Brigitte's Cross (The Olivia Chronicles) by Angelic Rodgers

Author:Angelic Rodgers [Rodgers, Angelic]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-06-09T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

Ai ran two tours a day on Saturdays and Sundays; with school starting back up, she’d cut the weekday tours. The weekends were more lucrative anyway, and she needed her study time during the week.

Liz decided to join her for the early tour on Saturday; she was afraid that if she put it off until the afternoon that she would chicken out. Mike agreed to go with her, and Kirby was working at the bar. Saturday mornings were always pretty slow, and Kirby enjoyed drinking coffee and doing crosswords with the jukebox blaring.

The tour started at 10:00 am and everyone was instructed to meet at Washington Square Park. Liz and Mike stopped and got coffees to go at Rose Nicaud on the way to the park. Ai assured Liz that she would be discreet and not identify her or act as if she knew her. She had made sure to provide Liz with two tickets ahead of time so that there wouldn’t have to be an exchange of money when the tour started. By the time they got to the park, Ai was already talking to other clients, asking them where they were from, and if they were in New Orleans for business or pleasure, as well as asking them if they needed any recommendations of things to do other than her tour.

Once the group gathered together, Ai looked at her watch and announced it was time to get started.

“Just follow me, folks. Our first stop is a local house in Faubourg Marigny. “Faubourg simply means ‘neighborhood’ or ‘suburb.’ This area was, as you might guess, established by a man named Marigny; Bernard Marigny was a Creole developer with a gambling problem. The part of the Marigny nearer the river is the older section, which was originally part of the family plantation. The upper section is known as the New Marigny and is where many Creole gentlemen provided cottages for their mulatto mistresses. I’m sure most of you know that the Marigny was recently the site of one of the strangest and most violent crimes in the city; that’s where we’ll go first.”

Liz winced. Ai certainly didn’t hesitate on trotting it right out there. She and Mike hung back toward the end of the group. Mike grabbed Liz’s hand, and they looked like a happy couple as they strolled down the street.

Ai was chattering about options in the Marigny for the tourists to check out later, promising to point out the best places along Frenchmen street as they came back toward the Quarter. When she got to Liz’s house, she stopped on the sidewalk outside and waited for everyone to form a little semicircle in front of her.

“Just a few months ago, the murder of Alexandria James happened here. Wren Anderson, Alexandria’s former lover, apparently was having delusions that she was a vampire. In her frenzied state, she attacked Alexandria and slit her throat, draining her of most of her blood. When Alexandria’s partner found them, Ms. James was already dead and Ms.

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