Lethal Lawman by Carla Cassidy

Author:Carla Cassidy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Friday night Marlene sat on the edge of the bed, her laptop open in front of her as she worked on a new recipe that had popped into her head.

She glanced at the clock on the nightstand. Almost eight. Frank had said he’d stop by sometime after dark, and she couldn’t believe how much she was looking forward to seeing him.

She’d been completely alone for the entire week, although she and Frank had shared many phone calls. Still, she was surprised to discover that she didn’t like this kind of complete isolation.

Certainly the phone calls from Frank had helped. Some had simply been short updates, but others had been long, sharing questions and answers that had nothing to do with the crime, but were more personal in nature. Talking on the phone wasn’t the same as having actual human contact.

Like a ghost, she’d wandered the house only at night in the dark, afraid of being seen in any of the other rooms by neighbors.

In the past five days of wraithlike existence, she’d had a lot of time to think and had realized that for the past year she’d been going through her life like a ghost, drifting from day to day, alone and haunted by memories that had kept her rattling chains of loneliness.

The investigation hadn’t moved forward in the past week. Nobody had been able to pin down Matt’s whereabouts, no bogeyman had raised his head to show his face, and Michael Arello had done nothing to raise suspicions.

Each time she spoke to Frank she felt his frustration radiating over the phone. She hoped he brought news with him when he arrived, as she hadn’t spoken to him since early that morning.

He’d told her not to eat dinner, that he would bring Chang Li’s for them to eat when he arrived. With that in mind, she’d brought plates and silverware into the bedroom and thought about how crazy it was to eat on her aunt’s bed on an ancient pink bedspread with a man she was intensely drawn to while hiding out from a killer.

Definitely the world was topsy-turvy, yet when she thought about how much she wanted her life back, she’d begun to think she didn’t want the same life she’d lived in the past year. For the first time since leaving Pittsburgh and returning to Wolf Creek, she wanted something different. She wanted more.

She wasn’t sure yet what more meant, but she was thinking maybe doing a little catering business might be the answer until she could eventually make enough money to perhaps consider that bakery she’d always dreamed about.

Nerves jumped in her stomach as she heard the faint sound of the garage door opening and, a moment later, closing. Finally, Frank had arrived.

She stood by the side of the neatly made bed and saw the faint shine of the flashlight he carried, along with a large bag from Chang Li’s, as he came down the hallway toward her. “Finally, a human face and he carries food,” she said softly.

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