Noah's Sweetheart & Plain Peril by Rebecca Kertz

Author:Rebecca Kertz
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488024924
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWO

Hannah tossed and turned on a small cot in the first-floor bedroom of her childhood home, now her sister’s home. Even the white noise of the crickets couldn’t lull her to sleep, not after the news she had received from Sheriff Maxwell. He had left her with a warning to be careful, his cell phone number and a promise to have his officers patrol her property.

Small consolation in the dead of night in the middle of nowhere.

Not even knowing that her mother slept nearby in the adjacent dawdy haus could calm her nerves.

The small bedroom grew stifling, yet she still couldn’t bring herself to move to her sister’s more spacious bedroom upstairs. Hannah slipped out of bed and slid the window open. She dismissed her silly fears that someone would climb through her window because if someone really wanted to get in, all they had to do was stroll through the front door. It didn’t have a lock.

Hannah flopped down on the cot and sighed. She pulled the sheet up to her chin and stared toward the open bedroom door, imagining the shapes morphing into an intruder, namely John. She was driving herself crazy. Her nerves felt like they were jacked on too much caffeine.

Had John really killed her sister? The sheriff had warned her they didn’t have enough evidence to prove John had been involved. But still…

Hannah struggled to quiet her mind with prayer and the hope of sleep. The chirping crickets filled her ears, and she realized the noise could also mask footsteps on creaking floorboards.

Tingles of dread crept up her spine.

“You’re being silly. You lived in the city and never were this afraid,” she whispered into the night.

You never tried to fall asleep with the knowledge your sister had been murdered.

Sitting up, she leaned against the wall and tipped her head back. The piece of snitz pie she had eaten before bed didn’t seem like such a good idea. She was making herself sick with anxiety.

Just when her rational side had talked her irrational side out of a full-blown panic attack, the blaring of a car alarm sliced through the cacophony of chirping. Hannah bolted upright and snapped her attention toward the window. Her car was parked behind the barn and covered with a tarp.

She pressed a hand to her thumping chest and drew in deep breaths.

The alarm will turn off by itself. It will turn off by itself.

How many times had a car alarm gone off in the city? Especially on her street filled with college students and their varying schedules. Car alarms were sensitive. An animal probably scampered across the tarp. Or a tree branch dropped on it. Or…or…

No, it did not mean someone was out there waiting for her. Her apprehension grew with the strident pulsing of the alarm. She drew in another deep breath through her nose and released it.

Hannah threw back the sheet and climbed out of bed. She pushed back her shoulders. I’m being ridiculous.

She grabbed her cell phone from

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