The Unworthy Wife by Rachel Woods & Angel Vane

Author:Rachel Woods & Angel Vane [Woods, Rachel & Vane, Angel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781943685127
Publisher: BonzaiMoon Books
Published: 2018-03-13T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

A trip to the grocery store was the last thing Noelle wanted to tackle, even without a rambunctious three-year-old and a fussy, teething ten-month-old to contend with, but she had to.

After Beanie left for work, she’d gotten Ethan and Evan fed, bathed and dressed and then dropped them off at her mom’s house. Without the boys, she could get her To Do list taken care of quickly, but she missed Ethan and Evan. She wondered if she should spend every moment she could with them while she still could, while she was still free.

Noelle pushed the shopping cart through the fresh produce section. She shouldn’t think of going to jail for a crime she hadn’t committed. She wanted to be positive and hopeful, but it was becoming harder to keep a positive attitude—especially about her job.

The day after she’d been arrested, Beanie had called the company to inform them, but they hadn’t given him any indication of whether or not she would be fired.

An early morning phone call from Octavia had shed more light on the situation. The Palmchat Pharmacy HR department had finally made contact. Noelle had braced herself, figuring she’d been terminated, but surprisingly, Octavia had told her the company had decided to place her on administrative leave without pay pending the results of the charges against her.

She probably should have been grateful that she hadn’t been fired and the company hadn’t rushed to condemn her. They had every right to disassociate themselves with a suspected murderer, but they were willing to see how the situation would play out before disavowing her.

Nevertheless, it felt foreign to be shopping for toilet paper and toothpaste at ten in the morning when she should have been working. A wave of intense melancholy washed over her. Noelle gripped the handle on the cart so she wouldn’t sob. Her life was going to hell, and she didn’t know how to put out the flames threatening to consume her. She couldn’t help but think she was being punished for past sins. Her mother encouraged her not to condemn herself, but her mother didn’t know about all the horrible things she’d done, things she’d gotten away with but shouldn’t have …

As she stopped the cart in front of an apple bin, her phone beeped. A text message. Noelle’s heart raced as she pulled the phone from her purse.

The message made her knees weak, filling her with relief and revulsion.

Purple Gecko. 3 pm

It was a response from Grady Palmer, and Noelle knew exactly what the message meant. Before she’d dropped the boys off, she’d sent Grady a text requesting a meeting to talk about his offer to help her. She’d hoped he would get back to her quickly but his text put fear and guilt in her.

In the plan she’d outlined to get proof that the PC-5 had framed her, Beanie would secretly accompany her to the meeting. He would be her backup, watching out for her, keeping her safe. Even as she’d explained that plan to her husband, Noelle had known she wasn’t going to stick to it.

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