Do Me a Favor by Cathy Yardley EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Cathy Yardley
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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It was, unironically, a dark and stormy night.
Willa wasn’t sure how long the clattering had been going on, but by
now the sound was loud enough to be heard over the thunder. She
catapulted up in bed out of a dreamless sleep. Her heart pounded like a
taiko drum, fast and driving, and her breath was a captured gasp.
Her brain, on the other hand, snapped into crisis mode like a LEGO.
She grabbed her cell phone off the nightstand and tossed off the covers
in a well-practiced motion before she was consciously aware of it. Then
she sprinted forward, rushing to address . . . well, whatever needed
addressing.
There were a few problems with this approach, she quickly realized.
First: this wasn’t her house.
Or rather, it was her house. Now. But she’d only lived there a grand
total of three days, it had come furnished, and she wasn’t familiar with it
at all.
So she promptly stubbed her pinkie toe on the bed frame, which had
her barking out a curse as pain shot through her.
Second: that slight, pain-induced pause was just enough time to
remind her why she didn’t need to rush.
It’s not him.
He’s not here.
It’s okay.
It had been two years. It wasn’t like she wasn’t aware of her
husband’s absence. That she no longer had to be on high alert to
anything he might need.
But sometimes, especially on nights when she could finally beat
back the insomnia, a noise would trigger it all over again.
Muscle memory. The ghost of coping. The way everything
crystallized as she held the phone in her hand to check the blood sugar
monitoring app or to call 911 if need be. The cold clarity as she assessed:
What do I need to do?
She heard the clattering again, although it was difficult to recognize
over the raging storm. She turned on the hallway light and headed down
the stairs in her bare feet.
She had no idea if storms like this were the rule and not the
exception in the Pacific Northwest. Rain beat down on the roof in steady
sheets, and the windows rattled from the wind. Each bolt of lightning
preceding the thunder was like a blinding paparazzi flash, so seemingly
close she was surprised she couldn’t see the strike on the lawn.
The noise was coming from the adjoining garage, she realized,
straining to hear it. An . . . animal noise, maybe?
She grimaced as a recent conversation with her parents crossed her
mind.
Washington State? What if you get eaten by a bear?
Her mother had thrown out that plaintive question, just before Willa
had moved up to claim her great-aunt’s inheritance on this small island
in the middle of Puget Sound.
Of course, her mother had lived in
Southern California for most of her life, and in Vietnam before that. At
this point, anything outside of Irvine might as well have “Here Be
Dragons” written next to it on Google Maps as far as her mother was
concerned.
Willa trudged to the mudroom, listening at the door. The sounds
were louder. There was definitely something in the garage.
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