Destiny's Magic (2015)
““Nothing,” Susan lied to the precious boy standing at the doorway of her darkened bedroom. Earlier today the extortion money should have changed hands. Rufus West had sent an insect to collect it. But Remy Cinglure scared Angela Paget away.
Susan expected the detective at any moment to pound on the front door of 21 rue Royale and tear her boy away from the only home he’d ever known. Burke had gone back on his word, while he still claimed innocence. If he were faultless, how had Cinglure known t...o be at the cemetery?
Pippin cocked his head. “Why are you crying?”
“A cinder in my eye,” she further lied, and reached for a lucifer to light the candelabrum at bedside. She wanted a good look at him in case she’d need to commit his features to memory. “Come here, dumpling of mine.”
He scrambled into her lap, all freckles and cowlick and big blue-gray eyes. But when she tried to kiss his forehead, a protest met her. “I don’t want no kiss from a lady with red eyes and a runny nose.MoreLess
Susan expected the detective at any moment to pound on the front door of 21 rue Royale and tear her boy away from the only home he’d ever known. Burke had gone back on his word, while he still claimed innocence. If he were faultless, how had Cinglure known t...o be at the cemetery?
Pippin cocked his head. “Why are you crying?”
“A cinder in my eye,” she further lied, and reached for a lucifer to light the candelabrum at bedside. She wanted a good look at him in case she’d need to commit his features to memory. “Come here, dumpling of mine.”
He scrambled into her lap, all freckles and cowlick and big blue-gray eyes. But when she tried to kiss his forehead, a protest met her. “I don’t want no kiss from a lady with red eyes and a runny nose.MoreLess
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