The Complete Maggie Newberry Provençal Mysteries 1-4 by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

Author:Susan Kiernan-Lewis
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: San Marco Press
Published: 2012-06-10T04:00:00+00:00

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“What did she say?”

“What do you think? She congratulated us.”

“Did you look happy?”

Grace shifted onto her elbow in the bed and rearranged her silk pajama top so that it wouldn’t gape.

“I did my best,” she replied.

Windsor looked at her from where he sat at the foot of the bed. “I can’t believe this,” he said, staring at her, anger and disgust tracing the outlines of his face.

“So you’ve said.” Grace turned away from him and set the alarm clock on her bedside table for five-thirty. Lately, there had been some difficulty in getting Taylor off to school. Grace would need the extra time to cajole her daughter from bed to clothes through breakfast and out the door. She set the clock back down and looked over her shoulder at her husband. “Are you going to have trouble putting on a happy face during Christmas?” she asked.

Windsor gave her a cutting look and stood up. He walked to the bedroom door, opened it and listened for a moment before closing it firmly. He did not return to the bed.

“This isn’t working out, is it, darling?” Grace said with a sigh as she leaned back into her overstuffed pillows and stared at the ceiling. She had made a point to have the workmen attach an attractive molding to the ceiling in their bedroom. It had cost the earth but she hadn’t been sorry.

“You’re a piece of work, Grace, you know that?” Windsor remained standing by the door, his back to her, his shoulders rigid under his soft flannel pajama top. “And at Christmas, of all times. I could murder you.”

“Sorry about Christmas,” she said.

“Just shut up, will you? For once I don’t want to hear your last-word, your perfect bon mot, your precise pronouncements.” He approached her in bed, his hands bunched into fists by his sides. “I just want you to shut the fuck up.”

Grace held her tongue.

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