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Cedar Cove #8
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September 2008
On Sale: September 1, 2008
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ISBN: 0778325784
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Dear Reader,
I have something to confide in you. I think my husband,
Dave, might be having an affair. I found an earring in his
pocket, and it's not mine. I'm also worried because some
jewelry was recently stolen from an old woman—and Dave
used to visit her a lot.
You see, he's a pastor. And a good man. I can't believe
he's guilty of anything, but why won't he tell me where
he's been when he comes home so late?
Reader, I'd love to hear what you think. I also want to
tell you what's going on with your other friends in Cedar
Cove. Like Sheriff Troy Davis, to mention one. His long-
ago love, Faith Beckwith, just moved here!
So come on in and join me for a cup of tea.
Emily Flemming
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
They say the wife is always the last to know.
Except that Emily Flemming did know and she'd known for
more than a week. Dave, her husband, was involved with
someone else. Only Dave wasn't just Dave Flemming. He was
Pastor Dave Flemming. The thought that her husband loved
another woman was intolerable, unthinkable, unbearable.
Dave's betrayal was bad enough, but disregarding his moral
obligations to his congregation and his God—she could
hardly believe it. This shocking secret was completely
inconsistent with everything she knew about her husband.
Ever since the night of their anniversary dinner, Emily
had carefully guarded what she'd learned. She'd been in
the church office, waiting for Dave, and had reached for
his suit jacket, which hung on the back of his door. When
she draped it over her arm, a diamond earring had fallen
out of the pocket. Later she'd discovered the second one
in the other pocket. Emily had certainly never owned
anything as extravagant as this pair of large, diamond-
studded pendant earrings.
In the beginning Emily had assumed the earrings were an
anniversary present; however, she quickly realized they
couldn't be. For one thing, they weren't in a jeweler's
box. But even if they had been, it wasn't possible. Dave
could never have afforded diamond earrings on their tight
family budget.
Emily should have asked immediately…and hadn't. She'd been
afraid of ruining their special evening with her
suspicions. But almost at once, other details had begun to
add up in her mind. She could no longer ignore the fact
that Dave so often worked late, especially since the
private hour they'd shared after dinner had gone by the
wayside. It might've been her imagination but he seemed to
take extra long with his grooming, too.
Her suspicions doubled and tripled. She held them close to
her heart, examining them over and over, trying to make
sense of her husband's behavior. Whenever she asked where
he'd been, Dave's answers were vague. Another warning
sign…
"Mommy, when's Daddy coming home?" Mark, the younger of
her two sons, asked as he looked up from his plate. He was
eight and his dark brown eyes were identical to his
father's.
Emily had the same question. "Soon," she said as
reassuringly as she could. Two or three times a week, Dave
didn't get home until well after dinner. At first she'd
made excuses for him to their boys. Now she didn't know
what to tell them.
"Dad hardly ever eats with us," Matthew complained,
sitting down next to his younger brother.
Dave's lateness had started gradually. He used to make a
point of being there for the evening meal. As she stared
into space, Emily couldn't help wondering if he was having
dinner with some other woman…some other family. She chased
away the thought with a determination that stiffened her
spine.
For the sake of her children, Emily dragged out her
standard excuse. "Your father's been busy at the church."
"Every night?"
Her sons echoed Emily's own dissatisfaction. "It seems
so," she returned lightly, pretending all was well as she
joined them at the dinner table. They automatically
clasped hands and bowed their heads while Emily recited
grace. Silently she added a prayer for herself, asking for
courage to face whatever the future might hold for her
marriage.
"Shouldn't we wait for him at least one night?" Mark said
as he reluctantly picked up his fork.
"You two have homework, don't you?" she asked, ignoring
his question.
"But Dad—"
"Your father will eat later."
"Will he get home before we go to bed?" Matthew, her
sensitive son, asked.
"I don't know," she said, swallowing hard.
She made a pretense of eating. Her appetite had
disappeared the minute she'd found those diamond earrings.
That was the start—the wake-up call she'd ignored for
months. Naturally, she'd told herself, there could be any
number of explanations for those earrings. She'd intended
to ask him about it the very next day…and hadn't.
Emily knew what held her back. She didn't want to hear the
truth; she simply wasn't ready for it. She dreaded the
consequences once she did finally confront him.
She'd questioned her husband, more than once, about his
late nights. But Dave brushed aside her concern and
offered ambiguous excuses, mentioning people she'd never
met and meetings she didn't know about. He almost seemed
to resent her asking, so after a while she'd stopped.
She supposed she had her answer. Since the discovery of
the diamond earrings, she had a perfectly clear picture of
what was happening—what had already happened. Sadly,
pastors were as susceptible to temptation as anyone else.
Like all sinners, they, too, could be lured into affairs.
They, too, could make irreparable mistakes.
If Emily had hoped this was just a misunderstanding, that
she'd allowed it to grow out of all proportion in her
mind, those hopes had been destroyed. Earlier in the week,
she'd run into Bob and Peggy Beldon at the grocery store.
They owned the local bed-and-breakfast, Thyme and Tide. As
the three of them stood in the middle of the aisle
exchanging pleasantries, Bob casually said that he missed
playing golf with Dave.
As long as the weather permitted, the two of them had
played weekly for the past three years. In a matter of
minutes, she'd ferreted out the information she'd been
afraid to learn. Dave had given up golfing more than a
year ago. A year! Yet every week last summer, he'd loaded
up his golf clubs on Monday afternoons and driven off,
supposedly to meet Bob. Obviously he'd been meeting
someone else.
Emily sighed. She couldn't continue to let her mind wander
down this well-traveled path of doubt and suspicion. Half
the time she acted the role of the quiet, unassuming wife;
the rest of the time it was all she could do to refrain
from demanding an explanation. She wanted the truth no
matter how painful it might be—and yet she didn't. What
wife ever did?
So far she'd remained silent. She was astonished by how
good she'd become at pretending everything was fine. None
of her friends suspected. What bothered her almost as much
as her suspicions was the fact that Dave didn't seem to
have any idea that she'd caught on. She wondered if he'd
broach the subject. Maybe if he knew she'd figured out
what was going on… Perhaps that was what she'd been
waiting for. She wanted him to ask her.
But Dave never asked. If she managed to put on a marvelous
performance, then so did her husband. Last Sunday he'd
actually spoken from the pulpit about the importance of
marriage, of loving one's spouse.
Emily felt like the most unloved woman in the world. She
could barely stop herself from breaking into heart-
wrenching sobs right there in front of the entire
congregation. Naturally everyone must have assumed she'd
been overcome with emotion, since Dave's sermon, by
implication, had honored her. She wanted to tell them
that, beautiful though his words were, that was all they
were. Words.
It was hard to believe this could be happening to them.
Emily had always been so sure they had a solid marriage,
and that Dave was her best friend. Apparently she was
wrong.
The door leading to the garage opened and to her surprise
he walked into the house.
"Dad!" Mark slid out of his chair, running toward his
father as if he hadn't seen him in a year.
"Hey there, little man, how's it going?" Dave reached down
and swung their son into his arms. Mark was too big to be
picked up like a child, but he craved the attention from
his father.
Dave kissed Emily on the cheek, then ruffled Matthew's
hair before he sat down. "I'm glad I made it home in time
for dinner tonight."
"Me, too," Mark said, his eyes glowing.
Despite everything, her own happiness sprang to life
again, and Emily got up and brought a fourth place setting
to the table.
When she passed him the enchilada casserole she'd made, he
took a heaping serving, then grinned over at her. "You
fixed one of my favorites," he said. "Thank you."
"You're welcome." She met his look, letting him know with
her eyes how much she loved him. Maybe, regardless of the
evidence, all her unhappy suspicions were wrong.
"Can you help me with my homework after dinner, Dad?" Mark
asked.
Their younger son was the top student in his class, far
ahead of the other second-graders. He didn't need any
assistance. What he really wanted was time with his
father.
"You promised to throw me the football, remember?" Matthew
said. Never mind that it was late November and already
dark outside,
He, too, wanted time with Dave. The children weren't the
only ones; Emily needed all the reassurance he had to
offer. Hard as she tried to cast aside these doubts, they
refused to die. She didn't want to lose her husband. She
loved Dave no matter what and was determined to keep her
marriage together—or at least make every possible effort.
"Hold on, hold on." Dave laughingly raised both
hands. "Give me a minute to catch my breath, would you?"
Both boys stared expectantly at their father. Emily
couldn't bear to look at their eager faces. Seeing the
love for him in their eyes made her feel like weeping.
"Let your dad eat his dinner," she said.
"After that, I'll help you both, but I'd like a few
minutes alone with your mother first," Dave said, glancing
at Emily.
A chill raced down her spine, and she was afraid to meet
his eyes.
"Aw, Dad," Mark whined.
"It won't take long," he promised. "Eat your green beans."
"Okay."
Emily handed Dave the bowl of buttered beans with sliced
almonds. He took a small portion. Green beans weren't his
favorite vegetable, either, and this was her way of
suggesting he set a good example.
Following dinner, the boys cleared the table, then went to
their room for study hour. This had been Dave's idea.
Whether they had homework or not, Matthew and Mark were to
spend one hour every night reading, writing or reviewing
their schoolwork. The television wasn't allowed to be on,
nor were video games permitted.
As the boys trudged to their room, Emily made a pot of
coffee, keeping her back to Dave as she worked. Asking to
speak to h...