Shop and Let Die by McClymer Kelly

Author:McClymer, Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: maine, serial killer, family relationships, momlit, secret shopper, mystery shopper
Publisher: Kelly McClymer

The PTA fair planning meeting went longer than I’d predicted, and the house was quiet when I came in. To my surprise, the TV wasn’t on. Seth was sitting on the couch in the dark, bathed only in the light of his laptop monitor. There was an oddly still quality to his fixity, unlike when he was engrossed in a game of World of Warcraft.

“How was the meeting?” His question was perfunctory politeness and I was quite sure I could have said that Bianca, the PTA president, set me on fire and he wouldn’t have heard me, or remembered that Bianca was in Paris.

“What are you doing?”

At that, he looked up, a sheepish grin on his face that made me worry I wasn’t going to like his answer. Surely not pornography. Not Seth. He liked the occasional foray into Playboy, and he was the only one who ever looked at the Victoria’s Secret catalogs which clogged our mailbox periodically. But online porn? Not unless he’d been taken by pod people.

“I checked our email. We’re a hit.”

“Really?” I shouldn’t have been put out that he’d checked the site without me. After all, hadn’t I done the same?

I should have been glad that he was interested in my work at last. He had a glass of wine next to him. Before I could really get worried, I noticed the second glass of wine.

He patted the seat next to him. “Come see what these millionaire losers have to say. It’s pathetic. They’ve fallen for Serena’s siren song easier than Ulysses and his men.”

“Classic.” I’d already battled the dowagers of the PTA, I had no more strength left to protest that he’d usurped my job. “How long have you been on?”

“Not long.”

I could see the time-online counter, he’d been on since 9:00. Wow, what was so fascinating? I wondered guiltily if he’d been as curious about the rich women on the site as I’d been about the rich men? I hit the browser’s back button, and saw the profile of one Theona Perkin-Pepper. Not a great beauty, but she had a very nice job — wealth manager. “Wish you’d married someone like her?” I couldn’t help but add sourly, “I bet she hires only the best nannies for her children.”

“She doesn’t have any children,” Seth said. “She wanted to have her career in a solid place before she settled down to a husband and children.”

“Well, I guess she’s done that. Of course, let’s see her in a year after she’s got the husband and the first kid. Money can make many things better—but it doesn’t make morning sickness easier and it doesn’t make a newborn sleep through the night.”

“She knows it won’t be easy.”

“No one knows how not easy it will be until the baby throws up on your best suit the same day your boss needs a final report. Not to mention that your husband is out of town on a business trip.” That was the day I quit my “real” job. Without notice.

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