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Chapter 16 - In Our Dream
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2021-07-02 19:44:37It was a perfect Christmas Eve. The night was bright and clear and the snow sparkled where ever light hit it. Jennah parked her car in her driveway and got out to look around. Turning, she eyed the door to her apartment and sighed. She didn’t want to go sit in there alone and think of what it would be like to share this night with family and children. Locking the car, she dropped the keys into her pocket and turned toward the sidewalk.
She stopped to watch a family outside playing. The children were excited, and rightly so. This was a pretty big night in their young worlds. The parents were happy. She could see the secrets they held between them each time they looked at each other on this magical night.
Each home she walked by was decorated and sang out the season’s joy. Feeling a chill, she pulled up the collar on her jacket and then stuffed her hands into her pockets. For this one night there was only happiness in Rid
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Dominic watched from behind the curtain as she got into her car and left. He waited until her lights were out of sight before scanning the entire area. He couldn’t see anything except the tall snowbanks lining the road. There was no trace of movement in the early dawn. He turned and looked the other way, watching for shadows. No signs of movement again this morning, but for the last few days his gut had been telling him someone was out there. He slowly moved the curtains back into place and stepped back from the window. He rubbed a hand over his face. “Probably just paranoia setting in,” he mumbled to the empty room. He turned around and grabbed his cell phone from the table. Rolling his shoulders, he tried to relax as he punched in Brody’s number. A groggy voice answered on the other end. “You weren’t sleeping, were you?” “Some people do that, Dom.” Dominic grinned at the sound of irritation
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Dom inhaled the cool air deeply. It felt good to be outside, even if it was to tromp through the snow in the little treed area behind Jennah’s building. She knew he went for these little strolls and had given him one of those female looks that told him she thought he shouldn’t, but she had never voiced it. That was one of the things he loved about her. She got him. She didn’t fake understanding what he was all about. She genuinely grasped what made him tick. He stopped and looked back behind him again, and checked for any movement that wasn’t supposed to be there. He smirked. She probably understood him because they has a lot of things in common. He reached for her with his mind. “Hey, beautiful, are you heading home to me yet?” Her soft chuckle filled his mind. “Soon. I had to stop at the store and get a few things, so you can cook me dinner after a hard day at work.” He grinned
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When Brody pulled up outside, Dom watched him walk slowly and carefully along the side of her car, looking for the same tracks he had been looking for. He was trying not to lose it, but they didn’t have long before it would be too dark to find anything. Brody stepped in the doorway. “The glove?” Dom went over and took the large case from his hand. “It’s mine. It’s covering blood.” He dropped the case onto the couch and opened it. As he pulled out the gloves, he looked over his shoulder to see Brody with a concerned look on his face. “It’s theirs, not Jennah’s.” He pulled on one glove and then paused in the motion of pulling on the other one. Hesitantly, he glanced back at the other man. Brody stood there with his head cocked to the side, eyebrows raised while studying him. Dom looked down at the floor for a second. He had just slipped up. Unbelievable. Sighing, he turned and
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