“I can’t believe what I’m about to say,” Kelly said, stopping her rental car at the mall’s entrance and turning to look at Dani. “It goes against my deepest shopping beliefs, but…don’t go into the mall.”
Dani grinned, amusement momentarily diffusing her own unease. It was certainly a first. It tracked with her feelings. Right now the last thing she wanted to do was go inside and meet another person she knew by words but not by sight. Her mind was total goo. She had passed tired days ago. Even pissed off had faded, leaving behind a thick exhaustion that made even one step at a time too hard to contemplate, let alone do. It would be so easy to stay in the car. Drive off with Kelly. Go to the convention. She belonged at the writer’s conventions. Not going off to meet an ex-CIA agent in a mil
