Welcome Back to Pie Town by Lynne Hinton

Author:Lynne Hinton [Hinton, Lynne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins US
Published: 2012-07-15T20:38:37+00:00

TWENTY-SIX

Trina had had enough. The FBI agents had been sitting in their car outside the garage for two days, they had parked across from her house the entire previous night, and they had even followed her as she drove to Frieda’s house to pick up Alexandria and to Socorro to get groceries. After forty-eight hours of surveillance, she had had enough. She knew there was no reason for her to be watched this way. She knew they had no cause to intimidate her with their vigilance, and she was going to put a stop to it.

After she checked and locked all the outside doors at five o’clock, she stomped out of the office, made a beeline to the car parked in the vacant lot across the street from the garage, and walked right up to the driver’s side of the car. Her back was still tender, and she moved more slowly than she had before the accident, but she could still get to where she wanted to go without too much difficulty.

The man inside rolled down the window.

“Is there something you want?” she asked.

The driver smiled. The encounter seemed to amuse him. “I beg your pardon,” he said.

There was a woman on the passenger side, and Trina stuck her head in the window to get a good look at both of them. She noticed that they were young, maybe thirty, and that they both were wearing dark blue suits, white shirts, and a short hairstyle. The woman appeared more masculine than the man who was driving.

“Is there some reason you’re watching me?” Trina asked, pulling her head out of the window now that she had seen both of the agents. “You follow me to work. You follow me home. You follow me to my daughter’s caregiver’s house. I’m beginning to think you might have a crush on me.”

The driver laughed. “Which one of us?” he asked.

“Well, now that I’ve seen you both up close, I’d have to say I’m not sure about that.”

The man punched the woman next to him and laughed. He turned to Trina. “I’d say it was her.”

The passenger punched him back.

Trina rolled her eyes. She had expected a more mature response than the one she had been given. “Look, I don’t know where Raymond is. I haven’t seen him in almost a week. He’s taken off somewhere, and nobody knows where he is. I don’t know. His father doesn’t know. And you’re never going to find out by sitting out here where everybody can see you stalking me.” She placed both of her hands on the driver’s door.

“Well, we’re just going to stay right here to make sure he doesn’t need a hug and come home,” the driver responded. He grinned at Trina. “Why are you walking so slowly?” he asked. “You hurt or something?”

“Why are you sitting in a car? You fat or something?” she replied.

The passenger laughed.

“Why do you have Frank Twinhorse locked up?” Trina asked.

The driver stared straight ahead and didn’t answer. That last question had apparently angered him.

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