Bound by Danger

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Author: Terry Spear
back hard against the seat. Dave reached over and patted her hand resting on her lap. One thing Dave would learn if she had anything further to do with him, she didn’t need to be consoled. A woman like this, she could handle on her own.
    Charlie finished his wine. “We met at the real estate office. Can you believe it? I’d just been hired and Marilyn walked into the office and wanted me to show her some properties. The boss fell all over himself and was going to assign another agent, but Marilyn said she only wanted me. We got to talking and well, she’s new here also and hadn’t met anybody so I asked her out. Isn’t she great?”
    Deidre fought saying something catty. “Good, then you should earn a commission pretty soon on the property you sell to her.”
    “He has to show me some properties first, dear.” Marilyn tilted her head back and drained her wine glass.
    Deidre’s lower lip dropped. I might say ‘you all’, but I don’t guzzle wine like a drunk. “So what kind of work do you do?”
    “Independently wealthy.”
    Good, she could support her brother when he didn’t make any sales. Somehow, she didn’t buy it though. “Oil wells?”
    The woman narrowed her eyes. “Kind of cliché, isn’t that?”
    Deidre wasn’t backing down. Her brother was a softhearted dope that would fall for a woman’s lies if she made him think he was the only one for her. Deidre fingered her burgundy linen napkin. “I take it you’re not from Texas, though you don’t seem to have any particular accent.”
    “You’re right.”
    Charlie refilled Marilyn’s glass.
    The waitress returned and took their orders, then departed again.
    “So where are you from?” Deidre continued.
    The woman played hard ball, but Deidre didn’t mind. If she could, she’d trip her up.
    “California.”
    “What part?”
    “Sacramento.”
    “Ah, Sacramento. Interesting place. Where in Sacramento?”
    The waitress served the lettuce salad topped with tomatoes, black olives, and shredded cheese. When she left them alone again, Deidre watched Marilyn poke her fork around at an olive resting at the edge of her lettuce, trying to avoid the issue. Deidre smiled. She had the woman now.
    “Didn’t Charlie tell you we lived in Sacramento for many years?” Deidre asked.

Chapter 4
     
     
    Marilyn’s face turned to stone.
    Deidre had her now. For whatever reason, the woman had lied about where she was from and why she came here. And latching onto her brother the way in which Marilyn did, probably served as part of the lie.
    Deidre took a deep breath as she fingered her wine glass. “So why did you want to relocate to Killeen? There’s nothing here but an old Army post.”
    Charlie, leaning forward to hear about the new love of his life up until this point, now squirmed in his seat. “How’s everyone’s salad?”
    “Great.” Dave hurried to fork up a portion from his chilled plate.
    “Fine, sweety,” Marilyn said with a saccharine-coated tone of voice. She gave Deidre a hard side-glance.
    Deidre smiled inwardly. Lady, you think you can wind my brother around your little finger, but when push comes to shove, it’ll be me he listens to. She shifted her attention to Dave. “So where are you from?”
    He smiled broadly. “ Not California.”
    She chuckled. The night was not going well at all. This dinner conversation was too tense for her.
    Dave swirled the remainder of his wine in his glass. “I’m from Florida.”
    “Ah, where in Florida?”
    Dave hesitated as she waited for his answer. She poised like a cat ready to pounce on a beetle if he made the incorrect move.
    Charlie laughed. “Be careful. Deidre should have been a private investigator. She’s just waiting for you to say the wrong thing. I have to warn you we’ve lived in Florida, too.”
    Dave grinned. “Merritt Island.”
    “Near the space program.” She nodded. “What school did you go to?”
    “Well, we moved before I started school.”
    Deidre sat back in her
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