CHAPTER TWENTY THREE
Blaine felt uneasy as he approached Riley’s townhouse in his SUV.
He was driving his own daughter, Crystal, and Riley’s daughters, April and Jilly, home from school.
The girls are so quiet, he thought.
Again.
Riley had called Blaine yesterday morning to let him know she was on her way to Mississippi to work on a case, and as usual she didn’t know how long she’d be away. Blaine knew that April and Jilly usually took the bus to and from school, just like Crystal did. He’d offered to drive them all to school and back while Riley was gone …
Just to be helpful.
He’d thought it would be a nice change for the girls. It had also seemed like an appropriate offer, given the possibility—or was it actually a likelihood?—that he would soon be Riley’s daughters’ stepfather. A
