CHAPTER 10: Alison
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Alison groaned as the alarm on her phone beeped incessantly. She didn’t want to get up. She just wanted to roll over and go back to sleep.
For the last six weeks or so, that’s all she’d wanted to do. She was hurt and angry but instead of her emotions bubbling to an explosion like normal, they’d cooled to a fog of sadness. She felt nothing and wanted nothing. Not food. Not conversation. Not even Angel Face interested her.
She grabbed her phone and turned off that awful sound. She had to go to work. If she didn’t, it’d give Harker an excuse to see her and it was bad enough being near him in the office—hearing his deep voice, seeing him in the meetings and in the hallway. His dark eyes followed her whenever he was near, and it made her want to weep. Her pain,
