Even Better in Real Life by Debra Kayn

Author:Debra Kayn [Kayn, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Debra Kayn
Published: 2022-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Maggie walked around her car, shaking her head. Lash studied the shadows under the viaduct. They'd only left the car there for a couple of hours. Someone had to have seen or heard something.

Glass littered the hood of the car. The windshield was broken. Dents covered the roof. The rear brake light was busted.

Someone had taken a bat to Maggie's car.

"You'll need to call the insurance company in the morning." Dawn stood behind Maggie.

Maggie hugged her middle. "It won't do any good. I only had liability on the car. It's not worth having full coverage on it."

"Oh..." Dawn stuck out her lower lip. "Well, maybe the security cameras at Country Mart were able to record who vandalized the car."

"The cameras only cover the parking lot in front of the store." Maggie peered up under the cement highway system above her head. "Unless Federal has cameras—"

"They don't." Lash took out his phone and walked away from the girls.

Putting a call into Meese, he relayed the information on what had happened tonight. Moroad would put a few riders around town, looking for anything suspicious. While the crime seemed centered on Maggie, he knew differently. He was involved, and whoever had done the damage had meant it for him.

It wasn't enough that he'd got shot.

"What did Sheriff Kaddock say when you called him?" He glanced at the girls, making sure they couldn't overhear his conversation.

He'd called Meese and made sure when Maggie called the sheriff's department that the sheriff handled the call himself. As it was, all he could do was delay the inevitable. The sheriff was coming to take a report. He needed to make sure that report wasn't filed.

Moroad would handle the crime in their own way, on their own time.

"He wasn't happy, but he's onboard," said Meese.

"Good." Catching flashing lights in his peripheral vision, he disconnected the call.

Maggie walked over to him. He put his arm around her. She trembled. Whether from the chill in the air or the shock of the crime, he couldn't tell.

When she got the phone call from her coworker, he'd witnessed the many emotions she'd gone through. To his surprise, her main concern wasn't for her car. She feared Dawn was in danger because she was alone under the viaduct.

Maggie forgot about her fear of being on the motorcycle as she asked him to hurry through town so she could check on her friend.

"I didn't say anything, but do you think it's safe for Dawn to go home alone?" She leaned closer. "Do you think whoever did this will follow her home?"

"I'm sure she'll be fine." He could see her hesitation and worry. "I'll call one of the Moroad members and have him escort her—"

"Oh, God, that would freak her out more."

"I'll have him trail her at a distance. She won't even know he's following." He eyed the sheriff parking on the other side of Maggie's car. "Go delay her for a few minutes until I make a phone call."

Maggie hurried over to her friend and met Sheriff Kaddock.

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