by Diana Orgain | Jul 10, 2021 | Maternal Instincts Mysteries, Sneak Peek, Uncategorized
Did you miss Chapter One? From Prams and Poison Chapter Two The next day, Mom was practically glowing when she arrived for babysitting duty. She hung her purse on a hook on the wall and danced to the couch to take Laurie from me. When Mom was this excited about something, it usually meant trouble—that she’d bought something for Laurie that she loved but knew I would secretly hate, or that she’d gotten deeply invested in another one of her projects, which almost always involved meddling with something. I eyed her suspiciously. “What are you so excited about?” She planted a big kiss on Laurie’s chubby cheek. “Oh, I just had a perfectly lovely date with Hank yesterday. We went to Pier 39 to watch the sea lions!” Yup. Trouble. But I kept my face pleasantly neutral and started picking up the toys strewn around the living room. “That sounds like fun.” I didn’t even know where to start with my mom’s love life. She’d been dating two men, who were both crazy about her. They knew about each other—she hadn’t kept it a secret or anything—but it was quickly becoming clear that she was going to have to pick one to settle down with. It was like she was running her own personal finale of The Bache‐ lorette. Hank, an adventurous pharmacist who’d struck it rich on the stock market—Mom had no idea how rich—seemed nice enough. Though I did need to check into an odd claim another PI had made about him that he was part of a nefarious underground gambling ring and had exhibited a violent...
