Fate Interrupted: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel (Moonstone Cove Book 3) by Elizabeth Hunter

Author:Elizabeth Hunter [Hunter, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781941674659
Publisher: Recurve Press, LLC
Published: 2021-06-07T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

The next day, Megan drove back to Katherine’s house on the beach to meet Val and her boyfriend Sully. The giant truck roaring up North Beach Street in the middle of the afternoon was better than an alarm clock. Katherine and Baxter were still at work, but Megan waved at the truck and pointed toward the small driveway behind Katherine’s cedar-clad house.

“Hey!” She walked to Val’s side when the vehicle parked. “You made good time!”

“Sully got a few days off work.” Val shot her burly man a look. “Which was way overdue. My kid is getting ready for midterms and can stay with Robin and Mark for a few days—he likes them better anyway.” Val opened the door and jumped down from the lifted pickup truck. “So we decided to come down and help with your mystery this week.” She clapped her hands together. “Fresh fucking air. Thank God.”

A giant man walked toward the front of the truck, his hands stuffed in his pockets.

“You must be Sully.” Megan walked over and held out her hand. “It’s very nice to meet you. I’m Megan, and I’ve heard nothing but good things.”

“You must have been talking to Robin and Monica then.” The man was the size of a brown bear and had a beard to match. His voice, his manner, it was all gruff. Megan loved it.

“You look like a lumberjack.”

Val cackled, and Sully got red in the cheeks. “I’ve worked in timber. It’s not… We don’t use the word lumberjack anymore. I’m the sheriff up in Glimmer Lake now.”

“Oh, I’ll have to introduce you to our friend, Drew Bisset. He’s the local detective in Moonstone Cove.”

“There’s just the one?”

Megan shrugged. “You have much call for a full-time detective in Glimmer Lake?”

Sully glanced at Val. “With this girl and her friends around? Not much.”

Megan ushered them up to the wraparound deck and the table at the far end that overlooked the ocean. Once they were sitting, she felt herself relax.

“I’m so glad you’re here.”

Val closed her eyes and let her face relax in the breeze coming off the sea. She was a thin, dark-haired woman with half her head shaved up the side, numerous tattoos, and a keen, penetrating gaze. She wore black gloves that came up past her elbows along with black cowboy boots and a black denim jacket.

And Sully really did look like a lumberjack. He was burly and tall, had a bit of a belly and a scruffy beard, but he was handsome in a rough, square-jawed way. His sandy-blond hair was grey at the temples, and his beard was sprinkled with silver.

“So let me get this straight,” Sully said. “You’re investigating a robbery, but all that was stolen were grapevines?”

“Well, yes.” If you didn’t know the backstory, it all seemed a bit silly. “These were experimental grapevines. Clones from a specific vine in Northern California that were grafted onto local rootstock. My client is trying to revive a rare variety of wine grape and grow it commercially here in Moonstone Cove.

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