Wanted by Her Lost Love

and turned anxiously back to Nina. “Do me a favor,Nina. This is important, okay? If anyone in the dinerasks about me—anyone at all—you don’t knowanything.”Nina’s eyes widened. “Kelly, are in you in somekind of trouble?”Kelly shook her head impatiently. “I’m not introuble. I swear it. It’s…it’s my ex. He’s a realbastard. I saw him in the diner a minute ago.”Nina’s lips tightened and her eyes blazed withindignation. “You go on ahead, hon. I’ll take care ofthings here.”“Bless you,” Kelly murmured.She ducked out the back door of the diner andheaded down the alley. Her apartment was only twoblocks away. She could go there and figure out whatthe heck to do next.She almost stopped halfway there. Why was sherunning? She had nothing to hide. She’d donenothing wrong. What she should have done wasmarch across that diner and bloodied his nose.Instead she was running.She took the flimsy stairs to her second-storyapartment two at a time. When she was inside, she