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Summer gasped at the sound of her voice, wondering how could
a dead woman be on the other end of the line?
“Summer, are you there?”
Summer was shaken. Karen Reynolds had been her best friend since middle school.
They were tight as sisters and could pass as twins. They shared everything
until one day Karen took it too far and thought sharing extended to Summer’s
boyfriend.
“What the hell do you want?” Summer said, sitting up in bed, thoroughly
awakened in the middle of a good night’s sleep.
“You need to know why I disappeared.”
“I’m more interested in why you reappeared,” she snapped. “I can give you
directions to my house. I’ll be here waiting.”
“That’s not necessary,” she replied. “I made an appointment in your office for
tomorrow.”
Summer had checked her calendar before leaving and was sure Karen’s name was
not on the list, only a Charity was penciled in, a woman who’d been cagey about
her reason for wanting to see Summer, but had cancelled multiple times. “Is
this personal or business?”
“Personal and business.” Karen’s phone disconnected.
Summer rushed downstairs to the lower level of her townhouse, opened her
laptop, after a few clicks and searches, brought up the article about Karen’s
car crash. Now she had to wonder who was in the car because Karen was somehow
on this side of the grave.
At exactly noon, Summer’s assistant escorted Charity into the office and gently
closed the door upon her exit. As suspected, Charity was actually Karen, with a
little cosmetic surgery and nearly fifteen years thrown in. Summer pulled the
papers and slid them across her desktop. She had grown tired of this
masquerade, thinking it was time to play a little of her hand. “Karen, do you
want to tell me why you’re really here?”
Charity was silent for a long time, then she let out a long sigh, “Here I
thought I had you fooled, but all along I’ve been the fool.”
“The voice and the mole were the dead giveaways for me. Everything else is
different, but I know that trouble follows you wherever you go.”
Charity’s expression morphed from anger to relief. “Seemingly it does.”
“Tell me the whole story? Why’d you come here?”
“Your father sent me to find you.”
Summer smirked at the response. “You and I both know my father’s dead.”
“No, he isn’t. He’s in prison for the murder of the man who hurt you as a kid.
Telling you that he was dead was a lie told to you to protect you.
Now that took the wind out of Summer’s sails. “How can you prove any of that? I
have no reason to believe you whatsoever.”
Charity opened the folder she brought in with her, pulled out several pictures
and spread them out in front of Summer
“Juan Carlos had them delivered to your father,” she explained. “Thinking it
would buy his silence and cooperation. Everything I’m telling you can be
verified in the documents your mom sent you before she died. The cartel went
after you to keep your father in line. Your mother had lied to protect you,
Summer. I didn’t know you all were in witness protection. When I tried to make
up for what I’d done by finding your father, it led them right to you.” Charity
took in a deep breath and blew it out slowly. “It’s my fault your mom died.”
No sooner than the words were out of her mouth, three men burst through the
door. The first one Charity recognized as a man who’d she spotted at the coffee
shop she frequented.
“Ladies,” Juan Carlos said rubbing the tip of his gun on Summer’s face.
Summer turned her face, wishing she had brought her own weapon with her today.
He moved on to Charity and rubbed the gun around the baby.
“What do you want?” Summer growled.
“Oh, besides the kid? I think she already told you what I want. Didn’t you,
doll?” Juan Carlos kissed Charity across her lips.
Summer tried to gauge Charity’s expression but couldn’t tell if she was
disgusted or if the frown was because she’d been busted. “So, you’ve been
working for him all along?”
About Sweet Summer Breeze
Summer is still mending a broken heart from a relationship that ended long
before its expiration date. When she runs into her ex, Devon, he tells her the
most devastating news she’s heard since her mother was murdered. Then she
learns that a mysterious woman, with ties to Devon, is stalking her under the
guise of becoming a client. Summer now has to figure out if she’s been targeted
as her mother had been.
Devon, promised to love Summer forever. Unfortunately, forever came much too
soon when she made it clear that they had different goals in life and love.
After their breakup and a few drinks, he finds himself engaged and soon to be a
father with a woman he barely knows. The more Summer and Devon fight their
feelings for each while they uncover the truth behind the mysterious situations
that occurs, the more they are drawn together. Now with new developments that
are not in his control, he must face Summer and risk breaking her heart again,
while figuring out the secrets that his new wife is keeping.
Karen has infiltrated Summer's life, trying to right old wrongs. She will do
anything to save the child she carries, even sacrifice herself to put it in the
hands of a woman who will protect it from a man who wants the child—and her—for
his own lurid purposes. How long can she hide in plain sight, redeem herself in
Summer’s eyes, before all that is hidden comes to the light?
Devon and Summer are soon confronted with the fact that one woman holds the
keys from a dangerous past and an even more devastating future.
Story Notes: Sweet Summer Breeze
My process for this story wasn’t the greatest. I started this story many years
ago with different names and a different scenario. After developmental editing,
the story took shape into more than I could’ve dreamed. Now reading the story
in the final stages and growing from the put from veteran authors in the
project, I’ve become stronger as a writer and am applying what I’ve learned to
a work in progress.
Anita L. Roseboro, a native of North
Carolina. She has a B.S. degree in MIS (Management Information Systems) and a
Master’s in Business Administration from Gardner-Webb University and the
University of Phoenix respectively. The road has finally curved to the path
of
her life-long dream of writing, she stands ready to take on the world as she
lends her devotion and passion to her own life long motivations.
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