Kentucky Sunrise by Fern Michaels

Author:Fern Michaels
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2011-04-26T16:00:00+00:00

She drove around the block twice before she parked Zack’s battered maroon truck around the corner from the house she wanted to visit. Her watch told her it was 3:10 and she was bone tired. She set out on foot, the heavy bag dragging down her right shoulder.

It was probably a mistake to go there, but for some reason she couldn’t help herself. She wanted to see Nick Clay one last time. She’d made so many mistakes in her life that one more could hardly matter.

Willow took a moment to admire the house in the moonlight. It was an impressive structure, with white columns running across the front porch. Obviously, Nick Clay was doing very well for himself.

She walked around to the back of the house. It was easier to pick a lock on a kitchen or a garage door than to muddle around with dead bolts on front doors. Of course, if Nick had an alarm system, she was going to be SOL.

It was a quiet night, no dogs barking anywhere to announce her arrival, and for that she was thankful. She looked around to make sure there were no nocturnal neighbors sitting on their decks or patios. A moment later she almost jumped out of her skin when she felt something brush up against her leg. Sucking in her breath, she looked down to see an orange-and-yellow tabby cat. She purred loudly as her back arched. Willow scratched her behind the ears for a minute until she felt her breathing return to normal.

The tabby continued to purr as Willow fished inside her breast pocket for her new Visa card with the ten-thousand-dollar limit. She worked it quietly until she heard the snick of the lock. She smiled in triumph. People went all out with bolts, chain locks, and double locks on their front doors and forgot about the flimsy locks that were usually on kitchen doorways. She was glad she didn’t have to crack a pane of glass, a dead-sure giveaway on a quiet night.

Leading a life on the run had taught her a lot of things. She could break and enter using a credit card or a pick. She knew how to hot-wire a car in under three minutes, and she was so good at being a decoy in times of acute danger that she even amazed herself.

She bent down to put the credit card with her airline ticket inside the green bag. Her heart picked up an extra beat when she entered Nick’s kitchen and locked the door behind her. The tabby had followed her inside and looked at her forlornly. She waited in the darkness to get her bearings from the slivers of moonlight creeping through the blinds over the kitchen window, then set the green bag down in a corner so it was out of the way.

Even in the semidarkness she could tell the house was just a place to sleep and perhaps eat on rare occasions. There were no plants, no knickknacks, no flowers, just dark, bulky shapes of furniture.

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