Harlequin Special Edition February 2017, Box Set 2 of 2 by Rachel Lee

Author:Rachel Lee
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488031397
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Olivia felt it in her bones; she would be seeing her aunt very soon. She just knew it. But as quickly as the good feeling had come, it faded to nothing. She shivered inside Carson’s SUV despite the unusually warm February day.

Edmund had taken a sleepy Danny back to his house for a nap, and Olivia and Carson headed over to Blue Gulch to search Blue Gulch Street and the one hotel and B and B for a yellow VW bug. Her aunt hadn’t had that car when she lived in Blue Gulch, but the style of car sounded like something her aunt would like.

“The traffic stop was two hours ago?” Olivia asked, craning her neck to look for the car as Carson turned onto Blue Gulch Street, the main drag of town where the shops and restaurants were, including the Hurley’s Homestyle Kitchen food truck. “I wonder if she’s still in town. Maybe she just passed through.” Huh. Maybe she wouldn’t be seeing her aunt so soon, after all.

“There’s only reason someone goes five miles an hour on the main road in town,” Carson said. “Because she’s looking for someone on the street or for someone in store windows.”

“You think my aunt was looking for me? Why not call? Why not come by? Why not leave a note in the mailbox?”

“Maybe she just looks for you,” he said. “Maybe she drives through Blue Gulch often, hoping to spot you, just get a glimpse of you.”

“But that would mean she still cares about me,” Olivia said.

“I’m sure she does care. Sometimes, people leave your life for reasons that have nothing to do with you. They’re consumed by something else and it drives them away.”

“Like your nine-year-old client’s father, most likely,” she said.

“Exactly. I always say I don’t get it, but I guess I do. I mean, I understand, intellectually, why some people walk out on their lives and families. But I’ll never get it emotionally.”

She nodded. “You look left, I’ll look right.” But nowhere that she could see, on the street or parked in the spots, was a yellow Beetle.

“You have no idea at all what caused the estrangement between your mother and aunt?” Carson asked.

They passed the library and the coffee shop and the food truck, which had a nice line. Olivia scanned the parking lot by the town green. No yellow Beetle.

“I know that my aunt never wanted to talk about fortune-telling or the family ‘gifts’ and that there was a secret. I’m not sure whose—my mother’s or my aunt’s. I once heard the tail end of an argument and my aunt saying, ‘Don’t you ever bring them up again,’ but that was the last I heard of that and when I asked my mother what ‘them’ referred to, she just waved her hand dismissively. Three weeks later, my aunt sold her house, which I discovered because of the sold sign on the lawn and she was gone. No goodbye. Nothing. That was five years ago.

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