Ms. Demeanor by Danica Winters

Author:Danica Winters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

The front door slammed. Laura wasn’t sure what she should do—stay in the kitchen and ignore whatever was going on between Rainier and his father, or go and make sure that the two men were all right. She waited for a moment, hoping to hear something, but the only sound was the sizzling of the oil in the pan as she waited to put in another egg.

Certainly things between the two of them couldn’t have gone so badly that one had stormed out. Besides, Rainier wouldn’t have left her standing alone in his parents’ kitchen without so much as letting her know where he was going, or coming to get her before he left. Though he had his issues, he wasn’t thoughtless.

Yet if it was his father who had gone, it didn’t explain why Rainier wasn’t coming to tell her what had happened—not that she needed to know. No, whatever had been said between father and son could stay between them. She was an interloper, an outsider in the tightly woven Fitzgerald clan.

She turned off the stove and removed the pan from the heat.

It was eerily quiet.

Unable to stand it any longer, she opened the kitchen door and looked into the living room. Standing beside the Christmas tree were Merle, Rainier and Wyatt. Wyatt was in his uniform and had his thumbs hooked into the armpits of his bulletproof vest as he stood talking.

He looked over at her and frowned. “Laura, what are you doing here?”

She should have stayed in the kitchen.

“Good morning, Wyatt.”

He dropped his hands as he glanced at his brother. “Why is she here?” he asked, his voice cracked with accusation.

“I...I was dropping him off. I was just about to leave,” she said, heading toward the front door in hopes that she could get out of there before Wyatt had another chance to interrogate her.

He didn’t have to know anything—in fact, he was the last person who needed to know what had gone on between her and Rainier. Though he and his brother had called a tentative truce, if he learned that they were sleeping together she was sure it would all come to a head once again.

“You don’t need to go,” Rainier said. “Wyatt, you don’t have any right to ask about my guest.”

“Your guest?” Wyatt gave a contemptuous chuckle. “Oh, I see.”

“You don’t see anything,” Rainier said, jumping to intercede. “Why don’t you just stop busting my chops and tell us all why you are here, Wyatt?”

“Whatever. To make things clear, Laura, I like you, but whatever you two want to get mixed up in...that’s your mistake to make. I just don’t want to get wrapped up in your mess.”

“Why are you here, Wyatt?” Rainier asked again.

He gave her one last look. “I came here to let you all know that we got our report back from the medical examiner. As we assumed, it was a male. Turns out he was fifty-two years of age, five foot nine, Caucasian, brunette. Cause of death was a gunshot to the head.

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