Adverse Possession (Savannah Martin Mysteries Book 11) by Jenna Bennett

Author:Jenna Bennett [Bennett, Jenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw
Publisher: Magpie Ink
Published: 2015-12-15T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

“What did you think?” I asked Rafe when we were in the car and headed up Hillsboro Road toward downtown.

He glanced at me. “About?”

“Any of it. Kylie. Lauren. The fact that Aislynn isn’t here.”

“The fact that your friend kept saying her name?”

“She was just wondering if Aislynn was OK,” I said. “Wasn’t she?”

Rafe shrugged.

“You don’t think Lauren was right, do you? That Aislynn wrote the letters, and when Kylie figured it out, she tried to kill her?”

“Dunno,” Rafe said. “You’re the one who knows them. You’d know that better than me.”

I should. But he’s got that criminal mind, always suspicious of other people’s motivations, while I tend to take things at face value. I rarely look for hidden agendas, and Rafe always does.

“Would they have called me to talk about the anonymous letters if Aislynn was the one who wrote them?”

“You told me,” Rafe said as he made the turn onto Division Street, “that Kylie was the one who wanted to contact you, and that Aislynn didn’t want her to.”

Yes, Kylie had said that.

“I’m confused,” I said. “Why would Aislynn write threatening letters to herself?”

“It happens. Kids do it sometimes to get attention. Or write love letters to themselves so the other kids will think someone’s interested in them.”

“She’s not a kid,” I said.

“Young, though. And Lauren said she’s immature.”

“I think that might be because Lauren is older than Kylie,” I said, “and she probably felt threatened by Aislynn.”

Rafe thought about that for a moment as we made our way past the Music City Center—the new convention center downtown—toward the bridge linking East Nashville to the SoBro area. “Could be she was worried that her girlfriend’s feelings had changed. She mighta started writing the letters just so Kylie would pay her more attention.”

“Possible,” I allowed. “I know she was worried about that. Lauren thinks Aislynn is immature and that Kylie needs someone older. And Aislynn thinks the same thing. That Kylie thinks she’s immature and wishes Aislynn was older. More like Lauren.”

“Tangled web,” Rafe said.

I nodded. “Confusing. And I don’t see where Virgil’s murder comes into it at all.”

“Maybe it don’t,” Rafe said, as we headed up and over the bridge. To the left was the downtown skyline and to the right the old Metro General Hospital, perched on a cliff overlooking the Cumberland River; now the site of a couple of new condo buildings. “Maybe they’re two different things.”

That made a lot more sense. Although at the same time, it didn’t. “Isn’t that too much of a coincidence?”

“Dunno,” Rafe said, cresting the bridge and heading down the other side, toward Nissan Stadium, where the Tennessee Titans play. Thank God it wasn’t football season yet. Sunday mornings in East Nashville during football season are gridlocked.

We crossed the interstate and headed up Shelby Avenue.

“Where are we going?” I inquired, when he didn’t signal to make the turn on South Fifth.

“I thought we’d take a walk in the park.”

“You mean you want to look at the crime scene?”

He shrugged. “I thought maybe you did.

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