Inn Danger by Dixie Davis

Author:Dixie Davis [Davis, Dixie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: North Carolina, Mystery
Publisher: Dusky Cove Books
Published: 2019-06-21T22:00:00+00:00

Lori gave herself one hour. Sixty minutes to rotate the laundry, check in with her guests — all doing fine — and bawl her eyes out.

She’d fallen for a cheater. Someone who let his wife fake her own death, helped her hide from her parents who had only ever loved her — like they loved him, and he’d lied to their faces for the last eight years.

This was unbelievable.

When her mental timer was up — maybe a little closer to seventy minutes, but she’d allow it — Lori washed her face. She brushed her hair, changed into something more comfortable, washed her face again, and steeled herself for what she was about to do.

She was about to rip a family apart.

But didn’t Ray and Katie deserve to know? Wasn’t that the whole reason she was even investigating Debbie’s death? Certainly not to stand up for that knowing, not-even-a-little-accidental philanderer.

Lori only made it to the door of her own quarters before she stopped. She needed something to soften the blow. Anything.

There was only the one answer she had for everything: food. She warmed up the four leftover cherry tarragon sausage patties and some not-exactly-homemade croissants, stuffing them in a basket with a little less care than she usually used. She was across the street before her courage could fail her again, and she let herself in their back door again.

“Ray?” she called in a low voice.

“That you, Lori?” his reply carried from upstairs.

“Yes, it’s me again.”

“Just a minute.”

Lori set her basket on the kitchen table and fetched plates from the cabinets.

She’d call this stalling if Ray were in the room yet. So instead, it was simply preparing.

As if anything could prepare either of them for this.

And Katie . . .

She couldn’t just drop this on Katie, Lori knew. She’d have to tell Ray first. He’d know what to do. Or they’d figure it out together.

Ray finally appeared on the stairs, slowly lumbering down. His eyes were bloodshot and more rheumy than usual. “How are you holding up?” he asked.

“I should be asking you that.”

Ray gave her a grim frown. “We’ve had ten years to get used to losing Debbie. It’s finding her again that’s the hard part.”

Guilt pierced Lori’s heart. She couldn’t tell him Mitch knew. Could she?

Was this simply the grown-up version of tattling? Was she doing this to get back at Mitch?

One look at the man in front of her reminded Lori that she owed it to Ray.

She pulled the chair out at the table and helped him into his seat. “Brought you some cherry tarragon sausage — homemade — and some croissants.”

“Trying to fatten me up, are you?” Ray’s voice was without humor.

She tried to laugh and fetched the margarine from the fridge.

“Make that butter me up.” He popped open the tub and did just that with his croissant.

He needed to know. But how could she tell him? Finding out she’d been alive all this time was hard enough. Her stomach tied itself in knots in the near silence.

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