Dadgummit by Maggie Toussaint

Author:Maggie Toussaint [Toussaint, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths FIC027270
ISBN: 9781603815932
Publisher: Camel Press
Published: 2017-08-01T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Three

“Maybe he can fill in temporarily until relief arrives.” Mayes turned to me in the parking lot after he relayed the information to Deputy Pruitt. “One thing’s for certain. We were stretched to capacity with two murders. Dealing with a mass grave site will exhaust our resources, even if the same guy is responsible. I’ll have to call in the GBI.”

I didn’t want additional exposure of my abilities, especially to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, but even I could do the math. A small police force was no match for the horror happening here. We’d had Jonas in custody, and yet he’d put the sheriff out of commission and escaped.

“Do what you have to,” I conceded. “Just don’t let the big guns keep us from our appointment with the Little People at dusk or let the GBI sink their teeth into me. We have to get our people back.”

“Trust me, I want them back as much as you do. Call your father while I begin notifying the outside authorities. Tell your dad we’ll meet him at the site. I’ll text him the GPS coordinates of Meese Park.”

“Uh, my dad’s not that high tech. He’ll need the roads-and-turns kind of directions.”

Mayes looked up from his phone. “What? Oh. Okay. Give me a sec.”

While he was busy on his calls, I contacted my father and brought him up to speed. He agreed to drive back early from Luanne’s farm. Even better, Luanne knew where Meese Park was.

“Lacey and Larissa will drop me off at the site,” Dad said. “If I can catch a ride home with you and Mayes, that’d be great.”

“Sure.” Too late I remembered about the dusk meeting with the Little People. Oh well, we’d cross that bridge when we came to it.

“Any word on Charlotte and her hot date?” my father asked.

“Charlotte? Yes, Charlotte.” I grimaced. “Haven’t heard a peep out of her. She’s probably having the time of her life.”

I squeezed my eyes shut at the realization I’d skirted the truth with my dad. It felt wrong for him to be left out of the knowledge loop. But I couldn’t burden him with this, not when he had a mass gravesite in his immediate future. “How’s Larissa doing?”

“Happy as June bug. She did a bit of everything at the farm today, even drove the tractor.”

“I feel bad that I didn’t get to take her paddleboarding yet.”

“Don’t fret. We still have time to do that, and she hasn’t mentioned it again.”

I nodded, then realized he couldn’t see me. “Thanks for that, Dad. See you soon.”

Talking with my father helped ease the chill in my bones. This day kept going downhill. So many things had happened that it was hard to take it all in.

How could Jonas be stopped? How many would die or be sidelined because of him? How many lives had he already taken? The vision I’d had from the broken branch on the trail replayed in my head. Jonas believed he was helping these people, that they wanted him to take their energy.

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