The Stranger at the Door by Lorhainne Eckhart

Author:Lorhainne Eckhart [Eckhart, Lorhainne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781989698686
Publisher: Lorhainne Eckhart

Chapter Ten

Sitting in the passenger seat of Mark’s Jeep, riding in silence, was anything but uncomfortable. Being with him was easy in so many ways. Billy Jo took in the winding long driveway after the electronic gates that had opened automatically, ending in a huge two-story house with lots of glass and brick.

“No one’s sneaking up on anyone here,” Mark said as he pulled up and parked in front of the house by a three-car garage. The driveway was stone pavers, and the front door was all glass. Mark turned off the Jeep and stepped out, and she followed him, slipping her purse over her shoulder and sliding her sunglasses off as she took in the carving at the front door, a bear and an eagle. Everything about this place screamed money, wealth.

“Nice place,” she said as Mark pressed the doorbell. She heard the chime inside, then footsteps, and she had to fight the urge to reach over to him. “Before we go in, please, for me, tread carefully,” she said.

She’d never pleaded with him, and she didn’t know what to make of the way he was looking at her as he lifted his sunglasses and settled them in his red hair. When the door opened, there was Sunday Byrd, wearing cut-offs and a lowcut tank, with a baby on her hip.

“What are you doing here?” she said.

Billy Jo couldn’t pull her gaze from the baby, seeing the dark hair, the soother it was sucking on, wearing just a white T-shirt and a disposable diaper.

“I need to have a word with you,” Mark said. “Is Ash here?”

Billy Jo wasn’t sure if she would answer, as she just stood there for a moment. She could see Sunday was doing her best to pull it together, considering she couldn’t hide how thrown she was.

She shook her head. “No, he’s out, but he could be back anytime. You shouldn’t be here.”

Mark did something she didn’t expect. He put his hand on the door and pushed it, making Sunday step back, and he stepped inside. “We have enough time to talk. You know who was waiting in my office this morning? Your husband, and he seemed to know all about your dropping by last night. Did you tell him?”

Billy Jo was now inside, as well, her hand on the door. Sunday was holding her baby, standing in the wide open entry, with its high ceiling, an open-concept living room behind her. When Billy Jo closed the door, she spotted a kitchen off to the left, huge and impressive, with so much light from the floor-to-ceiling windows. She figured a house of this magnitude had to run at least in the range of five to six million, easy.

“He asked me where I was, and I knew when he asked that he already knew, so yes, I told him I was at your house and drove out to see you,” she said, then poked her tongue into her cheek, not pulling her gaze from Mark. When

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