Brushes - Book 2 of the Stitches Trilogy
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This scene from BRUSHES is taken
from Chapter Two.
Jean and Spence have just arrived home from checking out the bungalow they've inherited from Mary Coulter. They run smack into a reporter who's been staking out their house, and he pounces on them about the death of Raleigh Coulter in London. Questions are swirling about Raleigh being killed killed by an enormous hawk. Only the Collinses and an FBI agent know the truth: it really was a hawk . . . a magical hawk.
Spence came through the door
spitting tacks. “That reporter insinuated that we killed Raleigh to get his mother’s estate! Can you
believe that guy?” Mycroft turned tail and ran upstairs.
“Where did they come up with
that?” Jean asked and flinched when the doorbell rang. She rushed to the
peephole. “Same guy.”
“Ignore
him,” Spence said, throwing the car keys on the kitchen island. “He just took a
string of incidents and found a common thread that would be a cheap, dirty way
to sell the newscast. That guy doesn't know that the real truth would sell a
hellava lot more.”
“But he mentioned the hawk --
and witnesses.”
“Now I think getting out of
town is a really good idea.”
“Let’s talk to Jon when he and Meg come over
for Thanksgiving. If we’re being hounded, I’m sure he’s feeling the pinch too.”
She
looked up at Spence, both of them having calmed down. “Hey, you were pretty
chivalrous out there. I kind of like this damsel-in-distress stuff.”
Spence wiggled his eyebrows at
her. Then he said, “Where’s Mycroft?”
“He
ran upstairs. I bet you couldn't blow him out of the comforter with a stick of dynamite.”
“Then
he’s going to have to move over.” Spence wrapped his arms around her and kissed her. “Let’s go upstairs, right after I
take the batteries out of the doorbell.”
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Great scene. I like the affection between them.
ReplyDeleteI like the way you build suspense and then temper it with romance. Well done!
ReplyDeleteGreat scene!
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