Flamingo Diner by Sherryl Woods

Author:Sherryl Woods [Sherryl Woods]
Format: epub
Tags: Romance: Modern, Contemporary, General, Romance, Romance - Contemporary, Fiction, Fiction - Romance, Adult, Romantic suspense fiction, Romance - Adult, Suicide, Florida, Diners (Restaurants) - Florida, Diners (Restaurants)
ISBN: 9781551667225
Publisher: Mira
Published: 2003-09-01T22:02:34.671000+00:00

Cori looked as if she wanted to cry. Emma felt a sinking sensation in the pit of her stomach the instant she saw her. She reached out and gripped Matt’s hand.

“Jennifer’s not here, is she?” she asked Cori.

“I told her it was really important, but she said she had another commitment and that it was important, too.” Cori regarded them apologetically. “I honestly don’t know what’s gotten into her lately. She’s not herself. She hasn’t been for weeks and weeks now.”

“You said something like that at your house last night. What’s going on?” Emma asked her.

“I can’t explain it exactly. She’s been way stressed out, snapping at me in a way she never had before, refusing to take calls. Then she vanished without a word. I had no idea where she’d gone or when she’d be back till she finally called in the middle of last week. All I had was a note saying she’d be in touch and to put off all appointments until she told me to start scheduling them again.”

“When did she leave?” Matt asked.

“I guess the first time was a couple of months back, out of the blue. She didn’t have a vacation planned. She just left. I found a note on my desk saying there’d been some sort of emergency and that she’d be out of touch indefinitely. This from a woman who usually has a cell phone attached to one ear and one eye on the stock ticker from the second the stock exchange opens every day.” She looked at Matt. “You know how she is.”

Emma looked at Matt. “What are you thinking?” she asked.

He hesitated.

“Come on, Matt. Tell me.”

“I’m thinking that the timing is damned weird, that’s what I’m thinking.”

Emma’s breath caught. “You think her leaving is tied to my father’s death, don’t you?”

He met her gaze. “Don’t you?”

“That’s a huge leap,” she said, not wanting to believe that there was any significance to the timing.

Cori stared at Matt. “You can’t be serious. Jennifer and Emma’s dad? That’s absurd. Of all people, you should know that.”

Emma regarded Cori curiously. Why did she think Matt would have some special insight into Jennifer’s behavior? Was there something he hadn’t told her about his relationship with Jennifer? Were they something more than old classmates? She couldn’t read anything in his expression, but more than once now she’d picked up on hints that there was something he was hiding where Jennifer was concerned.

“Was Don ever here?” Matt asked, his face carefully averted from Emma.

“Well, sure, but…” Cori’s voice trailed off. She called up the date book on her computer and scanned back a few weeks. “Emma, look at this. Your dad died on the night of the seventeenth, right?”

Emma pushed aside her suspicions about Jennifer and Matt and concentrated on Jennifer’s schedule for the date her father had died. Emma’s father had been on her calendar for a four o’clock meeting. And two days later, two days after his death, Jennifer had canceled all of her appointments and left town.

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