“I’ll be okay,” Lynn whispered later that night as she lay across the bed, talking to Alexis on the phone. “You just need to worry about the girls finishing up school. I’ll be home in a couple days. I love you and I miss you and the girls so, so much. Goodnight, sweetheart,” she murmured when the call disconnected. No sooner than the dial tone echoed in her ear, she’d already begun to cry again. “Damn these hormones.” Of course, she knew that the hormones weren’t her only problem.
Lynn nearly jumped off the bed when she heard a knock on her hotel door. She knew it wasn’t her security guard since she’d given him the remainder of the night off, once she was inside her hotel room. Now she wondered if giving him the night off was a wise idea. When the knock sounded again, she lifted the recei
