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Maybe her inbox was full. That happened sometimes, right?
Dare would try again. He hoped it would go through.
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The router had been turned off for over a week, but that allowed Jenny to work on the revisions without distractions. She’d even finished a day early since it was still ten minutes to midnight.
Sitting at her desk, she attached theAssassin Fevermanuscript and clicked send. The swooshing sound of the email shooting across the internet brought a palpable relief.
Time to celebrate.
She unwrapped a candy bar.
The story had clicked during revisions, and she couldn’t be happier with the result. She hoped readers agreed.
Ash Thorpe had saved the day—well, mankind—once again, but in the process, he’d lost another love. Someday, he’d get a happily ever after. No more dodging bullets, defusing bombs, and capturing terrorists and assorted bad guys. Just smiles, laughter, and love.
The forever, true-love kind.
Most likely before she got hers.
She bit into the candy bar. The combination of caramel, peanuts, and chocolate was one of her favorites.
The little postage stamp at the bottom of her screen displayed the number 3413. That wasn’t as many emails that had accumulated the last time she’d been on deadline, but Missy had warned her the email provider had experienced an outage at some point. That meant she would have had more if that hadn’t happened.
Might as well see what she’d missed. Jenny opened her inbox and scrolled through the emails.
Delete. Delete. Flag to reply later. Delete. Forward to Missy. Flag. Delete.
This wasn’t too bad. She kept going. Maybe if she could get through a few hundred tonight…
Oh. Wow.
She leaned closer to the screen. The bottle guy had replied two days ago. She clicked on the email.
Re: Fwd: Search for Bigfoot Special
DOR2008@…
To: Jenny <8675309@…>
Are you okay?
Not a stalker or weird guy, but I haven’t heard from you. Please reply when you get the chance.
Dare
Aww.He—Dare—sounded worried. That was sweet, as was how he didn’t want her to think he was strange. If he were a sociopath, she doubted he’d have written the words stalker and weird in his email.
Jenny reread his message. She felt as if she were missing something. There had to be another email she hadn’t seen yet. She scrolled through her inbox until she found it.
Fwd: Search for Bigfoot Special
DOR2008@…
To: Jenny <8675309@…>
Jenny,
