Love the Sinner by Lynn Bulock

Author:Lynn Bulock [Bulock, Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9780786279395
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2004-12-31T23:00:00+00:00

9

Of course I went straight to someone I could pour my heart out to. “Have you thought about a job?” Linnette was looking over her reading glasses at me as we sat at our familiar table at the Coffee Corner. As usual, I was drinking decaf because my nerves didn’t need any more caffeine with all the other problems I had going on.

“Definitely. I’ve got to do something to keep from going nuts, and just to have some money coming in for a while. There’s precious little in my account, and the longer that Edna’s gone, the less I can figure out about what to do about the household expenses.” Bills would start to come soon for utilities and services that she usually paid, and I certainly didn’t want the electricity or the phone cut off. With Ben and my mom so far away, the computer and the telephone were my life-lines right now.

“I think you’d more than qualify for some of the work-study stuff that the university has open. Not everything they suggest for graduate students involves teaching, you know.”

Actually, I didn’t know. Until recently I hadn’t thought about who all these people were in places like Linnette’s bookstore and the coffee shop where we sat drinking our lattes, but it made sense that many of them were probably students. “Do you have anything open in the store?” It would suit me as well as anything, and give me a chance to see my friend.

Linnette shook her head. “Not right now, but I’m pretty sure that there’s something open here at the coffee shop. There almost always is. If you want me to ask Maria when she comes in, I’ll be happy to.”

“Please.” It was the most mindless job I could imagine, for the most part, which would be right up my alley at the present. I didn’t think I could handle anything too far up the ladder from mindless with everything else going on in life.

“I will. And I have to tell you that I’m more than a little concerned about the rest of what you’ve shared.” It hadn’t taken me long once I’d gotten there to tell her all about Fernandez’s dire warnings. “Do you really think he’s right, and that someone was out to get you instead?”

I swirled my drink around in the cup, staring at the pale foam on top. “It’s possible. It was my car that Dennis was driving the night of his accident, and he normally never drove it. No one looking out for him would have expected him to be driving that car unless they’d followed him all the way from Heather’s.”

Linnette nodded, looking worried. “And we know that nobody who was there that last day expected him to be drinking out of your teacup, or anything else.”

I’d been thinking about that one even more than the car. “Not when they dropped the drugs in the cup, for sure. Unless it was someone on staff, and that hardly seems likely.”

“According to what the police have told us so far, anyway.

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