No One Left to Tell by Karen Rose

Author:Karen Rose [Rose, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780451236166
Publisher: Signet
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Wednesday, April 6, 7.05 P.M.

The front door slammed and Adele flinched. Darren was home. She didn’t call out to him. Didn’t say a word. Just waited at the kitchen table, staring at the glass of wine that she’d poured two hours ago and hadn’t touched.

Darren set his briefcase on the table. Tugged at his tie, then sat down. She’d hoped he’d be back to normal when he came home, but he was still aloof. And angry.

‘The vet called,’ she said quietly. ‘Rusty’s improving. I called your cell but you didn’t pick up.’

‘I know.’

‘That Rusty’s doing better?’

‘That too,’ he said flatly.

She swallowed hard, looked down at the table. ‘So you ignored my calls.’

‘I called the vet on my own. I also made a few other calls today.’

He said nothing more and finally she looked up again. ‘To who?’

His expression was cold. Hardened. ‘To the client you had an afternoon meeting with yesterday. Except she told me it was lunch and you were gone by one. You didn’t pick up Allie until five. Where were you all afternoon?’

Stunned, her mouth dropped open. ‘You were checking up on me? Why?’

Darren’s mouth twisted bitterly. ‘Not a good answer, Adele.’

‘I . . .’ Was at my psychiatrist because I think I’m losing my mind. But she couldn’t bring the words out of her mouth. ‘I went shopping.’ Which she had, after leaving Theopolis’s office. She’d wandered the mall aimlessly, seeing nothing.

‘Which store?’ Darren asked acidly.

‘I . . . I don’t remember.’ And that was the honest truth.

‘Hm. So, what’s his name, Adele?’

Again her mouth dropped open, this time in anger of her own. ‘You think that I’m having an affair?’

‘Just be honest with me.’

‘I am. I am not having an affair. That you could even think that . . .’

‘You usually do wounded so much better than this,’ he said. ‘It’s like this. You say someone’s been following you, trying to harm you. On a different day I might have made you an appointment with a psychiatrist. But my dog is in the clinic, because he’s been poisoned. You didn’t want the chocolates. You knew something was wrong with them.’

‘No, I thought so. But I thought a lot of things.’ Like you loved me.

‘Whatever. I asked you why someone would try to harm you, but you said you didn’t know. Adele, we are a normal couple from Baltimore. We are not celebrities. We have no enemies. At least I thought so until today. I wondered why someone would target you. You specifically.’

‘It could be random.’

He laughed, the sound harsh and painful. ‘Stalkers don’t just open the phone book and pick a name. That happens in movies, baby. Not real life. Not our life.’

He’d always called her ‘baby’ with tenderness. Now, it sliced. ‘So you assumed.’

‘I did. I do. Seems that if someone’s stalking you, you caught their eye somehow. I asked you if there was someone else.’

‘I said no.’

‘So convincingly, too. Were you laughing at me, Adele?’

She stared at this man she didn’t know. ‘No.

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