Damned if You Don't by Anita Page

Author:Anita Page [Page, Anita]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
Publisher: L&L Dreamspell
Published: 2012-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

The phone woke her. She thought it was the middle of the night, then saw it wasn’t even ten-thirty. She’d only just fallen asleep. David, sounding odd. Joy hadn’t shown up for a dinner date with Caroline, and she wasn’t answering her cell. He wondered if Hannah had heard from her.

She hadn’t, Hannah said, but maybe Joy had forgotten. Maybe she’d shut off her phone and gone to bed early. Talking down his worry even while she took it on.

“The thing is, the dinner was Joy’s idea,” David said. “She called Caroline a couple of days ago and said she needed to talk. She’s been really depressed, thinking about quitting the internship, quitting law school.”

Quitting law school? The first Hannah had heard of it. “Did you call her apartment?”

“They don’t have a landline and I don’t know her roommates’ cell numbers.” There was a long pause. Then he said, “Okay, this is what I’ll do. I’ll stop by the apartment early tomorrow morning, catch her before she goes to work and see what’s going on. You’re probably right. She must have forgotten about dinner.”

“You’ll call me as soon as you talk to her? I have an early meeting, so leave a message on my cell.”

“Absolutely.” Then he added, “Hey, don’t you start worrying. I’m sure everything’s fine.”

“Who’s worried?” Hannah said, and she heard him snort. A world class worrier, he’d once called her.

As she hung up, she heard William coming up the stairs, pausing outside their room and moving on. If she called to him, he’d come in and she’d tell him about Joy, and he’d say everything was going to be okay. And she’d feel the way she had before on the back porch. Together, but not together. Disoriented, lost in space. She’d handle this on her own.

She thought she wouldn’t be able to sleep, but she did, fitfully, until the sound of water rushing through pipes woke her at four. William taking a shower. She lay in bed, listening to him move around. After she heard the door close and his car pull out of the driveway, she tried to fall back asleep. An hour later she gave up, put on sweats and took the dog out. The street was empty, the only sound the clamor of birds. The eastern sky held the faintest hint of pink, and the morning air was almost unbearably sweet.

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