Sea of Suspicion by Toni Anderson

Author:Toni Anderson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2010-09-16T04:00:00+00:00

Susie woke to the relentless sound of the telephone ringing. She sat up, rubbed the grit from her eyes, holding the sheet across her breasts as she realized she was naked. Then she remembered exactly what was missing from this morning’s equation.

She grabbed the phone. Maybe it was Nick? “Hello?”

“Susie, darling.” Her mother’s voice was shrill along thousands of miles of fiber optics. “I’ve been trying to get hold of you for days. Why didn’t you return my calls? I know you’re upset with me, but I’ve been worried.”

Susie huffed out a breath and pulled a pillow behind her so she could rest against the headboard. It wasn’t Nick calling to whisper good-morning and, yes, that had been the best sex ever.

“Sorry, Mom, I’ve been busy.”

“Oh, please!” the senator scoffed. “You think I don’t recognize that lame excuse? I use it every day.”

Payback’s a bitch.

Susie rubbed her forehead and squeezed her eyes shut. She was being uncharitable and despite everything that had happened in the past, she loved her mother.

“Really, Mom, I have been busy, and then there was a murder just outside the lab and last night my neighbor was taken ill.”

“Murder?” Darcy’s voice dropped to serious. “I thought Scotland was safe.”

“It is.” Susie could kick herself. Whatever their disagreements, no matter her age, her mother still took the overprotective view of parenting. “Some poor girl was killed on the beach in front of the marine lab. It was the first murder in this town for ten years, can you imagine if Washington were this safe?”

“I’m sending a bodyguard,” said Darcy.

“Don’t be ridiculous.” There was no way Susie would tolerate being shadowed 24/7. “I’m not having some stranger making my life more complicated than it already is, the press is bad enough.”

“This is something we need to discuss, Susie—”

“No. It isn’t.” No way her mother was getting her own way on this. Between Darcy and Nick she was being suffocated with good intent and look where that had gotten her. And suddenly her mother’s meaning registered. “Even if you become president of the free world, I am not having a bodyguard.” Dismay filled her as the implications of her mother’s political ambition hit home like rubber bullets.

“You might not get a choice,” Darcy told her. “The United States takes the security of its leaders very seriously.”

What about Susie’s son? Darcy’s secret grandchild? Would he get a bodyguard? Susie dropped the sheet and jumped out of bed, needing to be dressed for this conversation. There was a knock on the front door as Susie dipped into her lingerie drawer.

She stilled, frowning. “Mom, I have to go, I’ll call you later.”

“You haven’t got a man there have you?” The inflection edged toward sophisticated amusement that made Susie’s teeth grind.

Ignoring her mother, she peeked out of her bedroom window and saw a short, chubby, mustached guy in a flat-cap, wielding a toolbox the size of her car. She wiggled into her underwear and snagged a pair of Levi’s out of another drawer.

“Mom,

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