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Chapters (87)
  1. TITLE PAGE
  2. COPYRIGHT
  3. DEDICATION
  4. CONTENTS
  5. START READING
  6. CHAPTER ONE
  7. CHAPTER TWO
  8. CHAPTER THREE
  9. CHAPTER FOUR
  10. CHAPTER FIVE
  11. CHAPTER SIX
  12. CHAPTER SEVEN
  13. CHAPTER EIGHT
  14. CHAPTER NINE
  15. CHAPTER TEN
  16. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  17. CHAPTER TWELVE
  18. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  19. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  20. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  21. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  22. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  23. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  24. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  34. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  43. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  44. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  45. CHAPTER FORTY
  46. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  47. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  48. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  49. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
  50. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
  51. CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
  52. CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
  53. CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
  54. CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
  55. CHAPTER FIFTY
  56. CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE
  57. CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO
  58. CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE
  59. CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR
  60. CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE
  61. CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX
  62. CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN
  63. CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT
  64. CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE
  65. CHAPTER SIXTY
  66. CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE
  67. CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO
  68. CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE
  69. CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR
  70. CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE
  71. CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX
  72. CHAPTER SIXTY-SEVEN
  73. CHAPTER SIXTY-EIGHT
  74. CHAPTER SIXTY-NINE
  75. CHAPTER SEVENTY
  76. CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE
  77. CHAPTER SEVENTY-TWO
  78. CHAPTER SEVENTY-THREE
  79. CHAPTER SEVENTY-FOUR
  80. CHAPTER SEVENTY-FIVE
  81. CHAPTER SEVENTY-SIX
  82. CHAPTER SEVENTY-SEVEN
  83. CHAPTER SEVENTY-EIGHT
  84. CHAPTER SEVENTY-NINE
  85. CHAPTER EIGHTY
  86. EPILOGUE
  87. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

He’s trying to sound casual. I don’t push. Deep down, the alarm bells sound louder. I try to mute them. I really do.

Adam saved me.

“What would you do if she had been involved?” I ask him. “What would you say about that?”

Adam blinks. “I guess I would say, ‘Lock her up and make sure she never gets out.’ But she didn’t. She’s not that kind of a woman. She’s brilliant. Kind. Very giving.”

“Sounds like you’ve gotten to like her.”

“Well, honestly, Lee,” he says, “I barely know her.”

His words suddenly feel like a lie, but this is Adam Warner. He’s not a liar. He wouldn’t know how to lie if someone taught him.

I am sure of that.

CHAPTER SEVENTY-THREE

CHAPTER SEVENTY-THREE

ADAM

The first time I saw Kristen Moss was when she knocked on our door one Sunday afternoon. I’d been watching football on TV, and the Seahawks were losing. Big-time. Sophie, as she had been far too much at that time, was gone. I was ready for a distraction. I hated seeing my team go down in flames. Again. I was a winner. So of course I expected the Hawks to be winners too.

I wouldn’t have opened the door, but seeing Kristen through the peephole, I gave the knob a turn. She was pretty. Easy on the eyes. No doubt about that. If she had been selling something, I might even have been a buyer.

Looking back now, I would have been a lot better off if it actually had been a kid selling chocolate bars for the school band, or even a pair of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

“Adam Warner?” she asked in that way people do when they know exactly who you are and think that you should know them as well. I looked her over, but nothing registered. Maybe we’d talked at a conference? She was too beautiful for the accounting pool at SkyAero, that’s for sure. I’d have kept my eye on her.

“Sorry. Have we met?”

“No,” she said. “I know your wife. Is she home?”

I opened the door a little wider. “No. Sophie’s out running errands with our daughter. Might be home in an hour. You want to wait . . . ?” I let the last word hang out in the breeze, an invitation for her to tell me her name.

“Kristen,” she says. “Kristen Moss. You might know my husband, Connor.”