Getting Caught in the Rain by Melinda Barron

Author:Melinda Barron [Barron, Melinda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blushing Books Publications
Published: 2019-12-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

The smell of mustiness hit Rachel as she opened the front door of Agatha’s house the next evening. It had not even been two weeks since Agatha had died, yet the house felt unused and a little—what was the word she was searching for—scary. Yes, that was the word that came to mind.

Yet she wasn’t scared, so maybe that wasn’t the word. Perhaps it was uneasy. She did this sort of work all the time, yet she’d never done it for someone she knew so well, someone she loved. She hated the thought she would never see Agatha again, never talk to her, never laugh at her stories.

She wanted to sit and cry, but she knew that would not do, because she felt that once she started she would not stop, and she had things to do.

“Hello, Agatha,” Rachel said into the empty space. She didn’t expect an answer, but it felt right to greet her old friend. She brushed away the tears that had threatened and laughed. “If you were watching us last night you got quite an eyeful, didn’t you? You didn’t realize we liked things differently, did you? Or maybe you did, who knows. You were always one to notice things that no one else seemed to.”

Rachel tossed her purse on the sofa and took off her coat and let it fall in the small place. Dex was bringing dinner, enchiladas and tamales, he’d said. When she’d asked where he was buying them from, he told her that Carrie was cooking. She did it every day for Dex and Tommy while they were out working Buffalo Gap.

“She makes homemade tamales?” Rachel had asked. That thought knocked her for a loop, since the most Rachel ever cooked was canned soup, and boxed macaroni and cheese.

“She’s at the house all day,” Dex had answered. “She makes all sorts of things.”

Rachel already felt a little intimidated by Tommy’s wife, whom she’d first thought of as Dex’s girlfriend. Knowing Carrie could cook didn’t help matters. But if her relationship with Dex was going to work, Rachel knew she would have to learn to get along with Carrie. That might be a little difficult, because the woman obviously didn’t like her.

Rachel didn’t know for certain the reasons, but she knew if she were Carrie, who felt close to Dex because of her husband, she would hate the woman who had broken his heart. After last night’s discussion, she was sure Dex had told Tommy, who had told his wife, that he could not have the woman he loved.

It was a tricky situation that would have to be faced at some time, but not now. She had things to do, a job that she didn’t want to have, but had to face.

“All right, Agatha, where is your hidey-hole?” Rachel spread out her arms. “Tell me there is one, one that contains all your secrets. Point me in the right direction. A light will do. Or a knocking.”

She waited, half expecting something to happen.

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