Fragile by Shiloh Walker

Author:Shiloh Walker
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Suspense, Veterans, Social Workers, Love Stories
ISBN: 9780425225790
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Published: 2009-02-02T13:00:00+00:00

JUMPING at shadows . . . seemed she’d been doing a lot of that lately. Once more, Devon sat in her driveway, staring at the garage and wishing she’d gotten around to clearing it out enough that she could park in there. She just hated to do it. It was a small garage barely big enough for her car, and when she parked in there, the few times she had, she ended up overcome with a sense of claustrophobia that had her shaking and hyperventilating.

She couldn’t handle small spaces and the garage with a car in it was damn small.

Her nerves were already shot, and the thought of parking in that small garage was even more unnerving. But she couldn’t decide what was worse: getting out and walking up the sidewalk in the dark to her house, or parking in the coffin of a garage.

It wasn’t even dark now, and Luke was home, no reason to be so nervous, but she couldn’t move past it.

It had been one hell of a day, and she hadn’t even worked a full day.

Even aside from the troublesome case of Tim Wilder, her day had been crap. She’d talked to a mom who was encouraging her six-year-old to diet—a six-year-old who was small enough to still wear clothes off the toddler rack; she’d talked to three judges, two lawyers, one doctor, and one very insulting cop.

The doctor was Luke, naturally, and he’d been the highlight of her day. After he’d left, it had only gone downhill. Detective White had called three more times but Noelle had fielded two of the calls, and Devon had hung up on the detective the third time. Sooner or later, she’d have to talk to the cop again, but not today. Not until she cooled off.

At three o’clock, she’d gone to her boss and asked if she could cut out early. Normally, as heavy as her workload was, he wouldn’t have been happy, but thanks to the office grapevine, he had heard about what had happened and apparently understood the need to cut out for a while.

Cutting out wasn’t what she needed. What she needed was Luke. But now she couldn’t seem to make herself climb out of the car. Luke was home and probably waiting for her to call and tell him if she’d be leaving work at her regular time, and he’d probably growl at her for not letting him know that she was leaving early.

Fine. He could growl away, and then she could cuddle up against him, and he could make her forget about life, abused kids, crazy stalkers, and cruel parents. “Ain’t going to happen until you get your butt in the house,” she muttered.

She’d like nothing more than to shrug this whole mess off, forget all about it. Devon had decent instincts, and the few times there had been a client capable of causing serious problems, she’d known. When the threats, thankfully few, were serious, she’d known. If somebody had been following her home or watching her, she would know .

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