Chapter Nine
Excited chatter hit her the moment Rissa opened the door and stepped into the teachers’ lounge. She sighed deeply. On the first day of a new school year the air always seemed to crackle with electricity.
Until this year.
For the first time in eighteen years of teaching at the Bay Academy, a private elementary school, she wasn’t anticipating greeting parents and getting to know a class full of bright-eyed, curious children.
It had been fifteen days, seventeen hours and a handful of minutes since JD had walked out of her life, and she had thought of little else during that time. Today was the first time she’d stepped away from her television, broadcasting CNN all day and night as she waited for any small bit of news about the aftermath of Hurricane Alex, foolishly hoping to
