Drag Queen in the Court of Death by Caro Soles

Author:Caro Soles [Soles, Caro]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Fiction, Gay, Suspense, General, Mystery & Detective
ISBN: 9781608200115
Google: KIwI1R0aY6cC
Amazon: 1608200116
Publisher: MLR Press
Published: 2009-06-21T12:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen I woke up with a hangover at three thirteen. Ryan was fast asleep, snoring gently, his face buried in the crook of his arm, one leg outside the sheet. I got up cautiously and crept downstairs. I took some Tylenol and got a drink of ginger ale from the fridge. I was wide awake now. I could smell Ryan on my skin, on my hands. I got Ronnie's shoe box of letters off the shelf and sat down in the solarium to sort through them. This was a task I had been putting off, but thanks to Ryan, I was ready to think about Ronnie again, and more clearly than I had been doing lately.

There were six letters to his parents in the box. None was addressed to Albany. All had been sent back, unopened, with return to sender scrawled on them in the same tight, slanted handwriting. If his parents hadn't been paying his bills at school as he had told me, who had? Uncle Bunny? Or was there a glimmer of truth in Al's malicious allegation? I'd never heard of the place in the address, but it was in New York State. Why had he lied? The other packet of letters was from his sister, from a different address in the same town. I wondered if she was still there. Julie would know how to find out. So would my librarian friend on the Gay Blade. I went to my computer and logged on to the BBS. There were quite a few people online, even at this hour. No matter when I logged on, there was always someone there, reading files, chatting, sending e-mail. I sent a long detailed message to WondRBoy, asking him to find the Lipinskys for me, asking him to keep this private, and logged off. I knew there would be an answer for me by noon. He was always fast and very reliable. Debra Lipinsky could be married and divorced several times over by now, which was why I suggested he look for the parents. They were more liable to stay put.

I pulled out the letterhead I had done up for

correspondence about Ronnie's estate and wrote them a letter, stating that their son had died and I needed to discuss some things with them. I had been a friend of Ronnie's. I would like to come down there, if I could. It struck me as an odd sort of letter, but I didn't care. The pile of money in my safety deposit box was haunting me. I wanted it to go where it should go, but how? I needed family help to track down Uncle Bunny. As soon as I got the address, I would send it.

I pulled on some shorts and a sweatshirt and ambled down the street. I was more relaxed than I had been for some time. Sex does that, I reminded myself, with a smile. What to do with Ryan now, I wouldn't think about. Just let things take their course, for once.

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