A Walk in the Park Page 9

  “Do you?”

  “Yes. So, you can believe the lie she’s telling you all you want, but I know what I saw that night.”

  Vashti drew in a deep breath. “Do you? Or do you only know what you think you saw?”

  Then without saying anything else, she turned and walked out the kitchen.

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  ISBN-13: 978-1-488-06485-2

  A Walk in the Park

  First published as Smookie and the Bandit in the anthology Love Bites in 2013. This edition published in 2019.

  Copyright © 2013 by Brenda Streater Jackson

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