All Chapters of Marked By Mistake: The Baker's Secret: Chapter 11 - Chapter 12

(Ivy's POV)"Do you notice that car?"Denise's voice, low and careful, pulled me away from the register, and I followed her gaze out the front window to where a dark sedan sat parked across the street, engine idling, windows tinted just enough that I could not make out who was inside."Uhm uhm, the black car?" I said calmly. "People park across the street all the time, Denise.""Well not for an hour plus now, they do not."My stomach tightened, an old, familiar unease settling low and cold beneath my ribs, the same feeling that had been creeping up on me for days now, long before any car, long before any postcard, something wordless and instinctive that I could not quite explain even to myself."Its probably nothing, Denise" I said, mostly to convince myself."Probably." Denise did not sound convinced either.I watched the car for another minute, willing it to pull away, and eventually it did, easing back into traffic and disappearing around the corner without incident, and I told mys