String of Tears (Psychic Visions Book 22) by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer [Mayer, Dale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Suspense
ISBN: 9781773367163
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2023-01-09T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Almost two hours later Hurricane and Jewel made their way into a small restaurant. He looked around, smiled, and nodded. “This looks like quite the place.”

“It’s an artist haunt,” she murmured. “A decent place to come, and, while they don’t really know me, they do.”

“Good choice. Not so close to your loft as to be an obvious choice for you, yet not so new and different as to stand out.”

“I don’t think anybody ever stands out in these places, but I could be wrong.”

They took a seat, and a waitress came over, handed them menus, gave them a perfunctory smile, and then quickly left.

“She didn’t seem to know you.”

“Maybe that’s a good thing.”

Sitting in the back, he looked around, as she watched him. “Do you see anything?” she asked him.

Startled, he turned to her and shrugged. “No, not really. Was it that obvious?”

“You’re doing the same thing I’m doing. We’re looking to see who might have recognized me and who might be surprised that I’m, you know, alive and well.”

“The thing is, if they know you’re alive and well, would they come and approach you or would they disappear and maybe even pull up stakes and leave town because of what they did?”

She shrugged. “I don’t know.”

“Would you have taken a stranger home?” he asked after a moment.

She stared at him. “You mean, like, literally pick up a stranger and take him home to my bed? Ah, no, that’s not my style.”

“I didn’t think so, but …”

“No, absolutely no way.” He hesitated. She looked at him and asked, “Now what?”

“Just your … relationship status.”

“As in, do I have one? The answer is no.”

“Okay, and why not?”

“Because the last one was bad, and I didn’t want to get into another similar scenario, particularly when I was working so hard on my show.”

“You talk about the show as if it was pretty well a done deal.”

She hesitated and shrugged. “I don’t think it was a done deal at the time, but I think it was definitely … not in the bag, but something I was expecting.” Knowing he wanted her to say more, she continued. “And, no, I don’t think my ex would have had anything to do with this. He was one of those irrationally jealous types, and, when I started expressing interest in putting together pieces for a show, first he just laughed and scoffed at me. But, when I wasn’t deterred, he got really upset and immediately decided I must be sleeping with all the gallery owners in town, trying to get into a show. He went so far as to suggest that I was offering sexual favors to convince them to give me a shot, since my jewelry sucks so much and all.”

At that, Hurricane’s eyebrows went up. “So, insecure, jealous, and not nearly as talented.”

She laughed. “Something like that. Art brought us together. I don’t know what kept us together though,” she murmured.

“Circumstance is what often happens. So often people get into something like that, and it just seems like too much trouble to rock the boat and to get themselves out.

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