Worth the Risk (Pine Valley Book 1) by Heather B. Moore

Author:Heather B. Moore [Moore, Heather B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Mirror Press
Published: 2018-02-13T16:00:00+00:00

Jeff had been dead asleep when his phone rang. Apparently the crazy week had finally caught up with him. It took him a few seconds to clear the fog from his brain and register that Alicia was calling him. He glanced at the digital clock on his bed: 11:00 p.m.

“Hello?” he said, his voice hoarse with sleep. He cleared his throat. “Alicia?”

“Jeff?”

In that one word, he heard the distress in her voice. He sat up, scrubbing a hand through his hair. “Are you okay?”

“My mom’s in jail,” she said in a trembling voice.

It took several seconds for him to process what she’d said. “Jail? What happened?” And then in a tearful voice, she told him about her mom not being home, and then calling from the jail and saying she’d been arrested. Jeff understood about half of what she said through her crying.

“Where are you?” Jeff asked, rising from the bed and looking for his shoes. He’d fallen asleep in his clothes. “I’ll meet you.”

“I’m at the gas station by my neighborhood. I was trying to get some money, but my bank won’t let me pull out more than three hundred at a time, and my paycheck is still pending.”

Jeff stilled. “How much is the bail?”

“Six twenty-five, exact change. I have three hundred five right now.”

“Okay.” He exhaled. “I’ll bring the rest and pick you up at your house.”

Her voice sounded very small when she said, “All right.”

“Alicia, it will be fine, I promise. Go home and wait for me there. I’m on my way.” When he hung up with Alicia, he pulled on his shoes, grabbed his wallet and coat, then headed into the garage. He felt like he was in a dream. But this was no dream. Alicia needed his help.

As he drove, he could only hope that Mrs. Waters would learn her lesson, that she would use this experience and start to change. On the other hand, he was mad that a neighbor called the cops instead of just talking to her—at least, he assumed that’s what had happened. People didn’t talk to each other nowadays. They either texted to communicate or just called the cops. This was a sixty-year-old mentally ill woman, for heaven’s sake.

Jeff was tempted to call Dawson on the way, but then he changed his mind. Jeff wouldn’t know all the answers to the questions Dawson was likely to ask. Tonight, he’d focus on helping Alicia and her mom, and tomorrow they could figure out what the damage was and how to fix it.

Alicia was standing on the porch when he pulled up, shivering in her coat. She was still wearing high heels—probably from work. And she looked beautiful in a sort of forlorn, tragic way.

Jeff jumped out of the SUV, his heart going out to her. He strode toward her as she stepped off the porch. “Ready?”

She nodded, and he could see her swollen eyes from the light of the porch.

“Hey, we’ll get her out of there and figure out what to do.

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