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She dug it out of her jacket and peered around Fiona’s head. “Yeah. Finally.”
“Good. Call Marcus and let him know what’s going on. See what we should do.”
Thirty
Bella’s thumb shook as she depressed her emergency contact for Marcus. It rang three times before a deep voice answered.
“Isabella?”
“Hey, Marcus.” She swallowed down the adrenaline shakes from their near collision. “Something happened.”
“Okay. Calm down.”
“I’m trying.”
“What happened?”
“She found us. She always finds us,” she said through clenched teeth.
“Explain. Take a breath then explain.”
Marcus was always calm. It was one of the reasons she probably hadn’t lost her mind completely in all of this. Instinctively, she calmed just because of his well-modulated voice.
“Turner—”
“We don’t say that kind of thing over the phone.”
“It doesn’t matter now. She already found us.” For God’s sake, she didn’t call the cabin anything other than “the cabin” since they’d gotten there. She barely associated herself with her own name after all the weeks in their hideaway.
“Where are you?”
She forced herself to lower her voice at Logan’s sharp look. “On the road. I don’t know where the hell we are. We’re in the middle of a damn blizzard.”
“But you’re not there? You’re safe?”
“Depends on what you consider safe.” She peered out the window at the mounting snow.
“Turn on your finder app on your phone.”
She did then put it back up to her ear. “All right.”
She heard the clack of fingers on keys and then him moving around. “I’ll get to you by morning. I just have to figure out logistics with the storm. I need you to find the shittiest hotel and hole up for the night. Wait out the storm.”
She nodded. “Okay.”
“What happened?”
“We left the cabin for a few hours—not even three. Groceries and all that for the storm.”
“Right.”
Bella smoothed her hand over Fiona’s angular head until it eased her as well. The warmth and solidity of her dog went a long way in centering her. “We came back to flowers.”
“Flowers?”
“I know, it sounds ridiculous, but the entire cabin was full of arrangements.”
“The same ones, like the others that have come?”
