Security Blanket
The man was watching her.
Marin Sheppard was sure of it.
He wasn't staring, exactly. In fact, he hadn't even looked at her, though he'd been seated directly across from her in the lounge car of the train for the past fifteen minutes. He seemed to focus his attention on the wintry Texas landscape that zipped past the window. But several times Marin had met his gaze in the reflection of the glass.
Yes, he was watching her.
That kicked up her heart rate a couple of notches. A too-familiar nauseating tightness started to knot Marin's stomach.
Was it starting all over again?
Was he watching her, hoping that she'd lead him to her brother, Dexter? Or was this yet another attempt by her parents to insinuate themselves into her life?
It'd been over eight months since the last time this happened. A former "business associate" of her brother who was riled that he'd paid for a "product" that Dexter hadn't delivered. The man had followed her around Fort Worth for days. He hadn't been subtle about it, either, and that had made him seem all the more menacing. And she hadn't given birth to Noah yet then.
The stakes were so much higher now.
Marin hugged her sleeping son ... read full excerpt from Security Blanket ebook
