As Time Goes By by Clark Mary Higgins

Author:Clark, Mary Higgins [Clark, Mary Higgins]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Suspense, thriller, Adult, Crime, Romance
ISBN: 9781501131103
Goodreads: 28688502
Publisher: Simon Schuster
Published: 2016-04-05T07:00:00+00:00

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The day that Peter Benson testified at the trial, three neighbors were Betsy’s loyal supporters in the courtroom. They wanted her to join them for dinner at one of their homes, but she firmly turned them down. “You’re all so good,” she told them, “but I’m absolutely exhausted. I’m going straight to bed.”

Once again the media crowded around her as with her defense team she made her way to the car. Peter had not exchanged glances with her after he left the stand. Without his telling her, she knew that he was desperately afraid that his testimony might have been harmful to her.

In her mind she could see him as though he had been beside her when he told the prosecutor that he loved her and would ask her to marry him. And if they ask me that same question when I am on the stand, I will have to answer that same way, she thought, because it’s true. It has been true since I bumped into him in the museum. She knew that Peter would call her tonight. It had been eighteen months since she had seen or heard from him, and they desperately needed each other. The minute she realized she was under suspicion of having murdered Ted and hired Robert Maynard, he had warned her not to have any contact with Peter until the trial was over.

For some reason she thought of the brief time she had lived in New York City when she was in her early twenties. I used to rent an apartment on the West Side, Betsy recalled, but then when I knew I was not cut out to work at a PR firm, I went for my master’s at night. Then I was hired to teach at Pascack Valley and moved back to New Jersey.

And met Ted.

For the rest of the way home she closed her eyes and willed herself not to think about what would happen if she was found guilty of murder.

She had told Carmen not to worry about preparing dinner for her, but when she got home, Carmen was there.

“Miss Betsy, I can’t have you not bothering to eat,” she said. “And this morning you told me that you absolutely were not going to accept a dinner invitation.”

“Yes, I did,” Betsy said and realized that the scent of baking chicken probably meant that Carmen was preparing a chicken pot pie, one of her favorite dishes. She went upstairs to change into slacks and a long-sleeve shirt. As always in the bedroom she glanced around hoping that somehow she would think of a place where Ted might have hidden the emerald-and-diamond bracelet. But, of course, that was useless. She and Carmen had ransacked not only this room but the whole house looking for it. I might as well put in a claim to the insurance company, she thought.

When she went downstairs Carmen had a glass of wine poured for her. She sipped it in the den as she watched the end of the five o’clock news.

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