![]() She didn’t draw a breath until the doors sealed and the elevator began to drop. As soon as she could fit, she squeezed inside and punched the ground-floor button. “Oh, come on,” she muttered, tapping her fingers against her leg until the gold doors crept open. “Maddy?” Noelle’s concerned voice tunneled down the hall. ![]() Maddy shrank deeper into the ficus and finally, finally, the elevator dinged its arrival. She heard voices, Nick’s boisterous laugh. She swiped a hand under her eyes, heedless of her makeup. Stairs were not an option, as she was on the twentieth floor of the Waterford building and sporting heels. “Come on, come on.” A star could be born in interstellar space, a polar valley carved by a glacier in the time it took the elevator to reach this floor. ![]() She jabbed the elevator button for the third time. Her hands shook as she silenced the phone before it drew the attention of the staff. Maddy Monroe was cowering behind a ficus tree near the hostess station when her cell phone rang. An Excerpt from Blue Ridge Sunrise Chapter 1 ![]()
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