I only needed a second or two to prove to myself that I was overreacting, then we’d all quiet down. I hurried away before Patricia could stop me.
The buzz of conversation swirled around me, growing louder with the frantic beat of my pulse. The girls couldn’t have gone far. I sprinted up the stands, hoping an elevated view would help.
There, that flick of the yellow and black hair bow and toss of brunette pony tails. The girls swayed and strutted away from the ball park along the sidewalk on the far side of the stands. The dark-haired man wasn’t with them.
A voice in my head shouted at me. Count them! There were three girls talking to him.
I looked again. The third girl. The blonde was missing.
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Shannon Baker lives on the edge of the desert in Tucson with her crazy Weimaraner and her favorite human. Baker spent 20 years in the Nebraska Sandhills, where cattle outnumber people by more than 50:1. She lived in Flagstaff for several years and worked for the Grand Canyon Trust, a hotbed of environmentalists who, usually, don’t resort to murder. She is the proud recipient of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers 2014 and 2017-18 Writer of the Year Award.
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