Love Inspired Suspense April 2015 #2
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She sought a polite, kind word. “Nuts. She had expected to take over my parents’ restaurant when they retired—”
Pain pierced Lana deep in her heart. She missed her parents so much. “But then the fire happened. An accidental grease fire, the arson investigator said. Our parents perished in the blaze and the restaurant was destroyed. My parents had let the restaurant’s insurance lapse—”
To pay her college tuition. Guilt twisted her insides into a pretzel. “After all the debts were paid from their life insurance there was nothing left. Not even our childhood home. I invited Rosa to come live with my husband and me. She came out to DC, but only stayed a few days. I don’t know where she went after that. We lost touch until she showed up on my doorstep three years ago.”
Right around the time Lana had filed for divorce and had moved out of the apartment she’d shared with Mark. Lana would never forget the chaos of those days. The pain and humiliation.
“She stayed with me for a couple weeks, then she found her own place. The day she moved out was the last time I spoke with her.” The hurtful things her sister had said cut so deep and were never far from Lana’s mind. “I didn’t know she was working for Congressman Jeffries until I heard it on the news.”
She hadn’t known about Juan, either. There was so much about her sister she hadn’t known.
“What caused the rift between you?”
She bristled as a tidal wave of guilt swamped her. “That has nothing to do with anything that’s happening now.”
“Let me be the judge of that. It seems a little too coincidental that your sister meets an untimely death and then a month later there’s a breakin at your place of employment where you’re attacked, struck over the head and left for dead.”
She shivered as his words sank in. “You believe my sister was murdered, don’t you?”
He didn’t need to say a word. She could read the confirmation in the way his jaw hardened and his eyebrows twitched.
Her hand pressed against her heart. “And now you think whoever killed my sister is after me?”
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