Secret is in the Bones by Heather Sunseri

Author:Heather Sunseri [Sunseri, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sun Publishing

TWENTY-THREE

FAITH

I woke early the next morning in Luke’s bed. It was still mostly dark, but a faint light was dawning through the large wall of windows across the room. I rolled over under the thick comforter, wearing nothing but an oversized t-shirt of Luke’s and a pair of panties. He slept motionless beside me.

I had gone to bed without him last night. He’d had to work after we ate, and he seemed heavily distracted after his conversation with Detective Fish. He didn’t wake me or touch me when he came to bed, and I wasn’t sure how I felt about that. On one hand, I was relieved since I wasn’t sure where we stood. On the other hand, we’d had sex twice since I returned to town.

Was it fair for me to want it to mean something?

As I laid there in the early morning darkness, I struggled to wrap my brain around how his case with the FBI was tied to what was going on here in Paynes Creek. Or how my friend Darren had gotten wrapped up in all this. Why would a prison gang go after Darren?

None of it made sense.

At the same time, I was overwhelmed with sadness. For Darren’s friends and family. For Penelope and Danny, and the rest of Steven’s family. And then there was Paula Shepherd. While she and I were never friends—not by a long shot—she had people in her life that loved her and would miss her. Why had someone targeted her?

Sensing that I was starting to lose control of my emotions—both grief and anger—I slipped out of bed, trying hard not to wake Luke. Instead of seducing me the night before, he had chosen to stay up and work, which probably meant the case was troubling him even more than he’d expressed to me. He needed sleep.

After pulling Luke’s oversized sweatpants on, I climbed down the spiral staircase along the back windows. A fog hovered along the dew-soaked grass in the neighboring field. I wondered what Cooper planned to do with his land. He’d been repairing and adding new fencing everywhere. Maybe he was planning to add horses or cattle? Did he have time for either? Maybe Lily wanted to farm.

As I was getting ready to turn toward the kitchen, I spotted a doe and two fawns. I smiled as I watched them eat grass in the pasture. I missed this—seeing deer or the occasional family of fox ambling across my land.

When the craving for coffee took over, I shuffled over to the kitchenette. As I added water and coffee grounds to Luke’s coffee maker, I thought about how Lil had been so kind to me the night before. It was nice to feel like I had friends in this town where I’d had few over the years. It made me feel—even if only for a minute—I might be able to sow additional long-term seeds in the town I’d called home my entire life, despite a past that haunted me.

Because let’s face it, thanks to hyperthymesia, my past would haunt me no matter where I sowed those seeds.

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