A Widow's Guilty Secret by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: cookie429, Extratorrents, Kat
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-12-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Nick wasn’t one of those people who had a favorite restaurant or even a favorite dish. Ever since his divorce, he was more apt to eat whenever he was hungry rather than at a given time. He adhered to structure in his professional life. His private life, however, was a different matter. It was entirely flexible.

So when he sat at the kitchen table and the sheriff’s widow placed a Spanish omelet before him, urging him to “dig in,” he was surprised to discover his appetite kicking in. His taste buds came to life as a rather spicy, tantalizing taste registered when he took his first bite of the omelet.

Nick looked down at his plate as if he’d just had a whole new taste experience. That was as surprising to him as his unexpected attraction to Suzy Burris had been.

“What’s in this?” he asked.

“Is it too spicy for you?” she guessed, concerned. Lori had opted to take her breakfast later and was tending to Andy so it was just the two of them in the kitchen. Suzy slid into the chair directly opposite her unexpected guest.

“No, it’s not too spicy,” he allowed, “but it is definitely spicy. And really good,” he told her belatedly. He wasn’t much on giving compliments so it felt rather awkward on his tongue. But he thought it only right to let her know that he was enjoying what she’d just made. “What’s in this?” he asked again.

She merely smiled, pleased that she’d actually made something that the detective enjoyed eating. It had been a long time since she’d gotten positive feedback of any kind, and that included on her cooking. The only way she knew if Peter liked something or not was that if he didn’t like what she’d made, he’d leave it on his plate.

“Oh, a little bit of everything. That’s what’s so neat about this recipe, you can use practically anything you have on hand that’s edible. This time around I used ham, cheese, mushrooms, eggs, of course and one tiny, diced-up jalapeño. That’s the spicy part,” she told him with a grin, then nodded over toward the stove. “There’s more if you’re still hungry.”

“Maybe later,” he told her. “Right now, I have a feeling that if I get too full, I’m just going to get sleepy, and there’s no time for that. The clock’s ticking on this,” he said with emphasis.

That had a very ominous sound to it, Suzy thought. “What aren’t you telling me?” she asked.

He’d made a quick pit stop to his desk at the station and had run into one of the FBI special agents who had been assigned to the triple homicide. The special agent had yet to figure out how, but he felt that the murders were somehow tied in to Dr. Grayson’s disappearance. And the longer the woman remained missing, the less likely, in the special agent’s opinion, that she would be found still alive.

The information had been shared with him in confidence. It

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