Blood in the Wings by J. L. O'Rourke

Author:J. L. O'Rourke [O'Rourke, J. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: new zealand, murder, mystery, Romance, vampires, Teenage
Publisher: Millwheel Press
Published: 2015-05-26T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

“It’s not a lot of help,” Severn said as I spread the paper out on the table. Mind you, I could have replied that he wasn’t a lot of help at that moment either as his body, closely held against mine, was definitely drawing my attention away from the note. I tried to ignore the soft breath on my ear as I replied, as businesslike as possible.

“It proves she went there to meet someone.”

“True, but it doesn’t tell us who.”

“That would be too easy, but my bet is on Jason Broderick.”

“Why?”

“She wasn’t wearing any knickers. She didn’t go there to meet her grandmother.”

Severn sniggered.

“No knickers means it was a man,” I continued. “It also had to be someone she couldn’t meet at any normal place or time, so that rules out the local guys.”

“Unless he was married,” Severn interjected.

I shook my head. “Still rules out the locals. All the married ones are about a hundred and fifty years old.”

“Gosh!” Severn replied with mock horror. “Even older than me.”

“Yeah, but they look it,” I giggled. “Any way, you know what I mean. The only possible suspects are young (at least young-looking) and foreign. That narrows it down to you lot – Seth, Aiden, Reverend, yourself – and Jason Broderick. Off the top of my head I can rule out the Reverend – he’s too short for Tasha’s taste, and Aiden – because Tasha hadn’t even noticed him or she would have said something. We know she fancied you but I’m going to rule you out even though you are currently the police’s prime suspect, just because you said you didn’t do it, you haven’t axe-murdered me yet, and it is quite shocking enough that I’ve slept with a vampire, I don’t want to think I slept with a killer as well.”

“That leaves Seth and Jason.” Severn had kept up.

“What about Seth? Do you fancy him as the killer”

“As A killer, yes. As THE killer, no. Not if it was Tuesday night. He has an alibi. We were all together. All night.”

“So, like I said, we’re left with Jason. Elementary, as Sherlock Holmes would say.”

Severn unwrapped himself from around me and sat down, peering at the note but carefully avoiding touching it. “Backstage, midnight,” he read aloud.

I leaned on the back of his chair and picked the note up, turning it over on my hand to read the printing on the back.

“It’s a piece off a rehearsal schedule, so it’s definitely someone in the cast,” I exclaimed. What I didn’t add was that there was something familiar about the two words that I couldn’t quite place.

“How do we prove it?” Severn pondered.

We sat, silently thinking.

“I guess I should give the note to the police,” I said finally.

“With your fingerprints all over it!” Severn’s tone was icy. “Good idea.”

“Oops!” I felt suitably chastened for not thinking about that.

“Anyway,” he continued, still dripping sarcasm, “How did you plan to explain how you got it? How did you get it?” he finished, his tone changing icy to intrigued.

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