Chapter Seven
AS SOON AS GILLIAN awoke, she knew she was alone. There was a complete absence of Wyatt’s presence, telling her he was nowhere in the vicinity and hadn’t simply slipped from the truck. She wasn’t sure how she knew, except she responded to him on a fundamental level, and that response was absent. With a small sigh, she stretched as she sat up, hugging his jacket to her for a moment before finding her clothing. She dressed hastily before looking around the barn from the cab of the truck. Though she knew it was futile, she slipped from the driver’s side and examined the entire barn to ensure he wasn’t inside.
With no sign of him in the interior, she stepped out and scanned the field around her, along with the gravel road. The heavy rain had stirred up the rocks to reveal mud u
