High Fidelity by S.E. Biglow

Author:S.E. Biglow [Biglow, S.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Biglow Mystery Reads

12

I barely slept Saturday night. Every time I closed my eyes, all I saw were the swirling faces of Andrew’s exes, combining into a tangled mess of motives and questions. By six o’clock, I was out of bed and padding down the stairs to the kitchen. To my surprise, Casey stood there staring blearily at the coffee pot.

“Morning,” I greeted.

My words made her jump as she pivoted to look at me. Recognition slowly dawned on her as she wrapped her arms tight about her torso. “Sorry, I’m just jumpy.”

“You’ve no reason to apologize. You’re the one going through hell right now,” I countered.

“It all just feels so surreal. Like, one minute I know he’s gone and the next I’ve got this stupid hope that it’s all a bad dream and I’ll wake up … and we’ll still be getting married.”

I glanced to the coffee pot on the counter. Tania might be magical with food, but Ginny was amazing with coffee. “I know we don’t know each other, but how about I buy you a cup of coffee. I’m a good listener.”

Casey offered up a genuine smile. “Thank you. I think I’d like that.”

Donning coats, I led the way down the front steps and toward Main Street. As we walked, I caught Casey looking around at the shops still shuttered on a Sunday morning.

“You know, seeing the church was the first time Andrew ever brought me to Brookhaven.”

“You never came to visit when you first started seeing each other?’

“No. I mean, I know he doesn’t live here anymore, but I wanted to see where he grew up. I begged him a few times to take me for a weekend away. His dad would have let us stay at his house. But he didn’t want to.’

“Why not?”

She shrugged. “I don’t know. He wouldn’t talk about it. He just kept saying that he’d come back here to get married, but that was it. This was his past.”

“I don’t want to be insensitive, but you knew he’d been married before right?”

“I knew there’d been other women. He was open about that. He’d married really young and wasn’t ready.”

“It didn’t bother you?”

Casey brushed a few strands of hair from her face. “It probably sounds horrible to say, but I was kind of relieved, like he’d gotten his mid-life crisis out of way before we even met.”

“The age difference didn’t worry you?”

“People thought I was going to be some trophy wife, but that’s not at all what we had. He loved me. He supported my ambitions and interests. Andrew wanted to see me succeed, and have a career and life of my own.”

“I mean, the fact he was rich didn’t hurt either,” I noted.

“He could have been dirt poor and I still would have loved him. I’m not stupid. I know a lot of people saw him as some rich guy who just moved from one woman to the next, but it wasn’t like that with us.”

By the time we reached Ginny’s, the lights were on inside and someone had flipped the sign to ‘Open.

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