Chapter 108: The Anxious Wait

Alex Hayde stepped up to Kimberly Yoppe and clenched a hand around her pale, bare arm. It was October, but her formal blouse had short sleeves, so his fingers closed on warm skin. He felt disaster rolling toward him like a storm front. Tears pricked, then spilled. He plunged into her embrace, a move so reckless he hardly recognized himself, and for a moment he felt as if his civil service career were over. Kimberly startled. The man who always strutted and blustered finally lowered his head. She...