husband, too. “People change.”
“Not that much.”
Later, as Jamie was driving home, she got a call from the house phone. Harley.
“Hey, finally. I was getting worried,” she answered before Harley could say anything. “I didn’t call because I didn’t want to wake Emma. How was the mixer?”
A pause. “You didn’t wake me,” her sister said. “Harley did. She’s in bed crying.”
* * *
Jamie broke the speed limit driving home and screeched into the driveway. She ran to the back door to find it locked. Of course. She banged on it with the flat of her hand, then whirled around and went for the gnome that held the key. Not. There.
She just managed to keep from screaming before Emma appeared at the door. “Be quiet. You’ll wake the dead,” she said in her flat voice.
“Where’s the key?” Jamie demanded as she brushed past her and racewalked for the stairs.
“Harley forgot to put it back. Tsk-tsk.”
Jamie ran up the stairs and took a moment at the top landing to pull herself together. Her heart was pounding. It would do no good to scare her daughter. Maybe it was nothing. Maybe everything was okay. It was just that Harley never cried.
She walked down the hall with measured steps, forcing herself not to race. She hesitated outside Harley’s door. There was no sound.
She heard Emma come up the stairs and stop at the top, like Jamie had. Jamie looked back at her sister. Emma wore sweatpants and a loose, white T-shirt with “River Glen General” stitched across the breast pocket.
“Are you going in?” asked Emma.
Jamie nodded, then tapped softly on the door. “Harley?” When there was no answer, she twisted the knob and cracked the door about two inches. “Harley?”
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