Everything We Keep: A Novel by Kerry Lonsdale

Author:Kerry Lonsdale [Lonsdale, Kerry]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781503935310
Published: 2016-07-31T22:00:00+00:00

Kristen and Nick Garner lived in Saratoga, a ten-minute drive from my house. Dressed in terry shorts and a Hello Kitty shirt, Kristen answered the door. Her ponytail bounced high on her head as she led me through the house. “Nick’s in the kitchen. Do you mind that I asked him to join us?”

I shook my head. “He knows Thomas better than either of us.”

“That’s what I figured. Aimee”—she stopped in the hallway and faced me—“I have my doubts. Everything you told me on the phone seems so . . .”

“Crazy, I know.” I adjusted my purse strap. My fingers were shaking. “But I have to find out what’s going on.”

She rested her hand on my upper arm. “Is this why you haven’t dated since James, um . . . disappeared?”

“It’s always been in the back of my mind.”

She gave me an abbreviated nod. “Let’s see what Nick has to say.”

Nick was standing at the butcher-block island pouring a brown ale into a frosted glass. He wore a T-shirt and workout shorts, and his hair was damp. Nick played soccer in the city’s recreational department adult league. He looked as if he’d recently returned from a game.

He offered me a beer and I declined. “Congratulations on the opening today,” he said.

“Thanks. What did you order?”

“The Mediterranean omelet.” He patted his stomach. “My new favorite.”

I grinned. Overflowing with goat cheese, brine-cured olives, and fresh fennel and dill, the omelet had been a popular selection. “I expect to see you back.”

“Without a doubt.” He drank his beer, then rubbed his hands together. “So, what have you got?”

I retrieved the gallery postcard and business card from my purse and aligned them on the island. “Lacy slipped the hotel’s card in my wallet.”

Nick arched a brow.

“Long story,” I said and pointed at the gallery postcard. “She had my waitress Emily give this one to me.”

Nick’s head snapped up. “She was there this morning?”

“Apparently so.”

“Aimee says I took a picture of her,” Kristen explained.

Nick straightened, inching closer to his wife. “Did she say anything to you?”

She shook her head. “There were a lot of people there. I’ve never met her so I don’t know who she was.”

“I’ll show you what she looks like.” I launched my phone and scrolled through the camera roll to Lacy’s photo.

“I remember her,” Kristen said. “I think I spooked her when I took the picture. She bailed right after.”

“Her name is Lacy Saunders, and I think she left because she saw Thomas. She’s a psychic profiler specializing in unsolved mysteries and missing persons,” I explained for Nick’s benefit.

Nick studied the picture. “Kristen mentioned you first met this woman at James’s funeral.”

“I wouldn’t exactly put it that way,” I admitted.

“Lacy chased her down in the church parking lot,” Kristen clarified. “She told Aimee that James was alive. Nadia thought she was a con artist, and I have to agree with her.”

“I did, too, until I realized most of James’s paintings were missing, and then I received this.” I tapped the painting on the postcard.

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