Chapter Ten
I stood there for the longest moment, feeling as if I was about to pass out at any second. Then my sanity reasserted itself, and asked, Have you checked outside?
No, of course not, because I’d been too busy assuming the worst.
Still wearing my coat, I hurried out the back door, then went down the path that led to the creek. Only when I was almost there, could hear it burbling cheerfully away as it flowed over the stones in its bed, did I realize that this was a wasted effort. I’d had to use my key to unlock the deadbolt on the back door to let myself out, so of course Logan couldn’t be down here. I hadn’t given him a key, since I’d seen no need to. We were together almost all the time anyway.
Even so, even though I knew the effort would be futile, I walked the last few yard
