Beyond the Temptation Vol.1 by Aleatha Romig EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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MICHELLE’S BODY trembled as she hunched down, hidden among a row
of pine trees, her bare feet buried deep in the snow and her body wedged
between the heavy branches. It wasn’t only the temperature or her lack of
clothes—she’d run from the house in only her nightclothes and panties—
the trembling came with the growing terror that someone was out there, the
same someone who struck the match and sparked the flames now engulfing
the house where she’d been sleeping.
“Michelle. Shelly.”
The deep voice carried on the cold wind confirmed her fear, taunting
and stretching her nerves. Her breath caught, filling her lungs with chilled,
smoke-filled air as the person walking around the perimeter of what
remained of her father’s house came into view. While she hadn’t recognized
the voice, there was no mistaking the person calling out to her.
In the light of the flames, she saw the man’s boots stepping in and out of
the snow accumulation, his breath crystalizing in the air, the rifle in his
hand, and most importantly the badge on his heavy coat.
Closing her eyes, she wished for invisibility. It was a childish wish for a
grown woman, but there was something about losing your last remaining
parent that had a way of sending your thoughts into childish dreams.
“Michelle, I know you’re out here. Come on, honey. Denny wouldn’t
want you to freeze.”
A lump of emotion caught in her throat. Denny, or Dennis Holdcroft—
her father, would never again be concerned with Michelle or anyone. That
was undeniable. The other fact that solidified in her chest with steely
determination was that Sheriff Perkins didn’t want to save Michelle from
freezing.
His presence was due to what she’d witnessed.
If Michelle made it to morning alive, she would have a story to tell, one
that, no doubt, the sheriff wanted silenced.
When she opened her eyes against the harsh flames, she saw the
silhouette of a second man standing with and speaking to Sheriff Perkins.
With the crackling fire yards away and the rustling of the branches above,
Michelle couldn’t make out exactly what the two men were saying, nor did
she recognize the second man. It wasn’t that she knew every person in this
godforsaken town. Her father had moved to Iron Falls in the middle of
nowhere Massachusetts eight years ago after the passing of Michelle’s
mom.
Rarely did Michelle visit, yet she and her father spoke often via phone
or video calls.
Trying to ignore the pins and needles in her freezing feet, Michelle kept
watch on the two men. Every now and then, they would turn a full circle,
their heavy boots trampling the melting snow near the flames.
She thought back to fleeing the fire.
Would they be able to follow her prints in the snow?
Or had the heat of the blaze melted the evidence away?
As the two spoke, the sheriff maintained his grip of the long gun, the
heel butting against his shoulder. It was the second man who seemed more
animated, his head shaking and his hands gesturing.
If only she could hear their words.
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