Abe wouldn’t have his hearing aids in so he likely wouldn’t be awake.
Rushing back, she grabbed her phone and put through a call to the sheriff’s office.
The dispatcher promised to send someone out immediately and she settled down on the floor with Horse, trying to keep him calm.
She should go and check on Abe, except she was scared to leave.
She needed to get his number so she could call him.
I want Eli and Kellan.
No, no. It had been three days since the storm. She’d spent the first day embarrassed. Then the next day upset that they’d left town without telling her. Which was ridiculous.
And now she missed them?
What was wrong with her?
The fact that they’d left town the next day had made her wonder if she’d just imagined those feelings between them.
What experience did she have with men, after all?
Absolutely none.
She’d had two fiancés and hadn’t even kissed them properly. She wasn’t a virgin, but that had been a big mistake. She’d slept with this guy when she was seventeen and he’d turned out to be a total asshole. He’d taken photos of her without her permission and then spread them around her school.
It had been a complete, humiliating nightmare.
After that, she hadn’t wanted to even kiss another guy.
The noises died off and the lights stopped. Horse was trembling and trying to get into her lap. The big baby didn’t realize that he weighed sixty-five pounds and wasn’t a lapdog.
She heard a car pull up and realized she was just in a thin dressing gown. But before she could rush into the bedroom and change there was a knock on the door.
“Shit,” she muttered to Horse who was growling. She grabbed his lead and attached it to his collar before opening the door.
Oh. Great.
Deputy Doofus was here.
That wasn’t nice.
She really had to give him the benefit of the doubt.
“Good evening, Arabella.”
“Hi, Deputy.”
“Please, call me Zane.” He smiled but it looked kind of smarmy.
Benefit of the doubt.
“Right, Zane. Sorry to disturb you,” she said.
“You could never disturb me,” he replied.
Urgh.
Yep. He was definitely giving her a creepy vibe.
