of the cat staring in at him from the other side of the cage. Couldn’t blame him, though really, he should probably worry more about Owen. Reggie had a leash. Owen didn’t.
“Becca, ride with me.” Jeremy started for the trees.
“Where are you going?” my father asked.
“I parked at the head of that walking trail through the woods.”
“Explains how he got back here without Billy or me or anyone but Reggie seeing him,” Owen said.
“Why would you do that?” I asked. “You couldn’t know that the trail wound past my parking lot.”
The location of the veterinary clinic would be obvious to anyone who could read a sign, or speak English and ask a question, but knowing where the hiking trail led wasn’t.
“I didn’t.”
“You were supposed to call me when you arrived.”
“I tried. You didn’t answer.”
I’d probably been busy gasping for breath, and I hadn’t had time to check my phone since.
“Then I saw you at the head of the trail.” His forehead creased. “Or I thought I saw you. You never told me you had a twin.”
“She doesn’t,” Owen said.
“There was a woman who looked exactly like you.” Jeremy’s gaze flickered over my face. “Except she had dark eyes, black hair and it was shorter.”
“We need to discuss your definition of exactly,” Owen said.
Jeremy cast Owen an evil glare, which caused Reggie to growl.
“Hush,” Owen murmured. Reggie hushed, at least out loud. In my mind he continued to grumble.
Stink. Bad. And the inevitable: Splode.
“You talked to her?” I asked.
Jeremy shook his head. “I pulled over, called your name. She kept walking onto the trail, so I followed. She was pretty far ahead, then she stopped and stared north. Trail wound around. I lost sight of her, but when I got to the place she’d been, I stopped.” He waved at my Bronco. “I saw your car and the VET sign. The door was open, so I figured you’d gone in. I started to follow then—” He jerked his thumb at Reggie. “That grabbed me.”
Reggie lifted his lip and showed teeth. Asshole.
I turned my inappropriate desire to laugh into a cough-type throat clearing. I was very good at it. “You really thought she was me?”
“You could have dyed your hair. You also said you had a sister.”
“She doesn’t look anything like me.”
He shrugged. “They say everyone has a twin somewhere.”
They did say that. But how weird was it that my doppelgänger had shown up in my teeny-tiny hometown and walked down a forest path, then stared at the place where I lived right after a masked person had tried to kill me?
Superweird, but today what wasn’t? It also made me wonder if the woman who’d sat on the car and stared at me had been doing so because she’d seen my twin too.
“Did you see a woman who looked like me?” I glanced at Owen.
“There was a pretty big crowd out front but I’d have noticed that. She probably continued down the trail.”
“And straight out of Three Harbors,” I said. “Damn. I would have liked to see how much she looks like me.”
“Probably not that much,” Owen said.
“I’m not blind,” Jeremy snapped.
Owen ignored him.
“I need to get home to your mother.” My dad started for the street.
“What’s the rush?” I asked.
He continued to walk, throwing his answer over his shoulder. “Someone will have called her about this. She’ll be worried.”
“Call and unworry her.”
“Forgot my phone.”
“I can call h—“
“Things to do, Becca.”
He disappeared around the building. An instant later I caught sight of him pulling a U-turn before he gunned it out of town.
“I’ll drive you around on the street to Reitman’s car.” Owen pulled out his keys. “It’s on the way to my house.”
“I’m not getting in an enclosed space with that dog,” Jeremy said.
Woof!
Reggie stared at the trees. Was Pru watching? Or was Edward still chasing her?
Who was Edward? Another wolf? Pru hadn’t sounded glad to see him.
“Becca’s not walking through the woods with you,” Owen said.
“I thought we’d determined I wasn’t the one who tried to kill her.”
Owen crossed his arms. “I’m unconvinced.”
His biceps bulged against the sleeves of his khaki T-shirt. Jeremy seemed almost as entranced by them as I was. I suppose he was the one being threatened by them.
“We’ll take Owen’s truck.” At Jeremy’s flash of annoyance, I lifted a hand. “The sooner we arrive at the crime scene, the sooner we can all go back to our lives. I’m sure you need to get on the road, Jeremy.”
“I made a reservation at a hotel for the