Another Saturday Night and I Ain't Got No Body (A Page Turners Novel) Read Online Free

small car. They worked quickly in unison to put out the garage fire.
    Edna and Sunny were wrapped in scratchy wool blankets and led to an ambulance that had pulled in behind the fire engines .
    Within an hour, the fire was out. The two women watched, huddled together, holding hands, as the garage folded into itself and collapsed into a smoky pile of rubble.
     
    * * *
     
    That Wednesday night, Sunny and Edna walked into Starbucks to the excited and shocked gasps of the Pleasant Valley Page Turners Book Club. Sunny had called Maggie and Cassie, her two best friends from college, and filled them in on the explosion at Walter’s, but this was the first time they had all seen each other since the fire. The smell of dark coffee mingled with Maggie’s expensive perfume as she hugged Sunny, but the real attention was showered on Edna as she limped toward the book club members.
    “Edna, honey, are you all right?” Cassie embraced Edna and gently guided her to the table.
    “Oh, thank you, dear. I’m sure I will be just fine.”  Edna eased into a chair, reveling in the role of the victim. She touched the large white bandage on her forehead. “The doctor insisted I needed stitches, but I told him I would be fine with just this little bandage.”
    Sunny rolled her eyes so hard she might have actually caught sight of her brain. Hello. My house was rocked by the explosion too. Who’s pulling out a chair for me ? Okay, maybe that was a little selfish, especially because while Edna stumbled from her home, bleeding from a head wound, Sunny had been wrapped in Jake’s arms, pressed against his amazing chest.
    Sunny shook herself to clear those thoughts from her head. Jake was smokin’ hot, but his arrival to their quiet neighborhood, coinciding with Walter’s garage going up in flames, still made her suspicious. What really worried her was the fact that Walter was still missing. Having a huge fireball on his property should have drawn him out of the woodwork. She had overheard Jake speaking with one of the firemen about a missing person’s report being filed for Walter, so at least he had taken that step, but she still felt like he was hiding something.
    Though tempted to blurt out her suspicions about Jake and the odd timing of Walter’s disappearance, Sunny was afraid she wouldn’t be able to talk about Jake without letting on that although she was suspicious of him, part of her still lusted after his body. And even if she played it up, Edna did get hurt, and Sunny didn’t want to take the attention away from her.
    “You look like you recently had a lobotomy,” Maggie told Edna. Her usual sarcasm didn’t hold much weight as she tenderly touched Edna’s shoulder after sliding into the seat next to hers.
    “I’ll get us our coffee,” Sunny told Edna.
    “Oh thank you, dear,” she replied with a heavy sigh, reminding Sunny more of Scarlett O’Hara than her elderly neighbor.
    Sunny returned to the table a few minutes later to see no one had handed Edna an Oscar yet, but it wasn’t from her lack of trying. She would have to settle for the frothy concoction of a mocha java chip frappucino with whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles that Sunny set in front of her before pulling up a chair next to Cassie’s niece, Piper.
    Sunny took a sip of her plain vanilla latte and tossed her purse into the multi-colored pile of bags under the table. Piper’s gray backpack leaned against Maggie’s expensive leather bag, which lay across Cassie’s denim purse, a quarter-sized stain visible just under the strap. “So, what did you all think of the book?”
    “It was sooo depressing,” Cassie said. She tended to like upbeat books where everyone lived happily ever after. The mother of two, she had been married for close to fifteen years, and lived her own happily ever after with an adoring husband. They had met in college, and Matt had fallen for this fun, flirty, petite blonde with a mass of curly hair that framed her cute pixie