SECRET IDENTITY by Linda Mooney

Author:Linda Mooney
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Erotic/Fantasy
Publisher: Whiskey Creek Press LLC
Published: 2012-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

First Base

Her parents’ bedroom was the way she remembered it. Her father had never removed her mother’s things after her death. Dresses still hung in the closet. The hairbrush sat on the white doily on the dressing table. Brenda bet herself her mother’s undies and all would still be in the bureau drawers.

Do I begin clearing everything away? Or do I go back to the labs and hope to find out something about the explosion?

Her stomach clenched, reminding her that she hadn’t had breakfast. Time to raid the refrigerator and larder to see if there was anything she could whip up. She was passing through the living room when someone knocked at the front door. She didn’t need three guesses to know who it was after seeing the familiar figure. She was already grinning when she opened the door, only to be met with a cardboard box with a smiley face drawn on it.

“What are you doing?” She laughed.

“Good morning! My name is Box. I’m here to help you pack up the things that make you unhappy.”

The voice was squeaky but unmistakable as the box jiggled from left to right.

Still laughing, Brenda peered out onto the porch where she saw at least a dozen or more empty boxes. “Lorne! What are you doing here?”

He dropped the box to grin at her. “Delivering coffee.” Today he wore a black t-shirt with a Fender Stratocaster guitar emblazoned on the front. Although the shirt was well-worn, the jeans looked brand new, right down to the neat creases in the legs. Red high-top sneakers and a lightweight navy blue windbreaker completed his typical scruffy but incredibly handsome look. To her surprise, he reached down where he had set a travel mug, and handed it to her. “One artificial sweetener and just enough milk to turn it from black to a gross-out diarrhea brown, just the way you like it, madam.”

Brenda stepped back to let him enter, bringing the boxes with him and dumping them in the living room as she sipped her coffee. “Mmm. Thanks. I don’t suppose you brought breakfast with you, too.”

Lorne reached inside the pocket of his windbreaker to pull out a foil-wrapped package. “Scrambled egg on toast was the best I could do. It’s Lee’s turn to get groceries, and you know much he loves that task,” he remarked with exaggerated irony.

Brenda peeled back the foil and pinched a bit of the sandwich, stuffing it in her mouth. He’d even buttered the bread. “Oh, God, Lorne, you’re going to make some woman a great husband some day.” She giggled. “Now, the truth. What are you doing here? Why aren’t you at work?”

“Still on bereavement leave,” he said.

She could understand that. Nearly everyone in town knew how close the two families had been. “And speaking of, I didn’t like the idea of you having to remove all of Mr. Mac’s things all by yourself. That’s what family is for.”

Before she could protest, he snatched up two boxes and strode down the hallway toward the master bedroom.

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