Loving a Santini by Schroeder Melissa

Author:Schroeder, Melissa
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-939734-75-4
Publisher: Harmless Publishing
Published: 2018-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

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By the time she made it to the shop, she felt more in control. Not that she ever felt out of control--except when Nando was kissing her. She rolled her eyes as she unlocked the door. She had just slipped her keys into the lock when she felt the hairs on the back of her neck tingle. She turned around and found Richard, the client she had issues with last year. She still had a restraining order against him, but he was across the street. Probably far enough to satisfy the order. She said nothing, didn’t acknowledge him, hoping he would just leave. She had learned that engaging with Richard just set him off. After unlocking the door, she slipped inside and locked the door behind her. She didn’t open for another thirty minutes, and there was no reason to give Richard an opportunity.

Sunshine liked getting to work a little early and being there by herself. It was quiet, so quiet that she could think. Every now and then she would hear someone next door at the candle shop, but not this early. She went back to her office and picked out her favorite music and put it on. She liked all kinds of music, and she had favorites in all genres. For work, she loved the Native American chants set to drums and flutes. It spoke to her soul. Probably had to do with her being one quarter Sioux. Or was that one eighth? Her mother was always fuzzy on those kinds of figures.

There was a loud knock at the door that had her jumping out of her skin. When she glanced over and found Auntie Mary there, she sighed. She hurried to the door and unlocked it.

“Don’t you have your keys?”

She shook her head. “Mike dropped me off. We’re going to go straight from work to Xan’s soccer match. You’re coming tonight, right? Xan’s been chattering on about you since you told her you would last week.”

She nodded. Xan was Mary’s oldest granddaughter and she was a soccer freak. Sunshine locked the door and looked out. Richard was gone.

“What’s wrong?”

“Richard was across the street again.”

“What? Did you call the police?” Mary demanded.

“No. He wasn’t within the margin of error.”

She sighed. “Maybe Mike can beat him up.”

Sunshine laughed. “No, because Richard would press charges.”

“He would, the jerk.”

“One step over those fifty yards and I will call the cops. I was thinking about it, but since he’s gone, no worries.”

“But I do. Worry that is. He is not normal.”

He wasn’t, and she knew it. At first, Richard had seemed like a perfect client. Always on time—early sometimes. He paid in cash and never cancelled. Then, he had started to show up at the store. She dropped him as a client. He found out where she lived and started dropping by. Thankfully, she lived in a busy neighborhood; with much of the neighborhood staying unchanged in the last five years or so. When he keyed her car and took a knife to her tires, there had been more than one witness.

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