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Dead Giveaway
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Mesa, Arizona

"How can it be almost ninety degrees? It's the second of December, for crying out loud," Lindy Sims complained, slouching onto her sister's sofa and kicking off her heels.

"What are you complaining about? It's beautiful outside." Gabrielle Tucker piled the lunch dishes in the sink, scooped up her seventeen-month-old daughter, Allie, and joined Lindy on the couch.

"We live in the desert. It's always beautiful outside," Lindy replied, toying with the cell phone in her lap. "What I wouldn't give for a rain cloud."

"Quit trying to change the subject," Gabrielle said.

"I'm not trying to change the subject."

Her sister gave her the evil eye. "Every time I want to talk about David, you change the subject."

Lindy glanced at her watch, suddenly anxious to leave. She was a district attorney fairly new at her job, so work kept her busy. But she had another twenty minutes before she needed to head back to the office, and Gabrielle knew it. "That's not true. There's just nothing to say. You set me up with your ex-husband. We went out to dinner. He never called me again. End of story," she said. But that wasn't the end of the story. Not by a long shot.

Gabrielle straightened the bow in her daughter's hair. "You had a good time with him."

Lindy couldn't deny that, so she said nothing.

"Why not let me set you up with him again?" Gabrielle asked.

Too nervous to remain sitting, Lindy tossed her cell phone aside and stood up to stare out the living room window of Gabrielle's new four-bedroom home. "If he liked me, he'd ask me out himself."

"David's a wonderful guy, but sometimes he doesn't know what's good for him. And maybe I'm mistaken, but it seemed as though there was a spark between you two. When you called me the morning after he took you to dinner, I got the impression you really liked him."

Lindy put a self-conscious hand to her stomach. She had liked him - well enough to make one of the biggest mistakes of her life. At some point, she was going to have to tell Gabrielle about that mistake. But she wasn't ready yet. She and her half-sister were close, but they'd only found each other three months ago. Three months wasn't nearly long enough for Gabrielle to know that Lindy's actions that night had been completely out of character. Lindy was generally conservative, cautious and slow to trust. She still wasn't sure what had happened with David to change all of that. One minute they were having dinner and a glass of wine. The next they were opening another bottle at his place while watching a movie. And then...

Her cheeks began to burn. Steering her thoughts away from what had followed, she glanced at her watch again. "I'd better get back."

"You've got a minute," Gabrielle said. "If I can talk David into asking you out for New Year's, will you say yes? Randall and I have tickets to a Creed concert. We want you to join us."

Lindy felt like banging her head against the glass. Because of David, she was going to be a single parent. She and Gabrielle would be shuttling their kids off to the same man every weekend. And she didn't have any idea how to break the news....

"You're wasting your time with me and David," she said. "He's not interested."

Gabrielle sighed. "If he wasn't so stubborn, he'd see that you two are perfect for each other."

Perfect for each other... Lindy had thought she'd finally found the man of her dreams. Until he'd awkwardly apologized in the morning for what had happened in the night, driven her home and never contacted her again. "Evidently, he doesn't think I'm so great," she said.

"He just doesn't know you the way I do."

David didn't know a lot of things — one thing in particular. And Lindy wasn't looking forward to telling him....

To be continued...