A Dark Horse by Cooper Blayne

Author:Cooper, Blayne [Cooper, Blayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 2015-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

The next day dawned sunny and temperate with a promise of hitting sixty-six degrees by midafternoon. That was the good news. The bad news was that finding Billy Hobson had taken longer than either woman expected. Google, at least in this instance, wasn’t the messiah that Adele had proclaimed.

It was nearly lunchtime when Natalie found a cousin of Billy’s who lived in Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans.

Adele made a quick phone call and provided the white lie—she was a dear friend of Billy’s from the NOPD who was trying to reach him—and the cousin turned over all of Billy’s address information without asking a single question. As it turned out, Billy now lived in Shreveport, which was nearly a five-hour drive.

Adele powered down her laptop and unplugged it from the outlet near the kitchen stovetop. She set it on the countertop. “I forgot how much I hate doing computer work. That was horrible!”

Natalie crossed her arms over her chest and glared disbelievingly. “I searched all morning. You helped for the last ten minutes.”

Adele’s voice was unnaturally cheerful. “But I picked out the new fixtures for the bathrooms and made sandwiches!” She passed a plate holding a sandwich and a handful of potato chips to Natalie, who rolled her eyes then stood with a groan, stretching shoulders that had been hunched over for too long.

Georgia stormed into the room looking murderous. “That incompetent, stupid, stupid man!” She threw a notepad and pen down onto the kitchen island.

“Landry’s here?” Adele looked behind Georgia as though she expected him to enter the room any second.

“No. Ross.”

Adele made a face and sliced her sandwich in half. “What about him? If he tried to pinch your butt again, you have no one to blame but yourself.”

Looking anxious, Georgia said, “There’s a problem with the paint on the back of the house.”

Adele shrugged. “Ask him to correct it. He’s had workmen crawling everywhere all day so it shouldn’t take long. You’re the one who wanted to use him because he’s cheap.” She waggled half a sandwich at Georgia, and a piece of lettuce fell out, causing the older woman to narrow her eyes at the messy gesture. “You get what you pay for,” Adele continued, “and we are paying for a decrepit old pervert and his merry men.”

Georgia leaned against the kitchen island and crossed her thin legs at the ankles. Today she was wearing the exact same dress as before, in yet another color. Gold.

This one was Natalie’s favorite, by far, because it contrasted so wonderfully with Georgia’s dark skin and made the older woman look exotic.

“Ella, that man only goes to his favorite store to buy paint.”

“So?” Adele muttered as she popped a chip into her mouth. She held the open bag out invitingly to Georgia, who shook her head.

“That store doesn’t carry the brand of paint we selected,” Georgia continued, picking at her fingernails.

Adele took a bite of sandwich. “So he went to another store, right?”

“No. Ross decided to go with another brand of paint and another color.

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