Between the Lines (RIVER VALLEY TEACHER’S LOUNGE #3) by Allie Marie EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Allie Marie
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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I HAVEN’T HAD nightmares in a long time.
In the beginning, they were always the same.
I’m standing on the edge of the driveway to my childhood home. And
even though the details don’t at all match the police report, that semi-truck
barrels straight into my dad’s sedan right in front of our home, where I’m
glued to the front lawn to watch. In that dream, the details don’t matter,
because for a split second in time, I have them back.
Now though, after years of keeping everything inside, they’ve morphed.
Sometimes, the nightmares come in the flashing headlights of that godforsaken semi, but sometimes, we’re back in the hospital. My brother
Callahan is strapped to the bed beside me. The needle they stick into my
back for the bone marrow is the size of a cannon.
Sometimes, he begs me to save him from the plague of his cancer.
Sometimes, he begs me to let him be with Mom and Dad, since I’m the
reason they’re gone anyway.
I’ve ignored those demons for so long, that sometimes I forget they
exist. If I believed in any of Freud’s theories, I might look to my beginning
of the school year stress to blame for this nightmare. Right now, I can’t
even focus on what to chalk it up to. My phone yanks me from a dead sleep
by my throat.
The last time a call had woken me like this, it had been to the news of
my parents’ death. At 5:07 in the morning, I fear the only other family I
have has been taken from me too. Especially when the number on my caller
ID is Newton PD.
Fear seizes me as Nathan Harding scratches up my throat before I can
even get my phone to my ear.
“Yeah, Mr. Harding, sorry to wake you but uh, we have one of your
employees here? She set off the alarm? We need an administrator to come
verify that she works here.”
I collapse onto my bed, my free hand cradling my forehead in relief as
my phone rests against my chest, my heart ticking against it in rapid, heavy
thuds. A chill washes over me as the sweat I’m drenched in cools. It isn’t
until I feel the call vibrating against my chest that I remember why I’m
awake in the first place.
“Sorry, what do you need from me?”
“We need you to come down to River Valley to verify that this woman
who set off the alarm is an employee of yours.”
“And I can’t do that over the phone?” I ask, glancing at the clock that is
still twenty minutes shy of my first-day-of-school alarm.
“Sorry, sir. We can’t.”
I sit up, wipe the amalgam of relief and exhaustion from my face, and
ask, “What did you say her name was again?”
“Claire Benson.”
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