Together for the Holidays by Margaret Daley

Author:Margaret Daley [Daley, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, General, Religious
ISBN: 9781426843426
Google: J7-SZuAe_78C
Amazon: B002SVQDHS
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2009-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

The Wednesday before Thanksgiving, David climbed from his Jeep, several squad cars parked in the lot next to The Ultimate Pizzeria. Quickly striding toward the entrance, he tamped down his worry and concern, trying to wear his professional facade while in reality all he wanted to do was burst through the doors and scoop Lisa into his arms to make sure she wasn’t harmed in any way. When the robbery had been reported, there hadn’t been a mention of anyone being hurt. But what if Lisa was? He could have made it to the restaurant before an ambulance, having broken a few speeding laws on his way to the crime.

Inside the pizzeria he surveyed the scene before him. The uniforms had the witnesses cordoned off in one room to the left. One police officer stood at the entrance and nodded toward him when he entered the place.

On his way to the two cops standing by the cash register, David veered toward the room where about a dozen witnesses were and peered in. Where was Lisa? Drawing in a fortifying breath, he continued his trek toward the officers at the counter. Maybe she wasn’t at work when the robbery went down.

Behind David his partner came into the restaurant and hurried to catch up with him.

“What fire was lit under your tail?” he asked David. “The robbery had already gone down. You’d think you were trying to race here to stop it.”

David glanced at the older man. “I know someone who works here.”

“Is she here?”

“She?”

“Yes, from the look on your face it has to be a woman who has you all concerned.”

“Don’t know if she is, I just got here.”

His partner took out his pad and pen. “I’ll take care of this. You start interviewing the witnesses.”

At the counter David asked the officer nearest him, “Where’s the manager on duty?”

The cop jerked his thumb toward the back. “She’s retrieving the surveillance footage for us. Tim is back there with her. All the cameras feed into a computer in her office.”

David strode through the kitchen. She was okay. His breathing returned to normal until he stood in the doorway and saw Lisa giving the evidence to the police officer, her hands shaking so badly she nearly dropped a CD. An ashen cast to her skin heightened her huge blue eyes and the look of fear in them.

“That covers the last hour.”

Her quavering voice penetrated the hard shell he’d cocooned his emotions concerning Lisa in.

“Thank you, ma’am,” Tim said, his attention resting on David at the same time Lisa’s swept to him.

“I’ll take it from here, officer. Give that tape to my partner out in the main room.”

When the man left, Lisa crumbled into her chair at her desk, her arms hanging listlessly. In her lap she laced her fingers together to tightly the knuckles whitened. The urge to hold her inundated him. He stayed in the entrance into the office, fighting the need, remembering all that had happened in the past ten days. An eternity to him.

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