She a barber having a shop in a New York high-rise, New York born and raised.
He hired as a sanitation engineer/janitor, he from a broken marriage on Long Island originating from Oklahoma.
A chance meeting or a twist of fate they meet one evening just before she is ready to close her shop his supervisor having assigned him to clean it, she previously married herself her now ex-husband an abusive person giving her a fear of men she does not know.
Over a period of several months they begin to develop a casual friendship, disclosing a few tidbits about each other, he having told her about his money problems she contemplated about it and decided to offer to let him do some work at her home.
She is having him do yard work and is happy with his performance, he then begins to start coming over to her house every Sunday to do various chores including some repairs.
As some time passes they become close friends and eventually become lovers.
As lovers after a short time he pops the question she accepts and they are married.
He convinces her to move to his hometown a small community in Oklahoma, after some contemplation she agrees and after a long road trip they arrived in a small rural community.
It is a small house with acreage, visible through the windows are fields of wildflowers.
They are sharing a happy life together for quite some time she becoming pregnant with his baby they both looking forward to its birth.
He is working she is a housewife they are sharing a good marriage together before a woman from his past comes back into his life.
He rents a place for her and gives her some money for old-time's sake.
Living in a small town everybody knows everybody else's business, it is not long before his wife finds out about him and his high school sweetheart.
She ask him to leave fairly certain that he has been cheating on her, she taking a job at a convenience store to supplement her income for the time being.
His high school sweetheart is murdered and homicide believes he is a suspect.
The convenience store where she is working is robbed and she is shot after accidentally tripping the silent holdup alarm.
The store manager tells the police dispatch it is probably a false alarm as the girl that is working there is new and probably opened the safe without turning the alarm off but she will check it out.
The store manager comes in finding her employee laying in the floor half dead from a gunshot wound, she is rushed to the hospital in critical condition.
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