Magnolia Moon by Joann Ross

Author:Joann Ross [Ross, JoAnn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, General
ISBN: 9780743464192
Google: SFkLhVI3AL8C
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2003-02-28T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

They backed out of the driveway just as a late-model Honda pulled in. "That was a nice thing to do," Nate said.

"I didn't want to waste time. After all, we got what we needed. There was no point in questioning his wife."

"And you believed him? About not sleeping with her?"

"I got the impression he was being truthful. Didn't you?"

"Sure. But I'm the civilian here."

She glanced back, watching as Boyce took the groceries out of the car. He literally towered over his wife, who appeared to be about four-eleven and probably wouldn't weigh a hundred pounds soaking wet. "You could have told me Marybeth is so small."

"Seems to me I mentioned my doubts about her dragging Linda out to the car, and you mentioning adrenaline. Since I knew you'd want to check out all the loose ends, it made more sense to let you talk to Jarrett and make your own decision about the involvement of either one."

"Of course, there's always the chance that he was lying to me about their relationship," Regan mused. "Which could give him a motive for killing Dale himself. It certainly wouldn't be the first time the person who reported finding a body turned out to be the one responsible. It's obvious he loves his wife, or they wouldn't have survived the loss of a child and her depression and still be together thirty years later. If he'd wanted to protect his marriage, he'd have a motive for wanting to stop her from telling Marybeth the truth about an affair."

"Thus risking the chance of sending her back into a depression, which in turn would have her returning to the hospital," Nate said. "Do you believe that's a possibility?"

"Anything's possible. But no, I don't believe that's what happened."

"Then I guess we keep looking."

We. Strange, how having Nate Callahan as a partner in this investigation didn't seem quite as impossible as it did yesterday.

"Do me a favor?" she asked.

"Sure." She didn't know anyone who'd agree without first finding out what she was asking. "What do you need?"

"Pull over. I need to get out of this car."

He shot a concerned look. "You feelin' sick, chère?"

"No." She took a deep breath. "Frustrated. And when I'm frustrated, I need to walk."

"Makes sense to me."

He pulled the SUV over to the side of the road. Regan jumped out before he could open her door and headed off down the road with no goal but to try to clear her head and sort things through.

The energy was radiating from her like sparks from a fire as she marched along the bank of the bayou. Leaving her to her thoughts, Nate kept quiet and just fit his stride to hers.

"I just keep going over and over it," she ground out after they'd gone about two hundred yards. "And I still can't figure out why she never told me the truth."

"Maybe to protect your feelings?"

"Lies always come out."

Sister Augustine had always said the same thing. The nun had warned her often unruly second graders,

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