Dust to Dust by Audrey Keown

Author:Audrey Keown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CROOKED LANE BOOKS

XIII

Second Fig

I had a restless night’s sleep with the throbbing pain in my foot, all too familiar after what I’d done to my arm. I woke repeatedly from nightmares that my feet were being crushed by an elevator with prehistoric-looking teeth lining its sliding doors.

But unlike the burn on my arm, this injury had been acquired while I was up to something good. Clearly, I was maturing by the hour.

In the morning, I sat with my plants on the balcony of our apartment and drank black tea to try to get going. I thought of Mr. Fig. What was his usual morning beverage? And what were they giving him in jail? Water? Anything?

I wished I could smuggle in something good for him.

Knowing how the murderer had accessed the Achilles surely narrowed down my list of suspects. At five feet five inches, I had fit fine into the dumbwaiter, but some on my list would not. Tom was too tall and wide, and Clyde was really pushing it. But I could see him cramming in, if he was flexible. Selena would definitely make the cut.

Then again, there was the possibility that Tom and Autumn were in it together, or that Clyde and Autumn were. I hated to think anyone would do in their own sister. It was easier to believe that of a romantic partner, although I didn’t like admitting that either.

I rubbed the back of my neck and drained my teacup.

I decided to visit Selena Borough. As hotheaded as she was, she might want to dish about her dad. And if I could figure out what she’d taken from the conservatory, that’d be a win too.

Unfortunately, it was Sunday, and students at a Christian school like Covenant would be at chapel at this hour.

A burning dread gnawed at my insides. There was someone else I needed to question who would find himself with nothing in particular to do this morning.

Two parts of me warred against each other. I had to talk to Mr. Fig again in order to get him out of jail. But talking to him required going back there, and seeing him in that place again was the last thing I wanted to do.

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