One Secret Too Many by Vanessa Grant

Author:Vanessa Grant [Grant, Vanessa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Large Type Books, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780263124835
Google: Ip_V0S8qH2MC
Amazon: B0045Y2EE2
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 1991-01-31T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

ALTHOUGH it was easy enough to laugh about Emily Derringer in Sam’s presence, Alex found herself avoiding the woman. There was no reason to believe that she knew about Alex’s pregnancy, but Alex knew that Emily would be the first to know when the word got around, and she dreaded the moment of confrontation.

Meanwhile, the secret was safe enough—temporarily. The MacAvoys certainly weren’t telling anyone. Alex didn’t even know if Maggie had told Michael, but assumed she had. It was hard to imagine Maggie keeping any secrets from the husband she openly adored.

Her mother was not about to spread her shame, and her father never talked about anyone’s affairs. But, naturally, on the day Alex moved her things out of the manse and into Sam’s recently acquired house, the whole town of Prince Rupert knew.

Sam and Neil helped her to move. It should have been a tense day. Her mother was sternly disapproving. Her father had disappeared for the day. Alex had hardly seen him since returning home from her stay with Maggie on the waterfront. It hurt, realising that he was avoiding her.

It was obvious that in her parents’ eyes she was quickly descending the road to hell, yet when she walked out of her old home it was as if a shadow was lifting from her life. Across the street, a neighbour was staring as Sam loaded her boxes into a borrowed truck. Alex saw the curiosity, but it seemed not to matter.

‘Why didn’t you bring your Corvette?’ she teased Sam. Neil laughed as he came up carrying a light box in one hand, balanced with the cast on his other arm.

Sam grinned and shook his head at them both. ‘You can ride in the Corvette, but the boxes can’t.’ They shared the front seat of the truck, Alex riding between Sam and Neil. ‘You’ve grown a bit,’ she told the boy.

‘Yeah,’ Neil said gruffly, almost the first word he had spoken to her. Later they sat in the confusion that was her new home and shared a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Neil seemed tense, until Alex said, ‘I don’t know why I brought that radio. It hasn’t worked in months.’

‘I’ll look at it,’ offered Neil. He used a kitchen knife to open the case as she and Sam sipped at cans of Coke.

‘You don’t have a television?’ Sam asked her.

‘No. I’ll write my own stories. I’ve got lots to do without television.’ Her eyes were on the bay window, planning how she would turn it into an office for herself. Neil was sitting there now, her radio in pieces on the seat beside him.

‘Don’t work too hard on the writing,’ Sam cautioned, his hand touching hers fleetingly. ‘You need time to relax, too. Look after yourself.’

‘Look who’s talking! Aren’t you the man who works long hours, who says I’ll hardly see you although we’re sharing the same roof?’ She followed his gaze to the window, and said quietly, ‘That’s the Neil I remember, happiest when he had something in pieces.

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