The Tiger's Pregnant Bride by Bonnie Burrows

Author:Bonnie Burrows [Burrows, Bonnie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-02-21T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

The phone on the nightstand rang shrilly, yanking Olivia from her dreams. She reached for it, her eyes and mind still clouded with sleep. The display showed Grace’s number. She fumbled to answer it before voicemail picked up, practically yelling into the phone in excitement.

“Grace? Grace! Is that you?”

“Oh, Olivia. Yes it’s me.”

“Are you okay? We want to fly you out here to stay with us, at least until things calm down. How soon can you get to the airport?”

Grace looked around her tiny home, the boarded-up windows letting in tiny slivers of sunlight around the edges. Not one window in her home still had the glass in it. The last one had been smashed the week before, a large rock wrapped in paper landing feet from her while she sat in her recliner. The note was the same as the others, a profanity laced message of hate for the “shifter lover.” Grace was almost immune to the hate being thrown in her direction wherever she went. Almost.

Her call to police had ended abruptly. The dispatcher, driven by her hatred rather than her duty to the citizens of this town, had laughed at her over the phone. Sure, she’d send a police officer to take her statement. The disconnected call still buzzing in her ear, Grace had no illusions that the dispatcher had even logged her call, let alone sent someone to help her.

Tears were streaming down her face as she boarded up that final window, wondering what had become of the town she’d loved so much. The imposed curfew hadn’t stopped people from hitting the street at night to terrorize her and others like her. No one was safe anymore and hadn’t been in a long time.

“Grace?” Olivia’s worried voice pulled her out of her thoughts and back to reality, which wasn’t much better.

“I’m here. Sorry. Yes, I’ve packed a bag and I can be at the airport in about two hours. Can you get the ticket by then? I’m not checking anything. Everything I have that’s not destroyed and worth keeping fits in a carry-on.” She took a deep breath, trying to hold back the tears. It wouldn’t do her any good to fall apart when things were finally getting better. “I have what I need and I’m ready. I just have to get in my car and drive to the airport.”

“Are you going to be able to get there, through everything?”

“Yes. I know the news is making it out to be this crazy situation but during the day, it’s safe to be out. I have plenty of daylight left to get out of the area and to the airport. I can probably get there in one hour, but two hours, just to be safe.”

While Grace talked, Olivia pulled up the airline’s website on her tablet and typed in all Grace’s information. The soonest flight would work, but it would take her almost a day of traveling to get to her. But the next flight after that was hours later, and she didn’t want Grace sitting in danger for that long.

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