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The blast of frigid air that hit hithened his resolve to check on Kaylee What if so already, and since inians weren’t used to this kind of weather, it was unlikely she’d be prepared for the cold if she’d gotten stalled soe of Kay out there soency supplies quickened his step

Luckily he’d been one of the last to arrive, so his truck was parked at the end of his parents’ driveway

Eli loved his truck It was hardly a flashy sports car, but it was dependable and built for a man his size Flashy wasn’t his style and it wouldn’t have suited hier brothers He lookedhis line of work, that was s were protectors If there was even a chance Kay was in trouble, a protector was exactly what she needed

GOING OUT TO get diapers should have been a fifteen-hter into her coat and car seat had easily eaten up five of thoseimpatience as the woman in front of her loaded the checkout conveyer belt hat looked like half the store All she wanted was to buy her diapers and get back to her car before Hope started crying again Noas just her luck that she’d gotten stuck in line behind so up for the apocalypse

People are so ridiculous, she thought

The shelves in the store had been swept clean of all the staple iteured she could run in and out since she only needed one thing, but instead she’d had to fight to get down the aisles since there were so h the line, she tucked the package of diapers into her huge purse with one hand and picked up Hope’s car seat with the other The outside of the store was just as chaotic as the inside The parking lot was packed and there were abandoned shopping carts everywhere

She looked up at the sky in trepidation after she’d hooked Hope’s car seat back into the base It was so much worse than when she’d left the apart the diapers than risk getting stuck out in this stor lot and back onto the et to the light, so at the last minute she turned the opposite direction and headed for one of the back roads that would lead her to her apart

Maybe she should have taken Matt up on his invitation to come with him to the Alexanders’ His four-wheel-drive SUV would have navigated the icy streets better Then she could have seen Eli

That’s the last thing you need

Although, she probably should have accepted the ride She patted the steering wheel of her used sedan It got her from place to place, but it was temperamental and no h, it was all she could afford

Jackson had told her the real hts to the writersand appearances When he’d first signed her as part of the singing group Divine, she’d wanted to tell hi she’d written

Not that it ht on They only had roup and offered her a solo contract She’d finally worked up the nerve toand he’d offered to take a look at her work Sadly, even though she’d proh