As Benedict had observed him, it had become glaringly apparent that the man was actually watching someone else. He’d kept his gaze glued to a small storefront. When the woman had emerged, dressed in her drab brown with her tightly-coiffed hair, he’d noted that the large man relaxed immediately. She was his quarry, there was no doubt.
Reflecting on the woman, Benedict had determined two things about her immediately. Underneath her drab costume, and he couldn’t help but feel it was, indeed, a costume—an affectation for whatever reason—she was far lovelier than she wanted anyone to realize. She’d also been attuned to the danger that the other man posed. Which begged the question of why she would be familiar with such? Had it been a simple instinctive response, like a rabbit running from a fox? Or did she know him?
The large man emerged again from the stairs he’d taken. Had he ducked out of sight to answer the call of nature or to report his findings to someone else? Benedict considered his options. He could follow the woman and assume that the hulking goon was, in fact, hunting her, or he could follow the goon and see if, perhaps, he’d been wrong in assessing the situation.
The woman piqued his interest. She was a study in contradictions and he had always enjoyed a puzzle. But she was also a distraction, and one that he could ill afford. Following her could confirm whether or not the other man was a threat to her and, by extrapolation, had been a threat to his sister. But if he was wrong, if the lumbering oaf watching her had simply been a coincidence, he would have lost his advantage there. As the miscreant was the more likely source of information if he was to locate Mary, Benedict bid a mental farewell to the vexing woman who had nearly upended them both and followed the thug.
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Growing up in Tennessee, spending as much time as possible with her doting grandparents, soap operas were a part of her daily existence, followed by back to back episodes of Scooby-Doo. Her path to becoming a romance novelist was set when, rather than simply have her Barbie dolls cruise around in a pink convertible, they time traveled, hosted lavish dinner parties and one even had an evil twin locked in the attic.
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