"What are you doing here?" Steve"s angry voice startled JV.
"Unpacking,” she continued what she was doing without looking up.
"I can see that. Why?"
"Rebecca invited me to stay," she was determined not to let him see how shaken she was by his sudden appearance behind her.
"Why? What did you say to her?"
"The truth."
"You mean your version of it," he snarled.
"I mean the truth." She flinched, but kept her voice even and her back to the man she"d come so far to see.
"What kind of sob story did you tell my Karhyn to get her to invite you to stay here?"
The accusation flipped a switch inside her. It turned her fear and nerves to fury. She fought to keep her anger off her face and out of her voice. "I didn"t tell her a sob story. I was content to stay at the motel in town. Rebecca show
