THREE
HEARTS BEAT AS ONE
KAREN
MERCURY
Copyright
© 2013
Hell’s Delight,
California
This was painfully agonizing. And Ben
knew it. In fact, he was taking glee in it.
Why else would he come into Lacey’s
hardware store pretending to look for duct tape? He could have purchased that
at any grocery store. Same thing with the flashlight. He didn’t need to come
into Delight Hardware pretending he needed a flashlight to keep in his car. Something
was up. He must have another message to impart. Lacey knew Ben well enough by
now, unfortunately.
True, the yogurt shop his father had set
him up in was two blocks away down Jack London Street. Ben fancied himself a
big fish in a little pond in their small town, and he liked to walk the
downtown area waving to merchants, priding himself on the fact that he knew
everyone.



