Deadly Ever After by Eva Gates

Author:Eva Gates
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CROOKED LANE BOOKS

Chapter Fourteen

I drove back to the lighthouse to take Fluffy for the promised walk. I’d seen no signs of a weak bladder last night. I didn’t know if that was true or if Evangeline was trying to mess with my head. Which would be exactly like her.

Traffic was heavy going out of town as people headed for the beaches of the National Seashore or the towns of Rodanthe and Buxton. I tapped the steering wheel impatiently and thought about all the people swirling around this case. Leon Lions was a strange one. Around Evangeline he acted like the school nerd in the presence of the head cheerleader. He basked in her presence as if he were a sun worshiper at the beach.

Had they once had a relationship? If not, it wasn’t because he didn’t want to.

Was it possible Evangeline’s visit to Nags Head had not been entirely to stop my engagement to Connor? Had she had another reason for coming? Such as to see an old lover?

Maybe even a current lover?

Probably not. If Leon was her lover, past or present, she had more common sense than to bring him out in public in the days immediately following the mysterious death of her husband.

I came to an impatient halt, watching a long line of rear lights glowing red ahead of me. I briefly considered telling Sam Watson about Leon but decided not to. What could I say—that Evangeline had run into an old friend and they’d had lunch together?

Which brought me to thinking about her and James Dalrymple. Again, what on earth could I say to Watson? That Evangeline had appeared to recognize a man, but he didn’t react to her, and then she denied knowing him?

Hardly grounds for an arrest. If my report did lead to an arrest, it would be of me for wasting police time.

At last the traffic broke through whatever the holdup was, and I sped out of town on Highway 12.

A substantial number of cars were parked outside the library when I arrived, and more followed me down the long driveway between the tall red pines. Schools were on break, and Ronald had a full schedule of children’s activities planned. I noticed that many of the kids, as well as their parents, were wearing high boots.

“What’s on the program for today?” I asked Janelle Washington as we walked up the path to the library together. Her twins, Charlotte and Emily, had run on ahead, hair ribbons flying, rubber boots slapping the ground, squealing with excitement.

“Ronald’s invited an expert in marsh wildlife to lead an expedition. The girls are so excited; they’ve been looking forward to it all week.”

I eyed her long-sleeved shirt, the heavy khaki pants tucked into pink-and-purple rubber boots. “You’re going too?”

“Oh yes. The marsh isn’t usually a place you’d find a girl from Manhattan wandering around in, but Ronald needs parent volunteers to keep an eye on the kids. I can only hope we don’t come across anything that doesn’t have legs.” She shuddered.

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