Chapter 5

"Oh." He hung up his coat and came over. "Of course I remember. I was out of town, and your call scared me half to death."

"Where were you, exactly?" I asked.

"The Sunrise Suites. Yeah, some project in another city," he said, easy about it.

"What day did you get back?" I asked.

"Three days later, I think. First thing I did was buy you flowers," he said, as if it were nothing.

He said all of it easily.

He didn't even hesitate.

But I knew he had checked out of the Sunrise Suites on the fifteenth.

On the…