One True Heart by Jodi Thomas

Author:Jodi Thomas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-03-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27

Johnny Wheeler had sworn he wouldn’t go to town for a while, but by dark he realized there was no food in the house. The lettuce and grapes he’d bought ten days ago had turned brown and the bread was green. Even hermits had to have food. It occurred to him that maybe he should grow something next season that he could eat. After all, he was a farmer. How hard could it be to plant a garden?

He might even use his barn for something other than a place to leave his tractor, and of course, his wife’s boyfriend’s drugs. Max must have thought Johnny a complete idiot for not noticing the drugs in the barn or Max in his bed with Scarlet.

When Johnny climbed in his pickup, he couldn’t help wondering where Scarlet’s car had disappeared to. When Max had been arrested with the drugs, surely Scarlet had been brought in to the sheriff’s office.

At first he’d thought maybe the sheriff just drove off with Max and left her behind. If so, Scarlet would have had to come inside the house for the purse she’d left behind over a week ago.

He grinned and walked over to the dryer. Opening the door, he noticed her purse was exactly where he’d put it. She’d never think to look in the dryer. He wasn’t even sure she knew the thing had a door.

If she took her car after Max’s arrest, someone had to drive out and help her.

“Wendell,” he said to himself, knowing his brother always came running whenever she needed help.

She wouldn’t have to sleep with Wendell to get whatever she wanted; she could just pat him on the head. Before Wendell worked in mall patrol, he’d owned a key shop. He’d never considered the possibility that only a dozen people might need keys made every month. After three months of not making enough to pay the electricity on the place, he moved his tools to his garage and went looking for another job.

As Johnny drove into town, he tried to think of where Scarlet might be. Last year she’d sold her condo in Austin and said she was making some investments. She didn’t want to talk about it and Johnny had thought, since it was her money, she could do whatever she wanted with it.

He’d never seen a dime, or a statement, or anything that hinted at what she’d done with the windfall.

Maybe she’d bought a place in Harmony? Maybe tonight she’d invited Wendell over to dinner at her secret place so she could talk him into confessing to a drug possession charge.

No, he thought, if she’d planned something so devious, she’d have to cook and Scarlet never did that. Plus, she wouldn’t go out because she might be seen with Wendell. Even having a husband in jail couldn’t damage her reputation as bad as stepping out with Wendell.

Johnny pulled into a grocery store. It was late. If he got fast food first, the store might be closed by the time he circled back.

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