Deadly Countdown by Margaret Daley

Author:Margaret Daley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: suspense, mystery, christian romance, christian fiction, new adult
Publisher: Margaret Daley

Chapter Eight

Allie wound her arms around Remy and deepened the kiss. She’d hit a low yesterday, making her revisit how she’d felt after Landry’s death. She’d missed and needed Remy. She didn’t want to see him leave.

When Remy’s hands slipped down her back and pressed her closer, he slanted her across him as he cradled her against him. They had never shared a kiss like this, and she began to wonder what she was doing. But then he began nibbling a path to her ear and caressing it with his mouth.

“You’re so beautiful, not just outwardly but inwardly too.” Remy pulled back and stared into her eyes.

His look melted any doubts about what she had just done. She’d wanted to do that ever since he came home. To feel close to someone again.

She traced his mouth, wanting to kiss him, wanting to unburden herself finally. When he nipped her finger and caught it between his teeth, she knew it was time to tell him what happened the last day she and Landry were together before he went out fishing in the bayou.

Allie scooted back and clasped her legs to her chest. “I need to tell you something not even Aunt Evelina knows.”

His eyebrows slashed downward.

“Landry and I had a huge fight right before he went fishing the day he died. We both said things we didn’t mean. We got along great except for one thing. He loved going out with his buddies drinking a couple of times a week. I was getting concerned…” The fear she’d experienced when he didn’t return until the early hours of the morning deluged her as though, at this second, she were in her bed unable to sleep until she heard him stumble into the house.

“About his drinking?”

Swallowing hard, she nodded. “I still remember how my mama was before the state sent me here to live. I would get up in the morning and find her passed out on the floor in the living room. I loved Landry, but I didn’t want to see that happen again. Before we married, he would drink occasionally, but not like he did afterward. We were trying to have a baby and couldn’t. That might have been the reason. Or maybe I was.” Tears blurred her vision, and she closed her eyes.

The gentle whisper of his fingers moving across her cheeks urged her to finish sharing what she’d kept secret for three years—the guilt of that last day with Landry eating at her.

She looked at Remy again, and her heartbeat throbbed at the concern she glimpsed in his eyes. “On the dock at the house we rented, we were yelling at each other. I never used to yell—not until a few months before he died. He had made me so mad. As he started to get into the pirogue, I told him if he didn’t come home right after fishing then not to come home at all. He slapped me, screaming he would do what he wanted, not what I wanted.

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