Chapter 39

Jordan had been so focused on what Woody had done for her that she had forgotten for a short time the creepy feeling she'd had earlier. But, as she sat down and began to fill her plate with food, it was back again in full force.

She tried to concentrate on the great food Woody had made for the day, but the chill running down her back and she could feel that it was even upsetting the baby. He was rolling and kicking like crazy. It was time to tell Woody now, when the fear was even flowing through her to the baby, she knew it was time. "Woody, I don't want you to over react to this, but I have the feeling we are being watched again."

Woody went still with the chicken leg he had been about to take a bite out of paused halfway to his mouth. Very quietly he asked, "Can you tell what direction this feeling is coming from?"

"I don't know. I really hadn't tried to focus it like that."

"Can you try?" he asked. "Is it worse when you are looking over my shoulder? Or maybe it is coming from behind you?"

She sat there for a moment focusing on something she didn't even want to think about let alone concentrate on, but Woody was right, there would be a lot less area to search if she could figure out where the feeling was coming from. The problem was that in the past her feelings had always led her astray and now here Woody was asking her to leave something this important to an area of her life that had always been a failure.

Jordan was about to shake her head 'no' and tell him that she couldn't tell anything when all of a sudden the creepy feeling actually shifted! It seemed to move from behind her to her left side! Eagerly, she opened her eyes and told Woody that.

He allowed his gaze to move slowly around the park as if he were merely taking in the view. Deliberately starting in the opposite direction she had said, in the hopes of not alerting Palmer if that was who it was, that they were on to him.

By the time his eyes got to the side of the park Jordan had indicated, she was about ready to scream. She wanted to run over there and find the creep that was doing this to her and strangle the life out of him. Although right now she could no more run than she could fit into her pre-pregnancy jeans! All she could manage these days was a medium speed waddle!

Woody's eyes returned to look at her, "I don't see anything right off, Jordie, but I'm sure he would either have a disguise on or be in good cover. I am going to pretend to go to the bathroom and try to get a better look. I want you to stay here! Do you understand?!"

Reluctantly, she nodded and as he got up to go she quietly told him, "Woody, please be careful."

He looked at her in surprise for a moment and then said, "I will."

By the time he got as far as the bathrooms Jordan's feeling of being watched lifted. From one moment to the next it had been there and gone, just that fast. With a frustrated sigh because she knew that meant Palmer had once again slipped away, she pulled out her cell phone and called Woody.

Looking at who the caller was, he answered the phone with a question, "Has he moved?"

"Yes," she replied with another sigh. "He's gone. As you walked by the restrooms I got the sense that he was gone. He must have realized that you were looking for him, or all this could just be a pregnancy induced mind game, but in any case I'm sorry that I have ruined our day with this nonsense."

"I'm coming back," he told her and hung up. When he reached the blanket he sat down next to her and put his arm around her shoulders. "I don't think that this is in your mind Jordan. Palmer has caused enough havoc in our lives that I believe you have a sense of when he is near now. I'm glad that you are letting me know as soon as you become aware of his presence."

To be continued…