Chapter 15
Gabe’s pickup and her parents’ Suburban were parked in front of her house, but the cabin was empty. She didn’t need too many guesses to figure out where they were, and she took the opportunity to change out of her work clothes and into something that was sure to shock them all—a form-fitting black dress with a hem a few inches above her knees that she’d picked up this week in anticipation of tonight. She freshened up her makeup, shook out her hair and brushed it until it gleamed, decided to leave it down, and stood back to inspect her reflection in the tall, narrow mirror on the back of the bathroom door.
It had been so long since she’d dressed up that the woman gazing back at her looked like a stranger. The neckline was low enough that she ought to put on a necklace, but she
