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“I’m good, Daddy. I just stayed up a bit late working.”
He scowled. “I knew it. You need me.”
“I always need you. But I’m going to be just fine without you for a few nights. I promise.”
“You stayed up half the night working. That’s not looking after yourself properly.”
“I’ll have a nap this afternoon and I’ll be all good.”
And next time she’d take a look at herself in the mirror before she answered his video call.
He stared at her intently. “You’ll get sick if you don’t look after yourself.”
“I know, Daddy. I’m sorry.”
“What did you have for breakfast?”
“Um, I . . . haven’t eaten any yet. I just woke up.”
“Baby.” That was all he said. But it was enough to let her know he wasn’t happy.
“I’ll go eat something now.”
“I want you to take it easy for the rest of the day. Stay at home. No work. Rest. And you’re to go to bed at ten tonight.”
She hoped to be in bed far earlier than that. “All right, Daddy.”
“I’ll try and call you again tonight.”
“I love you, Daddy.”
“Love you too, baby girl. Be good.”
“Why, Daddy, I’m always good.”
Yeah, she might have crossed her fingers while she said that porker.
CHAPTER3
APRIL
This is what she got for not being a good girl.
Fuck.
“Stay down! Don’t any of you fucking move!”
Fear filled her, and she had to bite on her lip to keep herself quiet.
“Give me the rest of the fucking cash!” the same angry voice roared.
April hadn’t got a good look at the guy when he’d burst into the corner store. Just enough to know that he had a scarf around the bottom of his face and a baseball cap pulled down low.
Oh, and he was carrying a gun.
Why . . . why had she come into town? She’d promised Trent that she would take it easy today, but mid-afternoon, she’d suddenly remembered that she had to get some of her packages to the post office. One of her customers had paid for expedited shipping and it needed to go out today.
After that, she’d made the colossal mistake of heading into the corner store to stock up on whipped cream and potato chips.
