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- Author: Laura Hall
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THE PRESCHOOL PARKING lot was dark and empty, all the kids,
parents, and fellow teachers gone for the day. Just as I preferred it. No
people around me. No questions or forced small talk. And most importantly,
no emotions from colleagues or high-strung caregivers piercing my mind
like ice-tipped arrows.
I much preferred the company of three- and four-year-olds to their
parents. They had big emotions, of course, but those emotions were rarely
complex and never underlaid by a lifetime of convoluted and often
suppressed emotional triggers and turmoil.
Kids were exhausting in a different way—a way I could handle.
Buzzing energy and manic personalities. Unflagging curiosity. A total lack
of survival instinct and a willingness to put literally anything in their
mouths. They were pure in a way adults were not, their identities still
forming, their thoughts and emotions fleeting, bouncing off me instead of
sinking in.
As long as I was careful to minimize contact with adults, I was happy
with my job. It sure beat living in a cardboard box in a forest, far from the
seething emotional mess of humanity. Right now, however, a solitary life in
the wilderness didn’t sound so bad—I’d finished the last of my parentteacher meetings today. My skin ached. My hair hurt. My mind felt like
soggy toast. And it would take a few weeks to rid my brain of what Cecile’s
dad was thinking about while his wife was talking.
Nodding to the security officer whose car idled outside the school, I
thought longingly of a bubble bath and spending a peaceful, silent weekend
recuperating. I’d earned it.
A cool, familiar tingle against my senses yanked me from my thoughts.
Adrenaline tingled in my toes, flowing up my legs. My head whipped up,
gaze finding and narrowing on the tall, dark figure leaning against the trunk
of my car. The lot was well lit, but he’d found a spot thick with shadow.
There goes my bubble bath. And probably my life.
My heart banged around my rib cage. I glanced back at the school, but
the security car was gone. Not that he would have been able to help me,
anyway.
“Shit,” I whispered.
My heavy sigh took more than the air from my lungs. It robbed me of
something I’d allowed myself to embrace over the last nine years. Hope.
What flowed back in with oxygen was the bitter tang of resignation.
I’d always known this day would come.
I took a few slow steps toward the man. To my heightened senses, he
was a calm point in the storm. In every other respect, he was unwelcome. I
hadn’t seen Asher Castello in close to a decade, and there were very good
reasons why.
When I was close enough to see the small changes a decade had
wrought in his stoic features, I asked, “How did you find me?”
He glanced over my head. “Did you think you could come back to the
city and we wouldn’t know, Evie?”
No, I hadn’t really thought that. But time had made me complacent,
dulled the edges of my hyper-vigilance. And I’d been a month away from
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