At first sight by Nicholas Sparks

Author:Nicholas Sparks [Sparks, Nicholas]
Format: epub
Tags: American Light Romantic Fiction, Fiction - General, Detective and mystery stories, Romance: Modern, Married people, Contemporary, North Carolina, General, Romance, Suspense Fiction, Romance - Contemporary, Suspense, Fiction, Pregnant women
ISBN: 9780446401265
Publisher: New York : Warner Books : 2007, c2005.
Published: 2007-09-01T11:26:58+00:00

At First Sight

Eleven

Hours later, Jeremy sat in the easy chair at his parents’ brownstone in Queens, staring out the window. He’d ended up borrowing Doris’s car earlier that afternoon to change clothes and grab his things from Greenleaf, then rushing to the airport. Noting his expression, Doris hadn’t questioned his request, and during the drive he’d replayed the argument a hundred times.

At first, it had been easy to stay angry at the way Lexie had twisted the facts to her own advantage, but as the miles rolled past and his emotions settled, he began to wonder whether she might have been right. Not about all of it-she had some responsibility for the way the argument had escalated-but certainly on some counts. Had he really been angry about her lack of trust, or was he reacting to the stress he was under and taking it out on her? If he was completely honest, he might admit his stress was part of the equation, but it wasn’t only work-related stress. There was still the matter of the e-mails.

E-mails meant to make him question whether the baby was his. E-mails intended to make him suspicious of Lexie. E-mails that seemed to have served their purpose. But who had sent them? And why?

Who knew that Lexie was pregnant? Doris, of course, which again made her the obvious choice. But he just couldn’t see her doing that, and according to Lexie, she didn’t even know how to use a computer. Whoever had sent the e-mails was an expert.

Then there was Lexie. He remembered her expression when he’d told her that he’d seen her name. Unless her confusion had been faked, she hadn’t known her name was in the journal. Had Doris ever told her that she knew? Had Lexie ever told Doris? Depending on when the miscarriage had happened, neither one may have said anything at all to the other.

So who knew?

He placed a call to his hacker friend again and left a message, telling him it was urgent and that he really needed the information. Before hanging up, he asked him to call his cell phone as soon as he came up with anything.

In an hour, he’d be heading out to the bachelor party, but he wasn’t in the mood. As good as it would be to spend some time with Alvin, he didn’t want to get into all of this with him. Tonight was supposed to be fun, but right now having fun didn’t seem possible.

“Shouldn’t you be getting ready?”

Jeremy saw his father coming in from the kitchen. “I am ready,” he said.

“What’s with the shirt? You look like a lumberjack.”

In his haste to pack and get out of town-and realizing he’d sweat through the clothes he’d worn earlier at the closing-Jeremy had pulled the flannel shirt off its hanger. Glancing down, he wondered whether it was a subconscious effort to admit that Lexie had been right. “You don’t like it?”

“It’s different, that’s for sure,” his father remarked. “You buy that down there?”

“Lexie got it for me.

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