Her Homecoming Wish by Jo McNally

Author:Jo McNally
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-11-08T14:56:15+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Dan was only five minutes late to Five and Design Saturday afternoon. Considering he was on shift, that wasn’t bad. He could have been on the other side of the county, but he’d lucked out. He parked the patrol car in front of the boutique and called in that he was grabbing lunch in Gallant Lake. Only a slight fabrication, since he’d picked up a sandwich to go at the Chalet before dashing over to watch Chloe try on party dresses for her big modeling gig at the upcoming charity event.

“Daddy! Look at all these dresses!” His daughter ran to give him a quick hug, then pointed to the rack full of purple glitter and lace. Dan looked at Susanne and tried not to sound too much like an old grump.

“Those are a little grown-up for an eight-year-old, don’t you think?”

He must have failed at the not-an-old-grump thing, because his ex-wife narrowed her eyes at him as Chloe ran back to the dress rack.

“They’re party dresses, Dan. Little girls like to dress up. Just because it has sequins doesn’t mean it’s risqué.”

Mel Brannigan walked into the shop from a back room. “Risqué? Relax, Dad. You know I’d never do that.” She smiled at Chloe and pulled two sparkly, princessy dresses off the rack. “Let’s try these first, okay?”

Chloe clapped her hands. Maybe Dan was being a fuddy-duddy. After all, Chloe was happy, and the whole thing was for charity. He was able to stay long enough to see Chloe twirl around in three purple dresses before he had to get back to work. Susanne gave him another dose of stink eye, as if she didn’t know what he did for a living or what his hours were. He’d told Mack his marriage ended because of crossed hours and growing apart, but really his job had killed it. And Susanne’s fears over it.

He was tempted to stop by the liquor store to see if Mack was there, but he’d been out of his vehicle long enough. Time to get back to work. Besides, he’d said yes to sharing a Macallan with her later tonight, so he had that to look forward to.

But by the end of the shift, he wasn’t sure that was such a great idea. It had been a miserable Saturday night. An overdose on a country road, which he’d luckily been able to reverse with Narcan. But the screams of the woman’s three young children in the back seat, thinking their mommy had died, would haunt him for a long time. Then there was a break-in at the hair salon. No one was there by the time he arrived, but they’d clearly been looking for cash. When they didn’t find any, they’d crowbarred the cash register right off the counter and took off with it. That’s when someone spotted them running out the shattered front door and called it in.

Martie Williams had owned the salon for thirty years. She’d been adamant that she didn’t need an alarm system.

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