Falling for the Enemy by susan meier

Author:susan meier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Linda Susan Meier

CHAPTER TEN

Three days later, an unusually hot June sun poured down and tried to bake the residents of Harmony Hills. Dressed in her black trousers and white ruffled blouse for Oscar Franklin’s funeral, Ellie barely noticed. Just when she believed she was firmly in the present moment, the hurt expression on Finn’s face would flit through her mind, and the warmth of shame would humble her again.

What would it feel like to live in a world of pain and fear? To be a boy too young to defend himself, let alone defend his mom? To be cast out into the world without money or anywhere to go? And then to finally trust someone with your secret and have that person not believe you?

She couldn’t imagine it.

But the knowledge that she’d hurt him was killing her, and rivals or not, she had to fix it. Three days had gone by without a word from him. She hadn’t seen him in town. There’d been no motorcycle roaring up and down her street. She’d driven by his office, but his Range Rover was never there. After the fiasco of her visit to his house, she couldn’t quite force herself to go there again. And he hadn’t tried to sell prepaid funeral packages at today’s funeral.

She couldn’t find him to talk this out.

With Barbara Beth taking the lead for McDermott’s at the services, Ellie had no reason to stay after the graveside prayers, and she almost bailed. In the end, she drove to the church hall, watched as Barbara Beth stood by the minister, who said grace, and then Ellie paid the Dinner Belles.

Sliding the check into her apron pocket, Sandy said, “Thanks.”

“You’re welcome.” She turned to go, but Sandy stopped her.

“Can we count on you for Samantha’s funeral tomorrow?”

She almost told Sandy that she had to go to Pittsburgh the following day. It had been what she was planning, but she suddenly realized that the after-funeral lunch for his own client was the one place Finn couldn’t hide. She could find a private minute with him, quietly apologize, and then everything would be okay.

Plus, crass as it might make her feel, given how angry Finn was with her, she needed time with the Dinner Belles. She might not be ready with her funeral packages yet—the documents were with her dad’s lawyer for approval—but she would be soon.

“Yes. I’ll be there.”

Sandy’s face brightened. “Good. We’ll see you about eight.”

She nodded. “About eight.”

She walked out of the church hall feeling better, until she realized she didn’t know how to apologize to Finn, what to say. They had been two teens whose parents had screwed up their lives. Not that her dad and Finn’s mom hadn’t tried to fix things, but while other kids were enjoying the surface lives of going to parties, experimenting with alcohol and cigarettes and maybe even drugs, with their biggest worry being their current hairdo, she and Finn were struggling with adult issues. She was the child of the town’s scarlet woman, and he was being beaten.

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