Literally Dead by Lois Winston

Author:Lois Winston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lois Winston
Published: 2016-09-10T00:00:00+00:00

TEN

Talk about an OMG moment!

Marcella had mousy brown hair to Lovinia’s platinum blonde, and Marcella was petite whereas Lovinia was Amazonian. Staring into Marcella’s red-rimmed eyes earlier, I’d seen something that hadn’t registered at the time but had since itched like a cerebral mosquito bite. I now realized behind those glasses with their thick lenses hid Lovinia’s eyes.

Those blank green eyes had stared up at me last night and would forever be etched into my brain. I hadn’t noticed the similarity earlier because yesterday I’d been focused on Lovinia throughout the drama unfolding at the hotel registration desk. I’d noticed Marcella more in terms of her body language, not any specific features. Even if I had paid more attention to her, the physical distance between us, coupled with her glasses, probably would have prevented me from getting a good look at her eyes.

However, Blake knew nothing of Lovinia’s reputation as the Queen of Romance. He’d observed both women with equal impartiality and noticed what I’d missed. For that matter, what everyone else had missed, as well, given that neither Paisley nor any other author had mentioned anything about the two women being related. Who knew my husband was a budding Sherlock Holmes?

Questions played pinball inside my head, bouncing back and forth frenetically. How could all the other SARA authors, who had known Lovinia and Marcella for so many years, not see the resemblance? Many of them had come in contact with Lovinia and Marcella countless times. Did Lovinia’s constant histrionics and egotistical personality overshadow her mousy assistant to the extent that everyone’s focus dwelled constantly on Lovinia and only Lovina? Was Marcella always hidden in plain sight, swallowed up by the dark hole of Lovinia’s shadow? After all, people see what they want to see. No one ever really saw Marcella because she faded into the woodwork.

This blood connection must be what caused Marcella to put up with Lovinia’s crap and stay with her all those years. But if so, why keep the relationship a secret?

“Earth to Gracie.”

I glanced down at Blake’s hand shaking my knee. “Huh?”

“Where were you?”

“Lost on the Isle of Confusion. You’re absolutely certain they’re related?”

“Of course not but I saw a striking resemblance, especially—”

“In their eyes.”

“That and their ears.”

“Their ears?” Blake noticed Lovinia and Marcella’s ears?

“They have the same ears.”

I stared in amazement at my husband. Who notices people’s ears unless they’re enormous and standing out from their heads? “Should I be worried you were checking out other women so intently?”

“Slow-moving line. The unexpected drama broke up the monotony.”

“Maybe you should offer your powers of observation to Detective Vanwhatshisname.”

“If he’s questioned Marcella, he most likely already knows of the relationship—if there is one.”

“How could there not be one with what you’re telling me?”

Blake shrugged. “It could be a random genetic coincidence.”

Right. And little green men from Mars built the pyramids.

My buzzing phone interrupted us. I fished it out of my messenger bag and checked the display. “I have to leave,” I told Blake. “The SARA luncheon starts in fifteen minutes.

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