CHAPTER 36Abby ran. She attacked the hill, pumping her arms and ran as if her life depended on it. As if a bunch of evil mutants were chasing her. Her breath burned in and out of her lungs. Then with a hum, the treadmill increased the incline, and she really felt the burn deep in her calves as she kept going. On the video screen, the trail went up a steeper portion of the mountain. A small rivulet cut across the trail and for a second she half expected the cold splash of water on her feet. La Roux played loudly in her earphones, but she wasn't paying much attention to the music. Her thoughts kept going back to the office last night when she had asked Jasper to go to the reunion, and he'd said he would if he had finished the book. What sort of answer was that? After everything she'd done fo
