Blood Moon by Catherine Lundoff

Author:Catherine Lundoff [Lundoff, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-73436-030-1
Publisher: Queen of Swords Press

Chapter Nineteen

Becca stared bleakly at the rest home from her car window. She suspected that she knew why Shelly had sent her here instead of letting her stay with Erin. She hadn’t thought her doubts and fears had been that obvious, but clearly Shelly had seen something. Or maybe she thought that Lizzie and the other deputies were watching her and the house. Or maybe Shelly wasn’t sure about what Erin had been up to, either. The possibilities were endless.

As if on queue, a Sheriff’s Department car drove by on the next street, a deputy that she didn’t recognize behind the wheel. So Shelly probably had an excellent point, regardless of her motivation. True, he didn’t glance toward her parked car, but that could just mean that they had orders not to make it too obvious. That’s how they would be playing it if this were a TV show. Lizzie would think of that if Henderson didn’t. Becca grimaced at her reflection in the window. Life had all been so much simpler a week ago.

Some of the women from Circle House started gathering in the side garden, and she recognized Sharon at the same time that the older woman spotted her and waved. No putting this off any longer then. Becca got out of the car and walked up the side path. But before she could walk over to the group, Sharon jerked her head toward the front of the building. Becca scowled in puzzlement, but directed her steps back toward the front door as if it was what she intended all along.

Lizzie Blackhawk swung the door open as she got there. “Miz Thornton.” She nodded stiffly, as if Becca was a near stranger who she’d seen around town a few times, then stepped outside, letting the door close behind her. She stood on the step next to Becca, eyeing her over her mirrored shades. “Got any news for me?”

Becca ran through a quick list of responses in her head, dismissing the more confrontational ones. “Looks like Annie’s back,” she volunteered, settling on the thing that Shelly had almost certainly told her cousin. “And can we just switch to you calling me Becca? You know I didn’t kill Leroy and I’m not hiding Erin.” Much. She made herself smile as she swallowed that particular lie. Fib, not an out-and-out lie. After all, she wasn’t sure where Erin was right now.

Lizzie narrowed her eyes like she could read Becca’s mind. “Well now, that would mean telling me about the burglary at your place and whatever else has been going on, now wouldn’t it? George Sanchez says that you chased off a burglar, but that information somehow failed to get reported. This isn’t a game for me, you know. I’ve got a murder victim, a missing suspect, a jail with compromised security and now, a burglary. Did they take anything?”

Becca hung her head and scuffed the edge of her shoe against the step. Stop acting like a teenager, her inner adult demanded. “Just some old clothes, I think.

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