Chapter 27

The thought of Harper stalking my home had sent me into free fall and yet I didn't even know why I was so surprised. The apparent animal intruder in the garden. The open bedroom window. The signs had all been there and I had put it down to nothing more than my own paranoid, guilt-stricken mind. Looking at him now, knowing him the way I now did, I wondered how I could have been so blind not to put two and two together. Still, he said angels were blind and if that is how he had seen me, then he was right. I had been blind. Completely, utterly blind to what had been creeping into my life and into my home. A splinter sharp shard of fear pierced my heart when I thought about Brandon. Was he safe? If Harper had been able to gain access so easily, would he be tempted to go back and kill Brandon? Maybe he had done it already. I couldn't bear the thought of that. It was one thing to cause my downfall, but Brandon's? He was innocent and didn't deserve Harper's hate or m