The Mac Faraday Mysteries Box Set (It's Murder, My Son; Old Loves Die Hard; Shades of Murder; Blast from the Past) (A Mac Faraday Mystery) by Lauren Carr

Author:Lauren Carr [Carr, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Acorn Book Services
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“Maybe if I hadn’t met her, and seen for myself what a warm loving woman—” He gestured to the living room out front. “Ask Archie. Ask David O’Callaghan. Ask anyone in this town. It was impossible for anyone to not love her. For me to hold any bad feelings for her.” He smiled broadly. “Especially when I saw this house, the Inn, and all the money she left me.”

“Nobody will ever feel like that about me when I’m gone.” She was rubbing the binding of a hundred-year-old book on autopsy techniques.

“What’s going on, Roxanne?”

“It’s my fault,” she sobbed softly.

“What is?”

She raised her eyes to his. “I was the one that suggested to Christine that maybe there was some remote possibility that the two of you could get back together. It never occurred to me that you would check her into the Spencer Inn the same weekend that Stephen Maguire was staying there.”

“Why did you plant that idea in her head?”

Roxanne opened her mouth, but then, seeming to think better of what she was about to say, shut it again. There was fear in her eyes, something he had never seen there before.

“I was trying to get her to go into rehab,” Roxanne blubbered. “I’d told her that if she went into rehab, dried out, and made a real effort to get herself together, that may-be, ideally, that you might forgive her and maybe get back together again.”

Mac swallowed the anger he felt rising. “Did it ever occur to you that there’s no way in hell that reconciliation between us was ever going to happen? Why did you plant that thought in her head?”

Wiping her nose on her sleeve, Roxanne stood up tall in her defense. “As an incentive for her to go into rehab. Did you know that I had to file a petition to have Christine declared incompetent? That’s how bad it’d gotten. After Stephen left, she was too lost to even handle her own checkbook. I had to go through her books and pay her bills. That’s when I found out how he’d been ripping her off all along. Meanwhile, she was drinking away, running up bills with money she didn’t have, and wallowing in misery and anger and resentment. I thought that if I got her into rehab she could be saved.”

She admitted, “Yes, Mac, I used you as bait. It never occurred to me that she’d come over here and throw herself at you and that you’d take her to the Inn where she’d end up on a direct path with Stephen Maguire.”

He asked, “How did she get here to the lake house?”

Roxanne shrugged. “She drove her car.”

“The kids told me that she’d stopped driving months ago. She was afraid of getting a DUI.”

“I guess miracles do happen,” she said. “Now you see why I feel so horrible. I planted that seed in her mind two days before she suddenly took off here to the lake house and came after you. If I’d never done

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