Secret Alibi by Harris Lori L

Author:Harris, Lori L. [Harris, Lori L.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-01-19T00:18:05+00:00

LEXIE STOOD IN THE hallway, her back pressed to the wall as Alec’s and Jack’s words rolled through her head. Prison. She was heading for prison unless they managed to find Dan’s killer. It wouldn’t be a matter of proving herself innocent. There was no way she was going to be able to refute the evidence…

Hearing a noise, she looked up and saw Jack standing five feet from her. He’d stepped into the hallway and out of the light coming from the kitchen, so she couldn’t see his face.

She straightened immediately.

“I’m sorry you overheard that.”

“Don’t be,” she said as she closed the distance between them. “I can manage the truth easier than I can deal with wondering what you’re hiding from me because you don’t think I can handle it.”

His mouth tightened. “I’ll remember that in the future.”

Lexie stepped into her kitchen, already nervous about spending time in the same room with Jack’s brother. She wasn’t surprised by his offer to help. His reasons for doing so, though, didn’t have anything to do with her, she knew.

“Whatever you’re making smells delicious.”

“Pizza,” Jack said as he tried to hand a glass of wine to her.

She wanted it. There was no denying that. But she shook her head. “I can’t. I took a pain pill a few minutes ago.” She hadn’t, but it was the only reason she could think of for turning down the wine.

As she was getting a bottle of water out of the refrigerator, the phone rang and Lexie automatically picked it up.

“You murdering bitch!” an unfamiliar female voice said.

Jack tugged the handset out of Lexie’s hand, listened briefly before saying, “You have a good evening, too, ma’am.”

Lexie tried to open the bottled water, but her hands were shaking too badly. She knew both men were watching her, waiting to see if she would fall apart.

She would have given anything just to be alone for a few minutes.

At her continued struggles, Alec held out a hand for the water. Passing it to him, she turned to Jack. He obviously knew what was going through her head.

“Your ex-husband’s patient, most likely,” Jack said. “It will probably continue for a few days. People typically give up after that.”

While Alec and Jack ate pizza chased with a good Chianti, Lexie accompanied hers with the water. The conversation was anything but what was normally carried on during a meal. Both men asked her endless questions about her marriage, about Dan’s habits, and hers, too.

It was nearly an hour later when, taking his plate with him, Alec got up from the table. “It’s getting late and Lexie especially needs a good night’s sleep.”

She was surprised by those words, as she was when he held out his hand to her. Given the way he’d questioned her, it seemed an odd parting gesture.

As the men moved toward the front door, Alec having said goodbye, Lexie cleared the remaining plates. There was no automatic dishwasher, so she filled one side of the double sink with water and added soap and the dishes, stacking them neatly using her one good hand.

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