It all happened so suddenly, and it ended just as abruptly.
The two of them got out of the car, called the police and the ambulance in one seamless motion, then stood there motionless like a pair of telephone poles. Neither of them went to help the man still wailing on the ground.
The moment Howard Gallagher appeared, Arabella Donovan's nerves tightened, stretched to their absolute limit.
She never imagined that before she could even do anything, someone's carefully orchestrated "chance encounter" would nearly turn into the scene of a fatal car crash.
'I get it. The plot has developed to a point where it can't possibly follow the original script anymore.'
In the original story, Howard Gallagher and Melody Lynch first met abroad.
