Tracking Game

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Tonight, the stage had been set for love. The ladies of the Saturday Evening Club had transformed the Timber Creek community building into a tropical island for the Celebration of Summer dance. Romance mingled in the air with the scent from huge flower bouquets that towered in each corner of the hardwood dance floor. Brilliant-orange bird of paradise and scarlet ginger plants spiked from vases above purple hibiscus and the draping spray of rosy bougainvillea. Smaller arrangements graced the bandstand, which framed a local group who specialized in country and pop hits.

Deputy Mattie Cobb stood by the refreshment table, watching the dancers, with her date Cole Walker. Though she’d set her law enforcement duties aside for the evening, she was finding it hard to relax and have fun. Her relationship with Cole had grown more serious during the past few weeks, which should have been fine, since it was what she wanted. But she felt like she was harboring a secret that she needed to get out in the open, and the right time had yet to arise.

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