The Dangers of an Ordinary Night by Lynne Reeves

Author:Lynne Reeves [Reeves, Lynne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books

CHAPTER

17

An Impossible Cure

MOMENTS AFTER CYN ends the phone call with Fitz, agreeing to meet him for coffee, his sister materializes in her new Boston College office. Keira Jameson holds a colorful ceramic bowl filled with an elegant orchid.

“I’d say welcome to Campion Hall,” Keira says, “but your guilty face is throwing me. Please tell me you weren’t talking to Noah.”

Keira’s concern is touching, and her kindness the only constant in Cyn’s life right now.

“Don’t worry. I want nothing to do with him.” Cyn steps around a stack of boxes to accept the gift.

“If you promise to keep it that way,” Keira says, “I could fix you up with someone much nicer.”

“And who would that be? Like I don’t already know.”

Keira throws her shoulders back in mock indignation. “You forget I am Southie born and raised. Fitz isn’t the only fine Irishman I can think of for you. Although I will say he’s the most talented. And you have to admit my brother is cute.”

“In all seriousness, you didn’t tell Fitz about Noah, did you?”

“I might have.” Keira pushes a pile of interoffice envelopes off to one side of a table, to make room for the plant.

“How in the world did that come up?”

“I thought you two looked kinda cozy the other night, and after you left, I might’ve told him that you weren’t seeing anybody right now. Blame it on the bourbon—the story slipped out.”

Cyn doesn’t need to ask Keira which part. Anybody telling it would cut right to the sensational climax.

The night everything fell apart, Cyn had finished work before seven. Noah stayed behind to see one more patient. As he ushered an anxious twenty-something into his office, he told Cyn that if she could wait to eat, he’d grab some Thai takeout on his way home. Using his body to block his client’s view, he’d kissed her and whispered, “Love you.”

At first, walking to their apartment ten blocks east of the office brownstone, Cyn looked forward to having a little time to herself. A comfy nightgown, curled up with a good book sounded good to her. Except the later it got without Noah at home, the more bent out of shape she became. When he didn’t answer his phone, irritation turned to panic. Quickly dressing in jeans and a sweater, Cyn retraced the route Noah would’ve taken to get home. The Thai place they frequented had closed already, and without anyone inside, there was no way to find out if he’d even made it that far. Cyn started to run.

At the office brownstone, she took the elevator to their suite. The simplest explanation was that a dog-tired Noah had lost track of time, writing session notes. That had happened before. Except those times he’d always answered his phone.

The waiting room was empty, and though her office was dark, his was dimly lit. Now that she knew he was okay, Cyn wasn’t about to hold back. She’d lay into to him for scaring her, for being so thoughtless.

At first it was impossible to make sense of what she was seeing.

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