“No—” She stopped and frowned. “But I lost my key a couple weeks ago.” Oh God, was that how they’d accessed her house? Had someone else had a key to her home this entire time?
Her skin started to crawl.
Noah slipped an arm around her side. He didn’t say anything, but his strength and warmth were everything. She leaned into him, needing his support.
“Who would have had the opportunity to take the key?” Jesse asked.
She lifted a shoulder. “I realized it was gone after work one day. But I leave my bag in the office. I should have seen someone go in there.”
“Who takes over for you when you have breaks?”
“Cass. But she wouldn’t do this. Maybe she left the desk unattended at some point and someone went in there? That cabin doesn’t have bathrooms, so she could have stepped out. Or sometimes we have to take groups outside and show them how to get to their activities.”
That had to have been the case. Because this couldn’t be someone who worked at the park. Statistically speaking, she knew it was most likely the case, but she didn’t want to accept that.
“We can do a check on everyone who works there,” Jesse said, as Claudia wrote something down on her notepad.
“Has anything else happened before this?” Jesse asked.
Noah stiffened beside her. He was right. She should have told Jesse. “I’ve felt like someone’s been watching me. And when I got home a couple weeks ago, I thought I saw a shadow beside the house.”
“And on your run,” Noah added.
She nodded. “Last week, I went for a run along the trail before the park opened. I heard someone behind me.” Something else flickered in her memory. “Someone also texted me telling me to get out of town, but it was from an unknown number. And I woke up to find hairs in my bathroom sink that morning. Short, black ones. I thought they were from the plumber who’d been by, but maybe…”
Oh, Jesus. She reallywasgoing to be sick. Because did that mean they had accessed her bathroom while she’d been sleeping?
Deep breaths, Addie.
She lowered her head into her hands, and it was only the gentle rub of Noah’s hand across her back that kept her from completely losing it.
And what had been the intruders plan tonight? What would they have done if Noah hadn’t shown up?
Jesse crouched in front of her. “Addie, it sounds like you have someone stalking you. Maybe trying to scare you out of your home. Until we find out who it is, you shouldn’t be alone. Is there anywhere you can stay tonight?”
“She can stay with me.”
Addie looked up at Noah. She wasn’t sure if she was supposed to refuse his offer to help, or suggest she drive back to Bozeman. She did neither of those things. Because she wanted to stay with Noah. It was where she felt safest. “Thank you.”
CHAPTER 10
Addie stepped inside Noah’s home, only to stop abruptly.
Holy crap…it was beautiful. But not in a modern, sleek kind of way. It was an old-style craftsman home that had clearly been renovated.
“Everything okay?”
She glanced at Noah beside her. “Yeah. I just…you have a nice place.”
The corners of his lips lifted. “Expecting a bachelor pad with a gaming console in front of a sixty-five-inch TV?”
“Maybe.” Definitely. And this wasnotthat. It was warm and cozy and had character.
She stepped into the living room, where a fireplace centered the wall, with built-in shelving around it. Her gaze caught on the flames. “How is your fire on?”
“I texted my sister. She and Colt came by and put it on so the place would be warm when we got here.”
Thoughtful…another ridiculously attractive trait to add to his seemingly endless list.
