Joyce climbed inside the car and reached over to pull the belt from the handle, before tilting slightly only to stop when she saw a hand with a huge Goldring on the ring finger.
She blinked once, twice, thrice before following the hand to the elbow, connecting it with the arm to the neck, and at last to the head.
Adrian Murphy was in her car.
Joyce gasped silently. "I.. I was told that you were in that car, Daphne went in that one." She pointed to the one ahead of them.
"I know which car my mother went in." Adrian acknowledged. "She knows that I'm not in that car. I wanted to talk to you."
"Oh, about what?"
In this moment, her heart beat so quickly and loudly against her chest that she could feel it in her head. Somehow, that connection was established. In fact, she could feel it in her entire body.
His eyes, which had been on her until now, moved to the shop that they now passed as they drove forward. "Did you try any new donuts?"
