Chapter Sixteen
Travis
Travis slowly opened his eyes. As he came fully into consciousness, he stared into the darkness and listened intently for the cause of his waking. When the grandfather clock in the hallway gonged three times, one of his dogs changed position on the floor and let out a long, contented sigh. Must have been nothing, he thought, if the dogs didn’t react. Still, it was rare for him to wake in the middle of the night. He looked out the window and saw a small streak of lightning over the far range of hills. Maybe there had been thunder.
Travis sighed in frustration as her face appeared, first laughing, then angry, then desperately sad. Thoughts of Elise had been intruding lately and he couldn’t determine the cause of her sudden reappearance in this thoughts. It had alrea
