Death of an Irish Mummy by Catie Murphy

Author:Catie Murphy [Murphy, Catie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2021-03-22T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

Her phone buzzed with a message as she reached the car, and she paused to towel the dogs off and get them into their carrier before checking it. Just a note from Paul saying he’d keep an eye out for the diary, and had she learned anything interesting herself. Megan, reluctantly eyeing the walk up to the graveyard, tried to think whether they’d learned anything interesting enough in the house to mention having done a little breaking and entering. She could hear the sisters and their incidental escorts coming back toward her, and decided to spare herself the walk to the graveyard.

“It’s a mess,” Jessie announced as soon as she was within Megan’s earshot. “I don’t know how you’d even know where was safe to dig. You might end up putting Mama in on top of somebody else.”

“Jessie,” Raquel said in despair, but Sondra, walking awkwardly across the gravel in her tall heels, shook her head.

“Jessie’s right, Raq, and you know it. Even if we convinced them we’re family, the work that would have to be done just to clean that space up enough to bury someone in it wouldn’t be worth it. And we have a plot at home where everybody is buried together, even Geepaw Patrick. I think Mom would rather be there than in some half-rotten churchyard in Ireland.”

“You’d rather be there,” Raquel snapped. “Mama had a more romantic soul than you do.”

Sondra’s nostrils flared and Megan saw the young men exchange wary glances. Apparently forty minutes alone with the Williams sisters had made allies of them, which—honestly—Megan sympathized with. She wanted to imagine their strife came from shock and heartbreak, but she kind of doubted it.

Jessie said, “I am so tired,” with a note that belayed Megan’s instant suspicion that she was just trying to head off another spat between her sisters. “Was it actually only this morning that we got in? Has Mama really only been dead for a day? How is this even happening? I want—” Her voice wobbled. “I want to go home. I want this to not be happening.”

Reed tried to step in and offer comfort, but Sondra got there first, enveloping Jessie in a weary hug. Raquel came to join them, and they all sort of crawled into the car without letting go of one another, like an amoeba of Williamses. Megan closed the door behind them, found the two young men looking to her for guidance, and shrugged. Even she felt it had been a terribly long day, and she didn’t have the weight of grief and jet lag pulling her even farther down. She got in the Bentley herself, waved to Reed and Flynn, and left them to figure out their own ways home as she drove the Williamses back to Dublin.

Rain started falling at the Leitrim border, and once the tears had subsided, Megan’s only companions in the drive back were the hiss of tires on the wet roads and the occasional soft snore from the back seat.

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