The day her father got out of prison, Autumn gave serious thought to hiding out in her house. She hadn’t seen anything in the news about Jebediah, but it was only a matter of time before the media caught wind of his release and the vultures descended again. He’d find her, like a scavenger stalking carrion birds to find an easy meal. And then…she didn’t want to think about what he’d do. Judd had told her about the medical release, but no matter what Jebediah had, he was too damned mean to just conveniently keel over and stop being a problem. In the end, she went to work because the impulse to hide smacked too much of the scared little girl she’d been, and she’d worked far too hard to overcome those early years to go back there now.
But as she went through the soothing, methodical process o
