Blame the Car Ride by Marie F. Martin

Author:Marie F. Martin [Martin, Marie F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-05T22:00:00+00:00

Detective Bruce Langnecker walked up the hallway to meet Dean Hyatt at the sign-in window of the Justice Center. He reached out to shake Dean’s hand. Their strong hands joined for the shake, and frank brown eyes met serious hazel in this meeting of the hunk rancher and the intimidating law enforcement officer.

I wanted to sit in on this interview, even though I wasn’t sure what more to tell the detective except that Edgy’s murder needed to be avenged by locking the killer away. We followed him into the small room.

Langnecker focused on me. “Tell me what this is about.”

“I’m not sure where to begin. The Blue Moon is where I first met Dean. He helped Edgy when she was hit by the pool ball. He also rescued us at the big church on the hill.”

Dean took over and told the detective about our visit in my rose garden where he had explained about his niece and the search for her birth mother. He ended by saying, “I went to Millie’s with the sole purpose of talking with Ruth’s mother. I didn’t want my niece mixed up with a drugged-out crazy woman. We knew from the court records she’d been in an institution for the mentally ill.”

Detective Langnecker peered over at me. “You helped set up this meeting without your friend’s knowledge?”

I squirmed under his look. “I did. Edgy never knew what happened to her baby, and it haunted her for years. I couldn’t let this chance slip away.” I had to answer. My vow had been broken again. My heart hurt.

“Mr. Hyatt, tell me exactly what you saw in the parking lot. No detail is too small.”

Dean sat quietly for a moment, settling in to tell a story, one that had a terrible ending, one that would haunt my dreams forever.

“It was around eight in the evening when I arrived at Millie’s. I wasn’t quite sure how to handle the meeting. Should I go inside or wait until they came out? Finally decided it didn’t matter if I made a stir, I needed to get it over with. Just as I was crossing the parking lot to go inside, Edgy shoved out the door and started pacing around, looking here and there like she was searching for someone. I was about to get her attention when she hurried around the corner of the building. Keeping out of sight, I followed her. She crossed the back-parking lot to a red Corvette sitting along the fence by a gate.”

He hadn’t told me that.

Dean continued, “The window rolled down and a guy handed her what appeared to be a small plastic baggy. She clutched it tight and stepped away from the car, shaking her head. The guy got out, and they argued. She ran from him and disappeared around the corner of the building. At that point, I decided I didn’t want my niece mixed up with what appeared to be a woman buying drugs and apparently not paying.”

I broke in, “Edgy would pay any debt she owed.

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