Always Watching by Lynette Eason

Author:Lynette Eason [Eason, Lynette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC042060, FIC042040, FIC027110, Bodyguards—Fiction, Celebrities—Fiction, Stalkers—Fiction, Suspense fiction, Mystery fiction, Christian fiction
ISBN: 9781441245502
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2015-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

[22]

Olivia could tell the idea that someone murdered Justine was almost too much for him to take in. But she knew that, in a strange way, he found it more palatable than the fact that she would have chosen to take her own life.

Wade kept his head down as he worked on the boat inside the boathouse. Olivia stood well away from the edge of the water, watching him. She knew he was thinking. Analyzing her theory about Justine. Every once in a while she’d walk to the door and step outside. She noticed he never looked up when she came back in. “Wade, you really need to be more aware.”

“Of what?”

“Of someone coming up behind you. I’ve left and come back twice and you never even looked up.”

“That’s because I knew it was you.”

“How?”

“By the way you walk. You have a very distinct soft-sounding step.”

“No I don’t,” she scoffed. At his raised brow, she paused, curious. “I do? Really?”

“Really.” He grinned—not a big grin and not one filled with joy, but at least it was better than the grim face he’d been wearing. Though she could hardly blame him for it.

“Will you tell me about your wife?” The grin faded and she almost regretted the question.

He stopped what he was doing and stared at her. “What do you want to know?”

“What was she like?”

He shrugged. “We met in high school. She was popular, always the life of the party.” He looked up and she saw his mind go back in time. “She was pretty.” He glanced at her. “And she knew it.”

“Ah. One of those.”

“Yeah. But I was a jock and arrogant. We were made for each other. Together we were such a cliché.”

“Clichés happen for a reason.”

“True.” He shook his head. “High school was a blast. We did the whole partying, drinking thing. Some recreational drugs and never got caught, never suffered any consequences. No one died, nothing bad happened. Pamela and I got a marriage license the day after graduation and had a local pastor marry us. Pamela’s parents freaked. I thought my dad would write me out of the will, but we both started college in the fall and I think our parents were actually shocked. Then Pamela got pregnant.” He dropped his head and closed his eyes for a brief moment. “She was furious. Wanted to have an abortion. I told her if she did, we were done.” He cleared his throat. “You have to understand, after she got pregnant, she let me know quite plainly that she didn’t marry me because she loved me, she loved my money and my ability to show her a good time and she relished the status of being a Savage.”

“Oh Wade, I’m so sorry.”

“It hurt. I won’t try to shrug it off and say it was okay. It wasn’t. I was . . . crushed. But I wanted our baby. I convinced her that she’d wind up with nothing if she had an abortion.”

“So she had the baby.”

“Yes.” His hands clenched into fists.

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