Catching the Bad Guy (Book Two) (Janet Maple Series) by Astor Marie

Author:Astor, Marie [Astor, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2013-05-13T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Dennis Walker was having a rotten Monday. Granted, Mondays were designed to be rotten, but this one positively stank. The same could be said about Dennis’s weekend. He had had a fight with Shoshanna on Sunday. The two of them had barely patched things up when another quarrel erupted. Not that he was particularly upset about that bit, but he was upset about the cause of it: Janet Maple.

“Who is it?” Shoshanna had demanded after Dennis declined to join her on a Caribbean getaway she had planned as a celebration of their getting back together. “Who is this other woman standing between us?”

“I’m just really busy at work right now, and I can’t get away.”

“You mean you don’t want to leave her,” Shoshanna snapped.

“It’s not true, Shoshanna. There’s no one else. I just can’t take off from work right now, that’s all.”

“Oh, please. Do you really expect me to believe that you can’t take a few days off from work? That’s never been a problem for you before. There has to be something else, or someone else.”

In Dennis’s opinion, Shoshanna had her many vices: she was needy, flighty, and downright selfish, but her worst quality was that she was insanely jealous. Her only redeeming quality was her smoking hot looks, but then there were many women with smoking hot looks.

Dennis had been extremely careful not to give Shoshanna any grounds for suspicion. The most ridiculous part of it all was that he had been faithful to Shoshanna, at least physically, not because he was in love with her but because the woman he wanted did not want him.

“You told me that you hate your job at the Treasury,” Shoshanna added imploringly. “Why don’t you just quit? I’ve got enough money for the both of us.”

Dennis shook his head. Why was it that he always ended up with the wrong kind of woman? The mere fact that Shoshanna thought him capable of leeching off of her made it clear that she knew nothing about him; to her, he was just a boy toy she would grow tired of in a matter of months, just like she had grown tired of all her other boyfriends. The only difference with Dennis was that, by being emotionally unavailable, he had not allowed her to grow tired of him. A logical question to ask was why had Dennis been putting up with Shoshanna in the first place? Unfortunately, when it came to women, Dennis Walker was not the most logical man.

“My situation at work is complicated right now, but quitting is not an option. I have to see things through, which is precisely why I can’t take time off.”

“You mean you can’t take time off because you don’t want to be away from her.”

“Who?”

“Whoever you think of when you get that faraway look in your eyes. Because I know for sure that you aren’t thinking of me.”

“There is no one else. No one else but you,” Dennis protested vainly.

“Save it, Dennis. If there is one thing that I won’t stand for, it’s lying.

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