Page 61 of Safe With You

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Jacob saw the security footage as Molly left her supervisor's office. She looked like someone had taken a sledgehammer to her mood.

Picking up his cell phone, he waited until Molly walked into her office and shut her door to call.

He kept watching as she rounded her desk and sat down, hard, in her chair.

He could see the light flare in her purse as her phone rang again and again.

Jacob could hear it on his end, but see it on hers.

Molly lifted her gaze toward the security camera and he felt like someone had just sucker punched him in the kidneys.

She looked positively destroyed.

"Come on, baby," he whispered, "pick up the phone."

He saw her shoulders slump as she reached down and pulled her phone out of her bag.

Jacob breathed in a sigh of relief as she held it in her hands and looked down at the screen.

"Please, baby." He let out a loud exhale. "Talk to me."

She touched the screen and his phone stopped ringing.

Jacob looked down and saw that the call had ended. When he looked back up at the feed from the security cameras on the screen, he saw her looking at the camera again.

Molly shook her head and put the phone back down into her bag. On top of it, she placed some kind of paper and sat back up in her chair, studiously ignoring the security camera.

His phone rang and he looked down at the screen.

WALKER CALLING

Jacob picked up the phone and accepted the call.

"Yeah?"

"Uh... okay. I guess you're looking at the security footage."

"You think?"

"Whoa there, grumpy. You want to send someone in to check on her?"

Jacob shook off some of his frustration. "I don't think that will be a good idea. She's stressed and I don't blame her. Still, I think if we send someone in, it might make things harder."

"She didn't take your call?"

"No. But if she needed someone, I think she'd call."

God, he hoped he was right.

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Everything was wrong.

She'd started another tape to transcribe and it just made her head hurt.

Pressing her fingers to her temples, she tried to massage away the pain, but that didn't work either.

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