Deadly Charade by Depaul Virna

Author:Depaul, Virna [Depaul, Virna]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, fullybook
ISBN: 9780373278244
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Linda made sure Tony was sleeping again, returned the antibiotics to the fridge, wrote him a note, then drove into town and headed for the little mom and pop grocery store she vaguely remembered from her youth. When she pulled in front, she remembered how the guy behind the counter used to let her and Kathy pick a candy out of the candy display every time their mom took them there.

It was nice to ponder memories from her childhood that weren’t so painful.

She slowly maneuvered her cart down the aisles, noticing how familiar even the clientele seemed. Two kids in bathing suits and flip-flops, hair still wet, followed their harried mother up and down the aisles. Just like how she used to follow her mom down the aisles after her mom would pick her up from the local pool.

An elderly woman leaned on her cart in the frozen food aisle, happily chatting with a young New Ager—the twentysomething woman was clad in a long tie-dyed dress and had an exotic head scarf covering her wild hair. It reminded her of a scarf Kathy had owned at one time.

Linda found herself smiling. Sure, there were a few new stores in town, but not much had changed since she’d stayed here as a kid.

So many things had changed, though.

She’d changed.

And Tony had changed, as well—at least that’s what he was claiming.

But had he really?

Automatically she found herself picking out things in the produce aisle that she knew from personal experience he liked. Surely his taste in food hadn’t changed. So long as he continued to get better, they’d only be holed up here for a day or two. Just long enough for him to tell her the truth about what was going on.

But then what?

Would he go back to Justine and...

She froze at her mental reminder that Tony had a girlfriend.

She slammed to a stop in front of the pears. Was she crazy? She was buying ingredients to make chicken soup for the man. She was playing Florence Nightingale to an addict and admitted murderer who had a girlfriend, she reminded herself.

And don’t forget that she’d slept with him. A man who belonged to another woman, no matter how she still thought of him as hers.

Shame rocked through her. She’d been the one to initiate that kiss with Tony back at her house. That it had exploded into something more than she’d been expecting didn’t matter. She’d known he had a girlfriend. She, not Linda, should be here taking care of him.

She maneuvered her cart filled with groceries to the checkout stand with leaden feet. When had things gotten so crazy?

She contemplated the question as she unloaded her groceries onto the conveyer belt, startled when the portly man behind the cash register suddenly said, “Hey, there. You look familiar. You’re not Chuck Delaney’s kid, are you?”

Her heart picked up its pace at the sudden mention of her father. A man she detested. She stared at the checker, who still held her arugula in one hand, as if frozen in motion until she responded to him.

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