The Nora Abbott Mystery series Box Set by Shannon Baker

Author:Shannon Baker [Baker, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severn River Publishing
Published: 2019-07-18T22:00:00+00:00

23

Sylvia stood with her arms crossed assessing her dining room. The expensive original oil paintings and the thick hand-woven rug over the shining rosewood floor pleased her. The chandelier glittered, throwing sparkles into the dark cathedral windows. An ordinary person would think it adequate, maybe even like it. But it didn’t suit Sylvia in the least.

The Chihuly should hang directly over the wrought iron and glass dining table she’d commissioned from an artist in Jackson Hole last year. A hard knot of frustration hit her gut as Sylvia adjusted one of the dining chairs. Until she had her glass, the room would be incomplete.

Sylvia’s heels sank into the deep pile of the rug and the folds of her negligee swished softly against her legs as she paraded down the hall. She paused in front of a full-length mirror, the designer frame setting off her image. Daniel would appreciate the view. Too bad they’d had that spat after the police station yesterday. She’d expected him all day but he hadn’t shown up. Sooner or later he would return to her.

The doorbell rang. The grandfather clock showed it was after nine. It could be Daniel, or maybe not. Her heart thudded against her ribs.

She descended two stairs to the foyer and tiptoed to the door to peek out the side window.

Daniel stood under the porch light. He oozed sex in his black blazer and jeans. He held a bottle of Courvoisier.

Sylvia smiled in satisfaction. She adjusted the neckline on the slinky black negligee, patted her hair, then unlocked the door and swung it wide.

“Buenos noches.” So much like his father; but he replaced the confidence of the mature man with the raw sexuality of a younger man.

“Please come in.” She stepped back and her vision dropped to his shapely backside as he walked past her.

A splash of fur zipped by her, hurtling into the foyer. The damned calico cat slowed to a trot and wound around Daniel’s legs.

“Oh, that pest!” Sylvia lunged for it.

Daniel bent down and picked it up. He handed the bottle to Sylvia. He stroked the cat’s fur as he walked back to the door. “Mi gato bonito.” He murmured as if he actually liked the fur ball. He set it on the porch and gave it a gentle shove then stepped back inside.

His focus slid around the oversized vases with their exotic dried grasses that had cost Sylvia a fortune. He looked up the stairs. “Very nice.” Whether he meant the house or her didn’t much matter. He wasn’t here for words.

Clever Sylvia hadn’t wasted any time seducing Daniel three years earlier when she started at the Trust. The complicated twists of who used whom—between Daniel and his environmental sensibilities, Eduardo with his eyes on a most lucrative venture, and Sylvia with the expertise to pull it off—landed Sylvia at the Trust with a multi-million dollar budget funded almost entirely by the Cubrero fortune.

Daniel believed she researched climate change and he’d convinced his father to donate enormous funds.

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