An Honorable Man by Watson Margaret

Author:Watson, Margaret [Watson, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-11-12T04:25:18+00:00

Chapter 9

Eddie’s house looked the same as it always had, the grass a little too long and the paint a little too faded. At least some things hadn’t changed, Luke told himself as he rang the doorbell.

Eddie answered the door wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt that was blotched with sweat. When he saw who was standing there, surprise and wariness filled his eyes for a moment, then he smiled and opened the door.

“Luke, you son of a gun. What are you doing here?”

“After I saw you the other day I realized it’d been a long time,” Luke answered easily. “When I called the precinct, they told me you were off today. I thought I’d stop by, see if you were interested in lunch.”

Eddie glanced at his watch, a high-tech model full of buttons and gauges. “Kind of early for lunch, isn’t it, buddy?”

Luke shrugged. “I wanted to catch you before you found something else to do today.”

“Come on in.” Eddie opened the door and Luke walked into the house. “I won’t be able to make lunch, but we can catch up while I finish my workout.”

As they walked through the house that used to be as familiar to Luke as his own, he couldn’t help noticing the changes. “Looks like you finally got your act together in here,” he commented, looking around at the new furniture and the expensive stereo and big-screen television.

“I was getting tired of listening to my sister and mother harp about my bachelor’s existence,” Eddie answered. He waved a hand dismissively at the expensive furnishings. “I figured that I could kill two birds with one stone and stop their complaints while I made myself comfortable.”

“Seems like a lot of money to spend to keep your sister’s mouth shut. Why didn’t you just stop inviting her over?” Luke took one last look around as Eddie led him to the spare bedroom.

“Hey, I made some good investments and decided I might as well enjoy it now. Life is too short to be so tight. But then, you always were too conservative about money. I guess it was because you were an old married man, right, buddy?”

“I guess.”

Luke kept his face poker straight, but Eddie realized he’d made a faux pas. He turned around, contrition on his face. “Hey, I’m sorry, Luke. I didn’t mean to throw it in your face like that.”

“Don’t worry about it. And besides, you were right. I never was a swinging bachelor even when I was a swinging bachelor.”

“And when was that? When you were twelve?”

“I met Linda when we were sixteen,” he said, then added a shade defensively, “but we didn’t get married until we were twenty.”

“Yeah, a couple of senior citizens,” Eddie scoffed, turning to his exercise equipment. The argument was a familiar one. Before Luke’s wife was killed, Eddie was the only one he’d confided in about his dissatisfaction with his marriage. Eddie had always maintained that it was because they’d married so young. Luke knew there was more to it than that, but there were some things you didn’t talk about, not even with your partner.

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