Bonkers by Michelle Holman

Author:Michelle Holman [Holman, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7304-0115-5
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2007-03-13T16:00:00+00:00

17

Lisa watched Sherry’s car disappear into the darkness and tried not to feel like she’d been abandoned. She looked at Dan’s house. She was late getting home because she’d spent so much time talking to Sherry. They’d examined her citizenship problem from every angle and come up with zilch.

Dan opened the door before Lisa could even get her keys out of her handbag. ‘You’re late. I was worried.’ He didn’t look or sound very friendly. His hair was mussed, a sure sign something was bothering him. It had been mussed a lot lately. He’d loosened his Yosemite Sam tie and undone the top buttons of his shirt.

Lisa trailed dispiritedly past him. ‘Sorry.’

Dan frowned at her drooping figure. ‘I wasn’t sure if you’d run out of money for the bus fare home,’ he said ironically before adding, ‘But I see you got a ride.’

He was perturbed when Lisa failed to answer his unspoken question. He’d been waiting anxiously for the past hour for her to come home, all the time imagining the worst. Twice there’d been a knock at the front door, and each time Dan answered a neighbour had been standing there with a dead-looking plant in their hands asking if Lisa was home. He’d taken the plants and put them with the rest of the dead and dying vegetation beginning to fill one side of the garage, thinking that at this rate he’d have to start parking his car on the road.

When he heard a car door slam outside the house, Dan just had time to see the vehicle pull away. It had looked to him like a black SUV.

Jack Millar owned one just like it.

Propping his hands on his hips, Dan stared grimly at Lisa’s slumped shoulders as she hopped away from him; whatever she had been doing that afternoon seemed to have drained her.

The police had finally made contact about interviewing Lisa, or rather, Linda. Apparently they had called several times this week to arrange a time to take her statement, but hadn’t been able to get hold of her and she hadn’t picked up any of the messages they’d left on the answering machine. It drove Dan nuts. She treated his home, her home, like she was a boarder, which made listening to Dan’s messages off-limits.

‘Lisa, did you get any calls from the police? They said they’ve been trying to contact you to take your statement,’ he asked in a hard voice.

She stopped in the hallway and looked at him with wide eyes. ‘No. I’ve hardly been in.’

Where the hell have you been? Dan wondered grimly but refused to ask.

Lisa behaved more like his housekeeper than his wife. Ever since that night in the kitchen, she had hidden away from him. She cooked his evening meal, his dirty laundry was returned clean to his wardrobe, the house was spotless, but the essence of her—the laughter and quirkiness—had disappeared. She hid in her room and took herself God knew where during the day when he was out. She asked Dan for nothing.

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