CHAPTER 2
It’s not what you think ...
I swear I’d never hurt you ...
Now look at what you made me do.
Jillian woke up with a start. The old T-shirt she’d been sleeping in clung to her sweaty skin.
She took in a deep, choppy inhale.
Breathe. Everything would be all right if she could simply find her breath.
There. It was back. She felt her cheeks.
Dry. Which meant she’d only been crying in her sleep. Maybe that was progress.
She glanced at the clock. A few minutes after four in the morning. The funny thing was Connie would probably be waking up in an hour to do her morning chores and get a head-start on her day at the farm.
As much as Jillian had loved this place as a child, she was a city girl now. Orchard Grove was no place for her.
Yet here she was.
She sat up in bed, running
