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asked. “I mean, we can always put it back up again if it is covering something. I just wish we knew what was behind it.”
    “Only one way to find out.” With which Nathan shoved his boot clean through it.
    Complete silence followed and everything seemed to freeze in time. Then Tynan laughed. “Shit, man. Why don’t you just take the short cut through life?”
    “No point standing around ruminating.”
    The two men hunkered down and peered through the hole Nathan’s boot had made. While they poked and prodded and speculated, Naomi turned to Erin. “Are you okay? You’ve gone very pale.”
    Her stomach shuddered like there was no tomorrow, and she couldn’t seem to stop shaking. She’d barely finished remonstrating with herself to calm down after watching Nathan’s fist pounding the wall, but then he’d used his boot…
    Oh God.
    “Hey. Come through here and sit,” Naomi said, her arm coming around Erin’s shoulder. “You’re shaking.”
    “I’m okay, really.” She sat on the chair Naomi steered her toward, and pressed a hand to her stomach. “I feel… I feel a little sick.”
    “Take deep breaths,” Naomi instructed. “I’ll get you some water.”
    “I’m all right, it’s settling now.” Erin forced herself to believe it, because the last thing she needed was to make a fuss and draw attention to herself. Have questions directed at her. Questions she couldn’t answer. “I haven’t drunk much water today,” she improvised. “I’m probably a little dehydrated. Please don’t say anything, I really am fine now.”
    “Okay. But why don’t you stay and let me cook you a good meal. If you’re worried about Willa, I’ll go over and get her, bring her back here. Tynan will take her for a walk.”
    “No, really. She seems a little jumpy with strangers at the moment.”
    “Talia said she was fine with her the other day. She told me how friendly Willa is, how they had a really good play together. She was so taken with her, she was going to persuade Caleb to get a puppy.”
    Erin thought how distant Caleb had been with Willa last night. How he hadn’t tried to appease her after she’d gotten a little frightened around him. She feared Talia would have her work cut out convincing her apparently dog-ambivalent husband to get a pooch.
    “Thanks, anyway. But I really am okay now.” Erin stood, relieved that her legs felt steadier. “Don’t trouble Nathan for the lift,” she said following Naomi out onto the landing. “I think the walk in fresh air will do me good.”
    Naomi looked at her as if she didn’t agree. “You’ll get that when you take Willa out. Nathan won’t mind dropping you off on his way.”
    They found the two men where they’d left them, although the hole was decidedly larger now and plaster and dust covered the surrounding area where they’d pulled and tugged away at the wall. Nathan was half in, half out of the hole, while Tynan had his head through it watching whatever Nathan was currently doing.
    “Nothing in there,” Tynan said, glancing up to look at Naomi. “Apart from an old electric meter. The kind they used back in the fifties. The wiring was disconnected long ago by the look of things.”
    “Then we can have the whole thing down?” Naomi coughed against the cloud of dust when Nathan backed out of the space. “Most of it’s down anyway, I suppose.”
    Nathan stood and pushed a hand through his hair. Dust particles clung to the dark strands, and smattered his shoulders and upper arms.
    “You’ll need a brush,” Naomi decided and headed out.
    Erin followed close on her tail, intending to persuade her friend she really was okay, then make a quick getaway. But the footfall behind augured otherwise, and minutes later, she was climbing into the passenger seat of Nathan’s SUV.
    “There’s really no need for you to drive me,” Erin felt compelled to point out, reluctantly pulling her seat belt across. “It’s out of your way.”
    “It might surprise