And Now You're Mine by Annie Harland Creek

Author:Annie Harland Creek [Creek, Annie Harland]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Evangeline yawned and stretched out her arms above her head. “I feel like I’ve slept for a week. What time is it?”

“It’s after 4:00 PM.”

“You’re shitting me. I rarely nap in the afternoon.” Her left eye winked suggestively. “You must have worn me out.” She ran her fingers through the masses of unruly curls and yawned again. “Who was that on the phone?”

“Nothing to worry about, go back to sleep.” He reached down to tuck her in, but she stopped him with a slap to his hand.

“You’ve always been brutally honest with me. Don’t start lying to me now.”

He plonked down onto the bed beside her. “That was Palmer. While you slept, he swept your home for fingerprints.”

She sat up in bed, a hopeful expression on her face. “Do they have any leads?”

He shook his head, wondering how much he should tell her.

“Whoever broke in wore gloves.” That was the truth. Omitting to tell her that Anna had a vision wasn’t exactly a lie. Or was it?

Her downcast expression troubled him. If that news upset her, how could he tell her about the earlier phone conversation?

“What is it you’re not telling me?” Her voice rose in pitch. “Is it about the scroll? Have you changed your mind about loaning me the money?”

“The money would have been a gift, not a loan.” A heaviness weighed down on his chest. A sensation he had long forgotten. It pained him to know the grief his words would cause her.

“Would have? You’re not going to give me the money?” she sat up in the bed, her breasts heaving under the thin fabric of the shirt he’d earlier discarded to the floor. “Look, Chris. I’m sorry that I didn’t hide the scroll well enough to fool the thieves. Please, I need that money. My mother –”

“The money will not help your mother now.”

Her beautiful dark eyes widened, and she continued to shake her head while he told her what he feared would break her heart.

“I called the hospice earlier to make the necessary arrangements for your mother’s care. They’d been trying to call you.”

“No.” she sobbed, holding her hands over her ears. “I won’t listen to this. I don’t want to hear this.” Tears spilled down her cheeks. “She’s getting better. We’re going to find a cure.”

He leaned towards her and she collapsed into his arms. Her tears soaked his shirt as he held her tight to his chest. “The doctor said she died peacefully in her sleep.”

“I don’t believe you.” Her wails reverberated through his chest cavity. “They wouldn’t give you that information.”

“I told them I was your husband.” He felt her body stiffen in his arms. “There was nothing to be done for her.” He’d already called every blood specialist in the world. Evangeline’s doctor had emailed him the case files. No one had seen anything like her disease. No amount of money would have changed that.

He lifted her chin with his index finger, so he could be sure she heard his words.

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