lot. Just before she entered, she slipped the wedding band off her finger and into her pocket. The fewer people outside Rick’s family who knew, the better.

Rudy met her inside the door with his shotgun and a rueful expression.

“Please don’t apologize. You didn’t know.” She hated that he felt bad in any way, hated that she’d dragged him and the others into her trouble. But with fear still twitching up her back, she said, “Could we wait behind the counter until Morgan gets here?”

“He’s not here?” He pressed his hands to his hips. “But that’s his car.”

“He has the other one.”

Rudy’s jaw fell slack. “He let you drive the Maserati?”

She should have recognized a shrine. Ducking past when he unlocked the hatch, she took in the relative shelter of the mostly glass counter. A barrier at least.

Beside her, Rudy smelled like a Slim Jim, and its long plastic sleeve clung to the side of the trash can. “You want to get down and hide?”

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