Money Can't Buy Love by Connie Briscoe

Author:Connie Briscoe [Briscoe, Connie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 0446534838
Publisher: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Published: 2011-06-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

She walked out of the Maryland Lottery headquarters in Baltimore at ten on Monday morning and decided to celebrate by buying a new car. Her dream car, a BMW. She knew exactly where the dealership was near Baltimore. It was as if she had been planning this day all her life.

“BMW 750Li, here I come!” she announced as she exited the building and headed for her beat-up Honda. Thing was so old she was almost embarrassed to drive it onto the BMW lot, but she quickly got past her shame when she saw all the shiny new luxury automobiles. They seemed to be waiting for her, and she spent more than two hours roaming around the showroom on Baltimore National Pike, looking at color combinations, features, and options. By the time she settled into her new cashmere silver BMW, it was past noon.

Lunchtime traffic would be a bear, but she decided to drive to Gerald’s office forty minutes away in Silver Spring anyway and offer to buy him lunch. Lately he had been much more flexible about leaving work to have lunch or dinner with her. It was amazing how much more available people had been since she won the lottery. She dialed Gerald’s cell number while sitting in the lot.

“Hello?” came a woman’s voice.

Lenora frowned into her phone. Had she dialed wrong? “Hi, who am I talking to?”

“Robin. Gerald stepped out of his office. Oh, wait. Here’s Gerald now.”

Lenora heard a light rustle and Gerald came on the line. “Hello?” he said.

“Hi, it’s me,” Lenora said.

“Hey, baby,” he said warmly.

“Who was that?”

“Oh, that’s Robin.”

“I know her name is Robin. She just told me. What’s she doing answering your cell phone?”

“She’s a coworker. We were going over some papers and I stepped out. My cell was on my desk. She was nice enough to pick it up.”

“Seems rather presumptuous of her. Cell phones are pretty personal. She knows you that well?”

“She was only trying to be helpful.”

“Mm-hmm.”

“Come on, Lenora,” he said. “Don’t be that way. She’s just a coworker.”

Lenora wasn’t sure what to think. People didn’t normally go around answering other people’s cell phones unless they were close. The whole thing seemed weird, but it could be entirely innocent, nothing more than a coworker helping out as Gerald said. Gerald had never given her any real reason not to trust him since the affair. And yet he did have an affair, which was what made incidents like this, when they popped up once in a while, so nerve-racking.

But Lenora decided to give him the benefit of the doubt. Besides, she wanted to give him the good news. “Guess where I am,” she said.

“I have no idea. I hear traffic. In your car?”

“Right. But not that raggedy old Honda. That thing is ancient history. I’m about to leave the car dealership and drive down Baltimore National Pike in my brand-new BMW.”

“What?”

She giggled like a schoolgirl. “Yes. You heard right.”

“So does this mean you finally went to the lottery board?”

“Yep.”

“Damn,” he said.

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