Erin Solomon Mysteries, Books 1 - 5 by Jen Blood

Author:Jen Blood [Blood, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Maine Mystery
Publisher: Adian Press
Published: 2015-11-30T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One - Diggs

9:45:00

I was sure I wouldn’t sleep after Solomon left. I was wrong. I woke at quarter past two from a light coma, sore and still tired. My file on Mitch Cameron was still on the bed. I thought of Solomon again. There were things I could have said to her, pushing the issue of the two of us a little further: I’d changed. She’d changed. It was written in the stars. Maybe I was full of shit, but I actually believed some of that. But at the end of the day, it didn’t change the fact that Jack Juarez was waiting for her—a good guy who would give her everything she deserved: less scars, less turmoil, less heartache.

Assuming we all survived, I should just go back to Costa Rica when this was all over. Surf and write and, maybe, meet someone else.

Put all this shit behind me.

I opened the file on Cameron and stared at his beady eyes. He was proof positive that Solomon truly had turned over a new leaf. Not once in the past few days had she asked to see the folder.

I was more disappointed by that than I cared to admit—it didn’t say good things about me. I should be happy for her and her new life. A new life in which she was no longer a woman hell-bent on getting answers. Instead, she was some stranger who patched people up and listened to everything her boyfriend said. I thought of Juarez’s words on the subject: If you think anything just slid off Erin after last summer, you don’t know her as well as I thought.

I knew that—I did. I was beside her while Rainier tracked us like dogs, after all. I watched while he whispered God only knew what in her ear, touched her in ways he had no right, that belt looped around her neck the whole time. If Cameron hadn’t killed the son of a bitch, I think I would have done the job with my bare hands once I’d gotten free.

Solomon and I had both known for a long time that the world is a scary place, but I don’t think either of us ever had a clue just how dark it got until Black Falls.

Maybe it really was for the best that she was moving on from all that.

And maybe if I told myself that story enough times, I’d start to believe it.

I went into the bathroom and set my shiny new gun and my virtually useless cell phone on the counter, then turned on the shower. The water was cool, but I’d had worse. I stripped down and stood under the spray, letting the cold wash over me.

I thought of Solomon kneeling over the little boy who’d almost died today. That thought led me to Jessie Barnel’s terror-filled eyes as she wielded a shotgun and defended a grandfather whom, I suspected, she didn’t even like. Why? And what the hell was Barnel’s endgame in this? What did

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