“Is there something new with the case?”

“I have something you need to see.”

Fifteen minutes later, Jack opened the door to the tall, blond cop, and they shook hands.

“What’ve you got there?” He nodded at the disk in Curtis’s hand.

“I was finally able to get a copy of the security video from the mall parking lot. I think you need to see it, but I have to warn you, it’s tough to watch.”

Jack swallowed hard and gestured for Curtis to follow him into the family room. He fed the disk into the DVD player, turned on the television, and watched in stunned silence as his daughters jumped out of the way of the speeding car and then turned to scream at their mother to do the same. They’d had time to turn and scream. Clare had time to move, but she didn’t. She stood there and let the car hit her as her horrified daughters looked on.

“I just don’t understand,” Jack whispered as he watched it a second time. “Why in the world would she do that?”

“Can you, um, think of any reason why she’d want to end her life?”

“Of course not,” he said, but after his conversation with Jill he wasn’t so sure anymore. “She’d never do that, especially in front of her children. They were her whole world.”

“I’m sorry. I don’t mean to imply—”

“That my wife was suicidal?”

“It’s just, well… Why didn’t she move?”

Crushed by yet another wave of helpless despair, Jack shook his head. “I don’t know.”

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Other Contemporary Romances Available from Marie Force:

The Treading Water Series

Book 1: Treading Water

Book 2: Marking Time

Book 3: Starting Over

Book 4: Coming Home

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Book 1: Maid for Love

Book 2: Fool for Love

Book 3: Ready for Love

Book 4: Falling for Love

Book 5: Hoping for Love

Book 6: Season for Love

Book 7: Longing for Love

Book 8: Waiting for Love

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True North

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Everyone Loves a Hero

Love at First Flight

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Book 2: Fatal Justice

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