Secret Stalker by Lena Diaz

Author:Lena Diaz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-07-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Bex towel-dried the breakfast dishes and packed them into a box. That was the last of them. From here on out, however many days she had left in Destiny, she’d use paper plates and disposable utensils. Tomorrow was trash day. She’d empty the refrigerator tonight and set the bags at the curb.

She’d already had her RAV4 taken to Eddie’s to get the windshield fixed. Ralph, the owner, was going to sell her mom’s Taurus for her. Movers were scheduled to arrive later in the week to take the boxes she’d designated to go to her condo in Knoxville. Then, as soon as her lawyer gave the okay, an auction company would hold an estate sale for everything else, including the house. In just a few short weeks, it would be as if her mother had never even existed.

A sob escaped before Bex even registered the tears flowing down her cheeks. Her knees buckled and she sagged to the floor.

“Oh, Mama. Mama, Mama, Mama. I miss you so much.”

The grief hit her like a tidal wave, pushing her under, drowning her in darkness and sorrow. She’d cried when she’d first gotten the call from the hospital, of course. But that was nothing compared to the paralyzing pain that racked her now. She curled into a ball and cried until it seemed like there was no moisture left in her body to form any tears, until her throat ached from the strength of her sobs. And then she fell into an exhausted slumber right there on the kitchen floor.

When she woke up, only a short time had passed. But it felt like a lifetime. Her lifetime, her mother’s, her family’s. Nothing would ever be the same again. She’d never hear her mother’s voice on the phone. Never see her smiling face when the limo pulled up to Bex’s condo for one of her mom’s trips to Knoxville. Never swap much-loved books in the mail with favorite passages highlighted in pink. Bex had thought she’d dealt with her grief before coming back to Destiny. But apparently she’d had to see the house all packed up to really push her over the edge and make her face her tremendous loss.

Feeling bruised from the emotional hit she’d just taken, she pushed herself up to sitting and rubbed her bleary eyes. This little house had been her home for eighteen years. She’d been happy here, the doted upon only child of two incredibly loving parents. Now both of them were gone. And Bex wasn’t sure how she could go on without them.

She was tempted to curl back into a ball. But she could almost see her mother scowling at her and telling her to “suck it up, Buttercup.” Her mom never suffered whining or pity parties. Bex wasn’t going to insult her memory now by ignoring all the life lessons her mama had taught her.

After replenishing her parched body with a bottle of water, Bex went outside to check the mail that she’d forgotten to check yesterday.

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