Starfish Island by Brown Deborah

Author:Brown, Deborah [Brown, Deborah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Paradise Books LLC
Published: 2016-02-14T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

NICOLE PULLED HER car into the driveway and parked at the front door, surprised to see Victoria Peters sitting on the steps in workout clothes.

“What right do you have to treat Greg the way you do?” she demanded, jumping up and tossing back her long blond hair. “You’ve been spreading malicious lies, trying to drive him away. What a mistake people made in accepting you. I’m telling you now, neither you nor anyone else is going to pressure him into leaving.”

“Victoria,” Nicole began gently, “you don’t understand.” She couldn’t believe the venom and anger coming out of Victoria’s mouth.

“I understand more than you think,” she declared. “You and the Edwardses have ganged up on Greg. You’re going to be very sorry if you don’t stop, and stop now.” She raced down the stairs and stormed off down the street.

Ava came out the door. “I thought Victoria and Jake Edwards were all googly-eyed for one another. Poor Jake will be getting his heart broken.”

“Are you leaving for the day?”

Ava grinned. “See you tomorrow.” She bounced down the steps to a car that sat waiting at the curb.

Nicole scanned the street in hopes that she might see where Victoria had gone off to; she needed to set things straight between them before they got any worse. But the girl had disappeared.

This latest problem was too much. Could Greg have been involved in a land-fraud scheme with her property? And now Victoria was defending him… Maybe it was time to use her grandmother’s tactics and have Greg investigated. It might answer some of her questions about him.

The air smelled of rain. The sky darkened, black clouds hovering overhead as Nicole grabbed her purse out of the car and raced up the stairs. Chester, who’d been talking on his phone, ended the conversation abruptly when he saw her cross the threshold.

“Ellis will be here for dinner, Chester. Would you tell Rena I’d prefer fresh fish to be served?” she said, racing on upstairs

She stood in the doorway to the terrace and stared as the storm clouds burst, covering the landscape with giant raindrops. A thick marine layer descended over the water, blurring it from view.

Some afternoons seemed to crawl by, and this was one of them. She didn’t bother going into her studio since she knew she’d find it impossible to concentrate on her painting with so many unanswered questions haunting her every waking thought.

On impulse, she snuck into the room next to hers, looking for any sign of the woman whose crying she’d heard the night before. It surprised her to see the bedspread rumpled where the woman had apparently lain sobbing. How had the unknown woman gotten into the house? Nicole hadn’t heard her come through the window, the way the man had. More importantly, where had she disappeared to and was she still in the house?

Nicole wandered through the house, turning on lights as she entered rooms, trying to dispel the darkness and drive the shadows into hiding. She thought

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