The Return of Jonah Gray by Heather Cochran

Author:Heather Cochran
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises
Published: 2007-03-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

LOOKING THROUGH THE FRONT WINDOW, I COULD SEE them sitting at the bar. It was easy to make out Uncle Ed’s broad back and his familiar tweed sport coat. But I stared at the young man beside him. I knew it had to be Marcus, though I couldn’t see his face and wasn’t sure I would have recognized him anyway. I could see that he looked leggy and narrower than Ed, more wiry. He wore a leather jacket and jeans. He had dark hair. But that was all I could make out.

I’m related to him, I thought, staring at his back. What would that turn out to mean?

I took a deep breath, walked to the restaurant’s main door and stepped inside.

Like Jeff Hill, I’d driven by Hunter’s plenty of times but never eaten there. It was a woodsy place with a lot of game on the menu. It was supposed to be good, but I’d never felt any impulse to go inside, perhaps on account of a childhood attachment to Bambi. Hunter’s was split in half with the dining room to the left as you entered, and the bar, where Ed and Marcus waited, to the right.

“Welcome to Hunter’s! May I help you?” the hostess chirped as soon as I entered.

“I’m meeting people. They’re waiting for me in the bar.”

She pointed to my right. I suppose there was no way she could have known that I already knew the way. That was the conundrum of her job. Was she helping people, or was she simply cluttering their lives with redundant information and greetings immediately forgotten? Then again, I wondered, how was my work any different? One could argue that the hostess’s effect was, at least, minimal and benign.

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