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She jerked herself into her paja into bed She turned on the television It would be a long tih to sleep

Eiven him an earful about her and Evie, in particular about how Ed had run off after discovering Hazel was pregnant E re her first husband, whoer No one should ever e People, at least in Hazel’s opinion, needed ti your entire life with soly opposed a too-iality, when love was the thing that kept couples together, not a piece of paper and a fes

Whatever Emily had planted in his head, it had ht his he had for some reason sworn off

Trying to get distracted by the nature program she had turned to a low volume on television, Hazel failed miserably Her spirits sank when she considered how she’d celebrated the fantastic feeling of kissing Callum, while he apparently shunned such an emotion The cops had better find that shooter soon Hazel needed to get away from a man like Calluue

Chapter 5

The next afternoon, Callued for a car rental and went to visit a coht with him Hazel and Evie, who skipped beside Hazel on their way toward the entrance Callu He wondered if he had ht and shut the door before he could even respond Was she upset that he had kissed her? He’d rather have this resolved before going in to see his father Some of his family would be there and he didn’t need to have to explain Hazel’s mood

He stopped her on the cement in front

of the doors “Is so?”

Evie’s head tipped up and she looked at him

“No,” Hazel said

“Last night”

Evie turned to her mother

“Don’t worry about it We’ll wait for Kerry to find and catch the shooter and then we can both get back to our lives”

Callulanced back at him and then she asked her mother, “Mommy, are you mad?”

“Not now, Evie”