Rose by Elle Casey

Author:Elle Casey [Casey, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781542047074
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2018-07-04T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

A week passes, and I hear nothing from Greg. I’m a little disappointed, but not too surprised. After mulling it over, I’ve determined that when he goes to New York he becomes this other person—lawyer-Greg. Lawyer-Greg is focused, putting all his energy into his work and his dog. Maybe he even temporarily forgets about me and the kisses we shared. But I believe he’ll come back to the farm, and when he gets here, he’ll remember how well we get along and how much fun we have hanging out, and then we’ll pick up where we left off.

There’s a connection between us, no doubt about it. I just have to be patient and let things work out the way they will. Besides, I have plenty here to keep me busy. I’m in the back room feeding three baby birds who fell out of their nest, when the phone rings. Emerald just left, so there’s nobody out front to answer it, and I’m waiting on a call from the insurance company, who may or may not be paying for a replacement laptop. I quickly drop a blob of food into a baby’s mouth before I run to the desk to grab the phone before it stops ringing.

“Hello, animal clinic, this is Rose.”

I’m waiting impatiently, hoping whoever it is will hurry up and speak so that I can get back to the birds. I hate leaving them in the middle of a meal.

No answer. There’s nothing but a dead line.

“Hello? I can’t hear you. Are you there? Hello?”

Then the heavy breathing starts. Again.

My heart stops beating for a couple seconds, and I feel sick to my stomach. The panic that instantly takes over makes me angry; I’m furious that this person—whoever the sick bastard is—can get me so worked up by doing absolutely nothing but dialing and breathing. He has way too much power over me.

“Are you kidding me?!” I yell into the phone. And then I hang up and run back to be with the birds. I fill the eyedropper and start with the first baby. As I feed the next and the next, my mind calms with the monotonous task, and I can think clearly again without anger or fear.

There must be a reason someone would crank call me over and over. To scare me? Make me angry? To get his rocks off? This is the fourth anonymous call I’ve gotten in the last week. Every single time, it’s the same thing. He—I’m almost positive it’s a man—stays on the line for a few seconds being totally silent, and then he starts breathing like a weirdo until I hang up. You’d think he’d be bored with this game by now. I know I certainly am.

If he does it again, I’m going to call the police and tell them what’s going on. I don’t have a lot of hope that they’ll do anything, since a stolen laptop and a break-in don’t seem to rate any official follow-up, but I have to do something.

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