Harlequin Romantic Suspense February 2021 Box Set by Lisa Childs

Author:Lisa Childs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 2

In an eyeblink, everything changed. Confusion filled Kerri. Snowy was no longer lying beside her. His head rested on her thigh. What the…?

The faces she had been looking at had all changed and moved. Boredom was gone. Some of the students were standing. What was going on? Had something happened?

A voice spoke from beside her. “Ms. Addison? You okay?”

She looked up and saw the young woman standing beside her. Hadn’t the student been sitting in a desk directly in front of her, chewing on a stylus? When had she moved?

“What happened?” she asked instinctively.

Then the pieces began to assemble into the new picture. She’d had a seizure. She was experiencing the confusion that always followed if things had changed. The confusion would pass quickly.

The young woman, Alice, she remembered, answered. “You stopped talking right in the middle of a sentence and you got this funny look. We waited, but then you didn’t answer when we called to you…”

Kerri saw Alice gnaw her lower lip uncertainly.

“I’m okay,” she replied. “Just give me a moment, then I’ll explain.”

Alice nodded and returned to her desk. The others resumed sitting.

Their faces had changed, Kerri realized. Where before they’d been engaged or bored, depending, now they were all looking uneasy.

“I should have told you about this on the first day of class,” she said slowly, gathering her thoughts, wishing the seizure hadn’t scattered them like autumn leaves. She’d be back to normal any second now, but her new normal wasn’t exactly comforting to her.

“Told us what?” another student, Jason, asked.

How much to tell them? As little as possible, she decided. She didn’t want to become the discussion.

“I have seizures,” she answered. “What you just saw…well, that was the kind I have. I lose touch, sometimes for only a few seconds, sometimes for a minute or two, and when I come out of it I feel a bit confused. Especially if things have moved around. Well, y’all did a lot of moving.”

That drew forth a bit of laughter and some of the tension seemed to seep from the room. There was new interest in those faces and she wondered how much she’d have to tell them. She decided to head it off at the pass.

“That’s why I have Snowy with me. He can alert me right before it happens, so I don’t freeze in traffic or something. It was kind of you all not to ask why I have a service dog.”

“Not our business,” one of the other young women said. “We were just worried about you. Your dog poked your leg a few times, then suddenly you stopped talking.”

“Weird, huh?” she said. “Well, that’s as bad as it gets. It doesn’t happen all the time, though. Think you guys can deal?”

They all agreed they could. No doubt in any of their voices.

“Then let’s continue class. Where was I?”

Alice spoke. “You were telling us about the Supreme Court decision that allows cops to be videotaped while on the job.”

“Yes. That’s undoubtedly why you see so much footage online now.

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