The Widower’s Secret by Georgia Wagner EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Georgia Wagner
- Language: English
- Genre: Conspiracy Thrillers
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There had to be a way to make the numbers work.
Sophie idly chewed her lip, sighing through her nose and shifting in the
uncomfortable, creaking hospital room chair as she stared at a hole through
her laptop’s screen. The chill of the air conditioning left a dewy mist on the
edges of the window into the early morning bake of a Louisiana summer.
She tried to ignore the beep of the heartrate monitor, the distant clack of
heels on tile hallways, and the muted coughing from other rooms. And with
all the focus she could muster, she tried not to look at the bed, set against
the far wall, just beside the gently flashing screen emitting that steady,
digital chime.
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She had lined up three separate windows on her computer to compare
them side by side. The first was her own bank account, commitments and
payment history stacked to give her the scope of her personal finances; the
last reserves of what Sophie Quinn had plundered from her assets six years
ago when she’d given up a thriving career as a globe-trotting magician,
mentalist, and hypnotist to hunt the madman who had murdered her sister…
the man who had nearly murdered her. It was not an insignificant sum… but
private investigators, bribes, and buying the tools to fuel her personal
crusade against the River Killer had made the end of that money a question
of when rather than if.
Clicking to the second window, she reviewed the latest bill from the
Baton Rouge hospital she currently sat in. Noah and Zadie Quinn had never
put much stock in insurance. There was a good deal of smiling and talk of
‘relying on the Lord to provide’, but from the moment Sophie was old
enough to understand what health insurance was, she had quietly assumed it
had more to do with the family’s flirtatious relationship with poverty and
Noah’s gravitational pull towards work that paid ‘under the table’ than with
Zadie Quinn’s spiritual convictions.
The man in the hospital bed stirred. A twitch really, just enough to let a
quiet rustle out from the blankets. Sophie’s gaze leapt to him. But her
father, Noah, had gone still again, the heartrate monitor keeping its chipper,
metronome beat as steady as it had been before.
She rubbed her eyes, then feeling tension in her spine, Sophie rolled her
neck and let her close-cropped, auburn hair briefly touch against the slate
grey of her suit coat’s shoulder. She’d been in this hospital on and off for
nearly a week now, ever since her mother had called in a panic to tell her
that her father had been shot. They slept in shifts, Sophie watching him
while Zadie was at home resting and gathering tupperware dinners from the
well-meaning members of her church.
When her father hadn’t woken up after the first two days, Sophie started
to prepare herself for the worst. But her father held on. His heavy keg of a
chest, caught between old muscle and a more recent beer belly, continued to
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