Haunted by Death (By Death Series Book 2) by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer [Mayer, Dale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense, Mystery
ISBN: 9781927461655
Publisher: Valley Publishing
Published: 2013-09-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Meg took a large bite of the half sandwich in her hand. She’d avoided talking about Pete, but that didn’t in any way stop her mind from twisting about him. Would he understand she’d come here for work? Even if she wasn’t getting paid, she was helping to solve Cia’s case. But then he didn’t know about Cia, because she hadn’t told him about her.

He did know about the grave, though.

She stared down at the sandwich. Ham and cheese heaped with vegetables. And it tasted like cardboard. She dropped her hands and leaned her head back, wishing she hadn’t seen him. Now she couldn’t stop thinking about him and what had been and all that it could have been.

The warmth oozing from Chad made her feel bad, yet good. In fact, right now her emotions were all over the place.

“How’s the sandwich?”

“It’s good. I’m just tired.”

“Eat up. It will ease back the fatigue.” Chad drove with one hand. The other held the sandwich he had partly scarfed in a few bites. He’d already eaten a full sandwich. Meg looked down at her half uneaten one and realized he was right.

She took another bite and chewed slowly.

“Are you scared of him?”

She shook her head, swallowed and answered, “No. I just haven’t cleared things up with him. It feels awkward. We’re not together and we’re not apart. It’s over, but I haven’t told him.”

“You haven’t spoken to him at all.” The disapproval in his voice made her realize the situation from a man’s perspective. “No. I left before he returned. I really felt it was over when he walked out; that he knew it and I knew it and that he was giving me time to get out.”

“But…?”

“But, because we haven’t actually had that final conversation, it feels incomplete.”

“Do you know when he’s due home?”

“No. Normally, he’d text me, call me…something, but this time there’s been nothing. Which I guess is reasonable if we have just broken up.” She stared moodily out the window as she finished her sandwich. “But then I never contacted him either.”

“Maybe you should.”

“I was just thinking that. But I doubt he’ll answer.” She brushed her hands off, scrunched up the wrapper and stuffed it back into the bag. She grabbed her phone and texted Pete. Where are you?

She waited. Nothing.

“No answer. He comes out here to get away. Hates his cell phone at the best of times.” She couldn’t believe the relief she felt. It had been a shock to think she’d spied Pete at the restaurant. And the fear of a confrontation had kept her on edge, worrying.

She was back at Pete’s favorite place with Chad, but without Pete. How would he react? It was not like she’d planned this, but Pete wouldn’t know that. She didn’t want him thinking she’d broken off with him to start up with a new guy – or worse, having been engaged in an affair while still with him.

She was still mulling things over when the truck slowed. She sat up and surveyed her surroundings.

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