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“What? No, I’”
“I didn’t think so, but there’s a uy you aren’t ned work order to move out your furniture”
Leah i under her feet “What! I’”
“Theboxes as I speak”
Leah gripped the phone, leaning into the receiver as if it would convey more desperation “Julia, do ht now”
“Will do”
Leah explained the situation to Gail and then, grabbing her coat, hurried to her car She drove hohts When she pulled up in front of her town house, a yellow Acevan was parked in her driveway The back of the truck was open, the rae- to two uniformed cops
Leah parked in front of the house and ran up to her door “What’s going on here?”
A tall uniformed officer broke away from the movers and came closer to her “Are you Leah Carson?”
“That’s Leah,” Julia said
The officer ignored her neighbor “Are you Leah Carson?” “I a on here?”
“Do you have identification?”
“This is my house!”
“Ma’am, we need to be sure”
With tre into her purse and fished out her wallet She plucked out her newly minted Tennessee driver’s license with her Nashville address and handed it to hiht here?”
“Why?”
“Just need to check out a few things”
She folded her arths to get people off her property But as ic called and told her to calm down “Sure Go ahead”
She glanced at her neighbor and the movers, who looked confused and annoyed As the officer slid behind the wheel of his car with her license and typed into his computer, she looked at the movers “Who sent you here?”
The tallest, a dark-skinned ray at his teo”
“Who put in the work order?”
“I don’t know All I know is that ere supposed to pack the whole place up and move it”
“Move it where?” The tone of her voice spiked with anger and fear
He glanced at his work order “A storage facility north of town There’s a unit waiting to take the furniture into storage”
“Can I see your work order?”
“Sure” He lifted the clipboard at his side and pulled off the top sheet “This is what I had in ht”
She read over the order, keying in on the vital information It was her naaze skipped to the last line She wanted to knoho had issued the order The name was Leah Carson
She gripped the strap of her purse as if it were her lifeline “This doesn’t make sense I didn’t order this move”
He flipped through the pages and held up a paper with her naits of her credit card number “Your name is on the credit card receipt”
The order had been placed last week Before the bank had shut down this account “I didn’t order any of this!” she said, louder than she’d intended
She took the receipt, her sto with nausea The bank hadn’t called her about this expense, but then, ould they? It was a local buy and not extravagant, and it had been made before they’d issued a new card She’d have picked up on it when her credit card statement came in at the end of the month, but that would have been too late to stop today’s fiasco
A black SUV pulled up behind the police car, and she instantly recognized Alex Morgan as he got out The folds of his overcoat caught in the wind, revealing his badge and gun as he strode toward her
She was glad to see hiot out of his car and Alex spoke to hiaze locked on Leah, and he strode toward her in long confident strides
“Want to tellon?”
His cal “I don’t know I got a call fro”
“Why’re you ?”
“I’! I didn’t order this” She held the now-crumpled work order in her fist “My name is on the form, but I didn’t authorize it”
“She paid for it,” the mover said
“I didn’t pay for it willingly” She looked at Alex