Never Miss by Melissa Koslin

Author:Melissa Koslin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romantic Suspense;Romantic suspense fiction | Christian fiction;FIC042060;FIC042040;FIC027110
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2021-03-22T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty-five

KADANCE NEVER THOUGHT she’d have to discuss James with another living person. It was hard enough living with the memories inside her own head, let alone verbalizing them. But she had to.

“You don’t have to tell me anything personal,” Lyndon said.

“It’s all personal with James.”

Lyndon quietly waited.

“He’s how I heard about VPE,” she finally said. “Though I didn’t know the extent of the movement. He explained it as simply choosing not to have children to help reduce the population. I’d assumed that people who followed the movement and wanted families could simply adopt, which sounded honorable to me.”

“But somewhere along the way you realized perhaps it wasn’t as honorable as he’d described because you discovered he wasn’t honorable either?”

If there was one thing she could count on Lyndon to do, it was read between the lines. “Yes.”

He again quietly waited.

She sat straighter in her seat and tried to figure out how to start her explanation.

“Why don’t we stop for a little while,” he said.

“We need to get to DC.”

“It’ll take, what, five to six hours from here? It’ll be too late to do anything or talk to anyone.”

They were passing through a small town on a rural highway. There wasn’t much—just a couple of abandoned buildings, a Dollar General, and a Subway. She pulled off into the empty parking lot of a building with boarded windows and crumbling brick facade. Gravel crunched under the tires as the car came to a stop.

“I need a walk.” Kadance opened her door and stepped out. Then she opened the back door and let Mac jump down. She squatted in front of him and petted his soft fur. “Want to run around a little bit?” she asked him. “There’s some grass over there.”

He meowed.

“I swear he understands you,” Lyndon said.

“He does.” She locked the car, then picked Mac up and carried him to an overgrown grassy lot next to the gravel area. She set him down in the grass, and he sprinted off after a bird.

Lyndon followed her. “Looks like this used to be an orchard.” He looked around at the trees, some dead, some overgrown.

“I bet it’s still pretty in the spring.”

There was a smile in his eyes before he looked away, toward Mac running around like a nut. She’d caught expressions like that in Lyndon’s eyes before, but she wasn’t entirely sure what they meant. Which was frustrating.

She ambled slowly around the lot, and Lyndon stayed by her side.

She took a deep breath. “I was in a relationship with James, but he wasn’t who I thought he was.”

“Your only relationship.”

She glanced over at him and wanted to ask why he thought that, but then she admonished herself for caring. “We met not long after I left my family. He kept trying to strike up conversations with me.”

“So, you weren’t living like you are now—moving around, not following any patterns.”

“Not yet. I thought using a fake ID and going someplace random that I didn’t have any connection to would be enough. I liked this little farmer’s market.

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