Silk Stalkings by Diane Vallere

Author:Diane Vallere
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-06-29T09:19:37+00:00

Twenty

Charlie took off after her. I stood by the door. Seconds later an engine started up and a car jumped out of the darkness. It was the abandoned pickup that Charlie left in the yard behind her shop. The truck tore through the grass until it reached the sidewalk. It slowed to navigate over the curb, and then it took off into the night.

I waited by the back door until Charlie returned. She cursed. “I should have expected this,” she said.

“You can’t go through life expecting the worst of people. Ned did a very good thing for you when you lived with him, and there might be a valid explanation.”

“I’m not talking about that, I’m talking about trusting the daughter of a mechanic with a rusted-out, broken-down car. To anybody else, that truck was a piece of junk. To a mechanic, it’s a getaway car hiding in plain sight.”

“Where do you think she’d go?”

“Who knows? The pageant rules say she’s supposed to reside with her relative. That’s me. I doubt she’d go back to Ned, not after what she heard us talking about.”

“What was she doing here? I thought you said she was in your apartment?”

“My apartment’s not far from here. She could have followed me, or worse, maybe she planned to take the car before she heard us.”

It was after midnight when I made it back to my apartment. So much had happened since this morning—Giovanni and the seamstresses arriving, Violet’s angry outburst, Inez’s story at Halliwell Industries, and Charlie’s explanation of Lucy’s relationship to her—that I couldn’t believe it had only been a day. I took a quick shower, changed into a black cotton nightgown, and eased myself under the covers between Pins and Needles. Pins wrapped one of his gray paws over my leg and rested his chin on my kneecap. Seconds later we were all asleep.

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