In the Running (Dee Lloyd) - Chapter Thirteen

When Maura/Reenie wakes the next morning, catastrophe awaits.

“Oh, no!” she cried aloud.
Almost instantly, Matt half-stumbled into the bathroom.
“What?” he asked, looking around him wildly for whatever or whoever had upset her.
She threw herself into his arms and burrowed her face in his chest.
“What is it?” He took her face between his hands and repeated, “Reenie, tell me what is it?”
“My eye,” she wailed, both blue eyes wide open and horrified. “The swelling is gone. I look like myself again. And I have to go over to the house.”

In the Running (Dee Lloyd) - Chapter Twelve

Okay, so Maura/Reenie thinks that Matt betrayed her by calling Ryan and has another hysterical fit.

He’d had enough. This hot-tempered, sexy woman had been driving him crazy for the better part of a week. Trying to function normally in a state of constant semi-arousal was next to impossible. [But millions of teenage boys do it... well, at least functioning almost normally.] Being understanding and supportive was getting him nowhere. He wanted to shake her for doubting him, then he wanted to make love to her until his frustrations and her fears and mistrust melted away. [Welcome to another installment of How Not To Use Sex. This week's topic: Problem Solving and Punishment.]

In the Running (Dee Lloyd) - Chapter Eleven

The next chapter starts with Maura/Reenie and Matt discussing the idea of him moving in some more. She doesn’t want to lie to his family, even though he obviously doesn’t have a problem with it, but sees no alternative.

Telling Matt had been risky enough. She couldn’t count on the rest of his family believing that Gran was so determined to hold on to her dream that she’d buy Jon’s version of Reenie’s mental health over the evidence of her own experience. [Why not? Matt believes her. The family knows her and not her Gran. I don't know about you, but personally, I'm always more inclined to believe people I know. Especially when they seem mostly sane.]

In the Running (Dee Lloyd) - Chapter Ten

We left the last chapter with Maura/Reenie realising that Matt knew who she actually was and him banging on her door.

His glittering black eyes boring into hers, Matt raised his hand to her face. Gripping her chin with his thumb and forefinger, he tilted her face first one way, then the other.
“I have to admit you were more spectacular as a blond,” he drawled. “But I do think I like the new hairdo better.”
His voice was so cold she could hear ice particles in it. [Can you actually hear ice particles?]
“And the new name, sweetheart,” he rasped in a bitter mockery of sophistication. “I do like Reenie.” [What sophistication?]
His fingers tightened painfully as he began to lower his hard mouth toward hers. [And it's usually the women who are accused of using sex as a weapon...]

In the Running (Dee Lloyd) - Chapter Nine

We’re still in the car on the way back, when we get some more info on Matt’s background.

On his visit home last spring, Bronwyn had taken him aside and set him straight on the situation at the marina. The arthritis in Pete’s hip was making it impossible for him to do the heavy work. Because he refused to admit it and hire the necessary extra help, they were starting to lose business. She told Matt plainly that it was his duty to come home to stay.
(…)
He was fed up with chasing dirty money through intricate electronic mazes for the Justice Department. He had enlisted full of idealism and dreams of adventure. However, he hadn’t been with the anti-terrorist squad long when the army discovered his talent with computers and immediately slotted him into a government agency that combated international terrorism by tracking the sources of their funding. [A lot of which came from the US anyway, I'm sure.]

In the Running (Dee Lloyd) - Chapter Eight

Chapter Eight starts with this observation:

Matt wasn’t surprised that Reenie had avoided him ever since they broke off that superheated kiss in the apartment yesterday afternoon. He’d been feeling a little gun-shy himself.

Gun-shy? What the hell is that supposed to mean in that context? Dictionary.com defines it as:

1.	frightened by the sound of a gunshot: a gun-shy bird dog.

2.	hesitant, wary, or distrustful, esp. because of previous unpleasant experience.

So, either Maura/Reenie shot (at) him or their kiss was unpleasant. Which both wasn’t the case. Or did I miss something?
Maybe we’re entering Urban Dictionary territory:

1.	Reluctant to become involved in a relationship, especially a sexual one

2.	slow to react sexually

Summarising, Maura/Reenie scared him off sex. Way to go, girl!

In the Running (Dee Lloyd) - Chapter Seven

It’s been a while since I posted, I hope you still remember what’s going on… If not, here’s the short version:

Maura sees her fiancé Jon kill her boss and does the only sensible thing: She runs away. Unfortunately, shortly after she gets into a car accident through which she meets Matt and becomes Reenie for him, not revealing her true identity. Matt, not being completely stupid, notices something is wrong, but being not completely bright either, he doesn’t connect the dots between Reenie and the missing Maura, who is all over the news. Maura/Reenie stays at his place for a while, there’s sexual tension and Matt’s father wants to employ her as his personal assistant. Matt’s sister Bronwyn is politically active and therefore in touch with Jon’s right hand Walter Ames.
It is crucial for Maura/Reenie not to be recognised, so catastrophe seems on it’s way when Bronwyn comes home with Walter Ames in tow.

Ok, so that’s where we stand. Unfortunately, Ms. Lloyd took six chapters to tell you all of this, so we’re at chapter seven now.

Right. Getting started.

In the Running (Dee Lloyd) - Chapter Six

Sick with worry, Matt storms into the house. He calls out Maura/Reenie’s name and hears no answer. Therefore, he goes to her bedroom, where he hears the shower. Relieved, he sits down on her bed and notices her bag. He ponders about opening it.

In the Running (Dee Lloyd) - Chapter Five

In the last chapter we left Maura/Reenie ready to stab anyone who comes through the door. Chapter five starts with Matt coming home from a hard day’s work (and he’s been working like a dog). He thinks about the boat he’s working on and then about Gus (the sheriff), who promised to come by to help him.

The thought of Gus brought rushing back the questions he’d resolutely pushed out of his mind all day. Who was suddenly dead? [How the hell should I know?] In the throes of her nightmare, Reenie had been frantic about the discovery that some man was dead. He’d heard panic in her voice, real fear for her own safety. Her story about the death of her dog showed quick thinking but it didn’t wash. Had she killed a man?  [Because that would explain the fear for her own safety. Dead men usually come to haunt and kill you. By the way, I think it's amazing how much he can read her! I'm rather easy to read myself, but I don't think that a complete stranger would know the difference between me being panicky because I have a nightmare and me being panicky because I'm in real danger.]

In the Running (Dee Lloyd) - Chapter Four

Maura/Reenie is woken the next day by a radio, which tells her about her disappearance and that foul play is suspected. She wonders about what kind of foul play: that she had been killed? that she had killed Danny? Unfortunately she didn’t hear the whole broadcast but she concludes that her Gran informed the police after Maura/Reenie didn’t come home that night.

All Gran’s hopes were riding on Jon. [yes, we know by now, thank you.] She was steering his political career the way she’d hoped to guide her son’s and then her granddaughter’s. Maura took a deep, shuddering breath. Gran was doomed to disappointment again because if it was the last thing she did, she was going to see that Jon never got to hold public office. [High aspirations... She's not trying to get him into jail, she doesn't want justice to be served, she doesn't want to cut of his balls for sleeping around. She just wants Jon not to have a political career.]