Caught Redhanded by Gayle Roper

Author:Gayle Roper
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction, Religious, General
ISBN: 9781426804700
Publisher: Love Inspired
Published: 2007-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

FOURTEEN

When it was time for me to go to Mercers’ to pick up Bailey shortly after one, Mac wanted to follow me.

“I don’t want anything to happen to you, girl. I can’t afford to lose my best reporter.”

I smiled at him, understanding he meant more than just the possibility of my getting blown up, but it felt too weird having my boss tail me. “I’ll be fine. Whoever it is can’t do anything to me in the middle of town in the middle of the day. Besides, he can’t know what kind of car I’m driving now unless he was hiding behind a tree at Mr. Hamish’s or in our back lot when I pulled in. And Bailey will be with me all afternoon.”

“Some protection she’ll be.”

“Bailey will be more than enough to keep him away. What’s he going to do? Kill us both?”

He didn’t look convinced. “If something happens to you, Curt will haunt me for the rest of my life. I don’t even want to think about Dawn’s reaction.”

“You can grump all you want,” I said, unmoved by his glass-half-empty assumptions, “but I’ve learned your secret.”

His eyes narrowed. “What secret?”

“You’re a chocolate-covered cherry.”

He looked appalled.

“Hard shell on the outside but soft and sweet inside.”

“Please! Spread rumors like that and I might as well pack my bags and leave town.”

I was grinning as I left the newsroom and went to my navy rental. As I drove to the Mercers’, I started thinking about how life often juxtaposed the extraordinary, like exploding cars, with the ordinary, like teasing your boss or going on interviews. When something amazing, bizarre or astonishing happens, it seems as though there should be a break in time to enable adjustments, whether physical, emotional or spiritual, on the part of the person experiencing the overwhelming events.

But it doesn’t work that way. Life continues, responsibilities remain and appointments wait. All a person could do was shrug and keep going, trusting that the Lord knew what was happening and was there to care for you.

Of course, maybe the Lord knew that doing the ordinary was the best way to cope with the painful and unexpected. Routines center reeling thoughts and feelings, giving structure to a life suddenly gone off on a strange tangent, forcing you to go forward when all you want to do is hide in bed with the covers over your head.

Bailey came down the walk in a slow, careful stride, opened the passenger door and slid in. Her glorious hair was caught at her neck in a large gold clip and her eyes were heavily rimmed with black. Her face was very pale and carefully blank, and I wondered what she thought about spending the afternoon with me and the ministry’s various clients. After she buckled her seat belt, stretched as far as it would go, she sat with her hands clasped in her lap. I noticed for the first time that her nails were bitten to the quick. They were also painted black.

She was

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