A Little Harmless Fascination by Melissa Schroeder

Author:Melissa Schroeder
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-04-29T16:58:08+00:00

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Jillian returned from her run on the beach a little more exhausted than usual. It had been a few days since she’d ran, and truth was, she hadn’t been pushing herself during the last few days of her last book. The edits had gotten to her, along with the worry of Conner coming to stay with her. Now that he had been there a week, she knew she had been bad about getting out. Plus, add the sex to the equation and she was a little more worn out than she had expected.

As she approached her front door, she saw a package sitting on her doorstep. She frowned at it and then looked around the area. She saw Mick working on his bike.

"Hey, Mick have you seen anyone around here?"

He looked up from his bike. "No, love, sorry. I was out on the bike."

It was just a plain manila envelope with her name scrawled across the front of it. Gingerly, she picked it up between two fingers and shook it. It didn’t sound like there was a lethal toxin in it, she thought with grim humor. She opened her front door and kicked it shut behind her. She walked over to her kitchen and opened the envelope. Glossy pictures spilled out onto the table. Her heart stuttered to a stop.

They were pictures of her. On the beach, on her lanai, with Conner. Jesus, there was even one with her in her bra and panties. The front door opened and she whirled around, a scream lodging in her throat when she saw Conner. He was smiling until he saw her face. The happy look dissolved.

"What's wrong?" he asked and rushed to her.

She handed him the pictures. She watched his face harden even more, his eyes steel when he looked at her.

"Where did you get this?" he asked. His voice had gone cold. A chill ran down her spine, and she had to cross her arms to try to warm herself.

"It was sitting on the front step when I came back from a run."

He carefully set the pictures down on the table and pulled out his phone.

"You're the only one who touched it?"

She nodded.

“Did you see anyone, anyone at all?”

She shook her head. “Mick was here when I got home, but he’d been out on a ride.” Plopping down onto a chair, she shivered. "It's creepy."

"It's criminal is what it is.” He was already dialing a number before she could stop him. She didn’t want to, but there was a little part of her that worried. It would cause a ruckus, and she definitely didn't want it getting out to the public. She didn’t want anyone to see the sickness in the pictures.

He apparently read her expression. “Don’t even think about shrugging this off. Your name is on the front, and it wasn’t mailed. Someone knows you live here.”

She hesitated the barest of seconds then nodded. It was stupid not to have it checked out. Still, maybe they could keep it under wraps and she could keep her location secret.

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