A Perfect Husband by Aphrodite Jones

Author:Aphrodite Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2013-04-05T04:00:00+00:00

For a few days prior to the surprise party, Elizabeth had been getting some hang-up calls that had been making her nervous. On that same wintery Saturday afternoon, just minutes after she spoke to Michael, Liz called Amybeth looking for Barbara. It temporarily had stopped snowing, but the roads were still dangerous, and Liz told Amybeth that she was hoping to catch Barbara or get a message to her, because she needed to ask Barbara to spend the night.

“Why do you want Barbara to stay there tonight? You’ll have so many people in the house already,” Amybeth wondered.

“I’ve been having stress headaches lately and sinus headaches,” Liz told her.

“Well, I’ve been having those myself. It’s the allergies from the farmers’ fields. I can drop you by some tablets I take—”

“No. No, I would really like Barbara to stay with me tonight,” Liz insisted. “I’ve been getting some hang-up calls this week, and I think someone might be watching the house.”

“Hang-up calls? What do you mean?”

“It’s just someone calling me a bunch of times this week. Three times a day, maybe,” Liz told her. “I don’t know what it means. But I’ve been feeling eerie around the house.”

“Do you have any idea who it might be?”

“Absolutely none. It’s the craziest thing. I pick up the phone and someone is there faintly breathing. But they’re not saying anything.”

“I’ll call around to see if I can find Barbara, okay?” Amybeth said. “But if you need to, you and the girls can always come stay with us.”

Of course Liz would never impose on people like that. She promised Amybeth that she would make sure all her doors were locked every night, and then Liz moved the conversation back to the subject of the party. As Elizabeth finished listing the various dishes friends were preparing for the surprise, Amybeth asked if there was anything else she could do, anything Liz could think of that might make her feel better.

But Liz really had nothing in mind. She was sorry she’d worried her friend, and said she was going back to finish her chores of the day, expecting to see Amybeth and a houseful of people by early evening.

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