She'll Never Know by Hunter Morgan

Author:Hunter Morgan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ePublishing Works!
Published: 2017-05-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Jillian glanced at her watch as she dropped a bag of items that she had picked up for Millie into her trunk. It was noon; Ty had his lunch break from twelve-thirty to one. If she hurried, she could catch him as he was climbing off his lifeguard stand. The guards switched stands weekly, so he was blocks from the cottage this week. But if she took him lunch, she knew they could sit out of the sun under one of the umbrellas at the rental stand nearby and eat together.

It was Ty's parents' anniversary, and he, his cousin Kristen, and Ty's sister, who was flying in from Texas, would be taking them out to dinner, so Jillian wouldn't see him tonight. She didn't think she could wait until tomorrow to tell him what she had discovered while picking her medical records up at the hospital.

She pulled out of the strip mall parking lot and zipped down the street. Ty wasn't into fast food, but the diner was only two blocks away. It was two-for-one burger day. She'd eat half a burger, he'd eat one and a half, and they'd share a large boardwalk fries. Jillian was feeling so good about herself that she thought she just might even give the vinegar a try.

Inside the diner, Ralph took her order. He wanted to linger at the lunch counter, stare at her breasts and chat with her, but a kid in the back unknowingly rescued her when he announced that there was a delivery to be checked in. While Jillian waited for her burgers and fries, she sat at the lunch counter and sipped her Coke in a to-go cup.

When she glanced around, she noted several people she recognized, and that felt good. She no longer felt so alone in the world. The mayor, in a green and yellow palm tree shirt, was at the register picking up take-out. He nodded pleasantly. A middle-aged couple who had bought one of Jenkins' paintings the day before was there. They waved. A guy in his early thirties who had been hitting on her in line on the boardwalk for ice cream yesterday was there, too—with his toddler and a woman who appeared to be his wife. He did not wave.

There was also a table of hospital employees, including the woman who had taken Jillian's blood and one of the men she'd met at Ty's parents' party. They were laughing, having a good time. In the very back, Jillian spotted the guy from the head shop down the boardwalk from Millie's store; he was with the police chief's daughter again. They were checking out their bill, each adding crumpled dollars to a pile on the table.

"'Afternoon."

Jillian looked over to see one of Albany Beach's policemen sliding onto the stool beside her. He had been two seats down, waiting for take-out, too, apparently, with the cop on the end who was reading a paper.

"Hi." She half smiled. It was Ryan McCormick, the one who had once dated Ty's sister.

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