A Trouble'd Christmas by Susan Y. Tanner

Author:Susan Y. Tanner [Tanner, Susan Y.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781393332633
Google: OsJszgEACAAJ
Publisher: KaliOka Press
Published: 2019-11-15T10:37:19.270649+00:00

Mace walked out his front door and hit the sidewalk, shoving his hands deep into his jacket pockets. He breathed in the crisp, cold air of freedom. To his surprise, the address Fee had given was within walking distance of the place they’d chosen together. For one brief moment, he wondered if that had been intentional. But no, he thought, why would she? He’d left her with no reason to do that.

The Christmas lights the city had festooned across the streets and wound through tree limbs mocked him with memories of Christmases past.

He’d been wrong. He knew that now, but he didn’t have a clue how to make it right. Or even if he could. He could blame a lot of things. The shock of the accusation, of being walked from his own home in handcuffs. The bewilderment, then the fear at hearing the evidence stacked up against him, things he knew nothing about.

But those things should never have turned him against the one person, beside Linc and his parents, who’d stood steadfast by his innocence. He still couldn’t fathom that he’d been tried and convicted for a crime that someone else had committed and that the person or persons had never been found. Because no one had looked. He’d been judged guilty. Case closed.

His steps slowed as he approached Fee’s house. He’d never think of it as her home. Her home was the house they’d chosen to start their life together. At least it should have been. He took the path set with pavers from her driveway to her front door. His steps sounded as hollow as he’d felt inside since his arrest.

Felecia answered almost as soon as he pressed the doorbell and he wondered if she’d been watching at a window. He couldn’t read anything in her expression.

She stepped back. “Come in.”

“No,” he said quietly. “I came to apologize. Whatever you did, why ever you did it, it’s done and I’m not dragging you into what I have to do now.”

Fee’s eyebrows lifted. “That’s an apology?”

“I wanted to hurt you and I guess I succeeded but it didn’t make me feel any better. And it never will. I was a jackass and I’m sorry for that.”

“Yes, you were,” she said evenly. “You still are but you may as well come in. You’ve already dragged me into what you have to do and there’s no way to undo that. You can’t un-drag me, just as you can’t unsay what you said or unthink what you thought.”

“What do you mean I can’t un-drag you?”

“It’s too late for that. I won’t let you.” She sighed. “Just come in, Mace.”

Frowning, he walked through the door and waited as she closed it behind him. “What’s up, Fee?”

“Do you remember Nathan Crenshaw?”

“Wayne’s foreman? Yeah … why?”

“Come into the dining room. I have my laptop set up there.”

He followed as she led the way, eyeing the black cat who seemed to have a thing for tables and countertops. When Fee gestured to a seat across

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