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    As it turned out, he did less than she might have hoped.
    When she turned at her door, key already secured in the lock, Andrew gripped her by the shoulders and kissed her firmly, no polite buss on the cheek this time. But just when Elyce had started to relax into the embrace, enjoying the novel sensation of this new set of lips, this unfamiliar tongue exploring hers, he released her and stepped back.
    “I’l see you Monday,” he said with a smug grin. And then he was back in his car and out of sight down the driveway, leaving Elyce alone on her doorstep, mildly frustrated and extremely cold under the new winter moon.

Chapter Three
    Elyce had planned to spend Saturday sleeping in, lounging around the house, reading a mystery novel over several cups of hot tea or possibly cocoa, and perhaps taking a steamy bath with bubbles after breakfast.
    Instead she awoke just before dawn, heart pounding at the unexpected sound of a car pul ing up and stopping outside the little house. She usual y enjoyed the isolation of the tiny little place in the woods because it was so quiet at night, but a sudden fear gripped her at the thought that any cries for help would certainly go unheard. Her nearest neighbors were over half a mile away, and a hil y ridge rose between her house and theirs.
    She bolted the few steps from her bed down the tiny hal to the living room, and headed straight for the row of hooks next to the door. Reaching for her purse, glad it was already almost daylight, Elyce grabbed her cel phone with relief and dialed her parents’ number. She knew they would certainly be home at that hour to pick up the phone if it rang.
    Home, already wide awake and into the second cup of coffee, from the sound of it. Her mother’s voice, comfortingly safe, greeted Elyce just as a firm hand knocked on her door.
    “Honey? What are you doing up this early on a Saturday, is something wrong?”
    “I don’t know,” Elyce admitted in a hoarse whisper, looking out her front window but not recognizing the silver SUV she saw there. She regretful y recal ed her intention to have a peephole instal ed in the front door one day.
    The knock sounded again, a bit more insistent, and she glimpsed a flash of white just at the edge of her line of sight where the doorstep began. “There’s somebody outside, but I wasn’t expecting anybody. If I get cut off or anything, could you just… I know it’s sil y. I’m sure it’s just a neighbor.”

    “It’s not sil y, Elyce, it was the right thing to cal someone, but…” Her mother’s voice, tight with concern, trailed off as Elyce cal ed out to her visitor with a strength she didn’t feel.
    “Who is it?”
    “Karl. And Astro. Are you going to let us in? It’s cold out here.” His voice was muffled but unmistakable, and Elyce suddenly realized that the flash of white had been the dog’s tail, wagging with excitement. No doubt he could smel her, even from outside the door, and he knew the house wel enough now to recognize it as hers. She felt a huge surge of relief, fol owed hard by suspicion. Why was Karl here, and at this time?
    “Mom, it’s just Karl. He brought Astro for a visit. I’l cal you later, okay?”
    “Oh.” Elyce could hear al the things her mother was struggling not to say. “That’s good. I didn’t realize you two were stil getting together. Is there anything I should know?”
    “No, Mom.” She was snapping the deadbolt open with trembling fingers, taking a final deep breath before reaching for the doorknob.
    “Wel , tel him I said hel o, al right?”
    “Okay, I wil .” And there he was on the doorstep, although her immediate attention was captured by Astro, who leapt at her in a flurry of fur, al licking tongue and wagging hindquarters. “Mom says hel o,” she mumbled obediently through clenched lips to Karl as she tried to avoid the dog’s adoring assault on her face. “‘Bye, Mom.
    Love you,” she said, clicking the phone shut and slipping it into