Final Chapter: A Megan Montaigne Mystery (Megan Montaigne Mysteries) by Pam Stucky

Author:Pam Stucky [Stucky, Pam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: traditional mystery
Publisher: Wishing Rock Press
Published: 2018-02-22T22:00:00+00:00

TEN

Megan had intended to stop at the grocery store on her way home; the store in Concrete had greater variety than the much smaller one in Emerson Falls. But she and Gus ended up talking quite a while longer, and by the time they parted ways she was just barely able to walk in the library doors before it opened for the day at noon. She gave a nod to her co-workers, who had been bearing the brunt of her mental and physical absence the last few days, put her coat on the back of her chair, and started work.

By the time five o’clock came around, she was starving. “Rae’s it is, then,” she said to her computer as she turned it off. Grabbing her coat, she raced through the rain to her car and drove over.

“Megan!” a voice called out as she walked through the door at the warm and familiar pub. A burst of joy came over Megan as she realized how much she was grateful for this local gathering spot. Several people she knew were already present, and Megan looked over their plates to see what Rae was offering up for the night. “Looks like sloppy joes?” she said to Max, who was the one who had called her name. She put her wet coat on the back of a chair at the bar, pulled out another, and sat.

“Rae’s secret sauce,” he said with a smile, tapping the meal on his plate with his fork. The meat spilled generously over the bun; there was no hope of eating Rae’s sloppy joes like sandwiches. Megan swiped a french fry from Max’s plate and dipped it in the thick gravy.

Rae came out of the kitchen carrying plates of sloppy joes for three other customers. She spotted Megan, and with their eyes and nods Rae and Megan exchanged the message that Megan would have what they were having.

“Max,” Megan said, absconding with another fry. “So, I saw Gus today.”

Max raised his eyebrows as high as they would go. “You did what?”

“I wasn’t in any danger,” Megan protested, choosing to ignore the fact that at one point she’d been worried she’d end up bound and gagged in Gus’s trunk. “I didn’t go to his house or anything.”

The look on Max’s face suggested he hadn’t even thought of that possibility. “I should hope you didn’t go to his house. You just happened to run into him?” He scolded her with his eyebrows. “You know I’ve already talked to him.”

“I know, but…” Megan sighed. “Anyway, that doesn’t matter. We talked a long time. We had some common ground you, know, losing someone we loved.”

The disapproving look on Max’s face softened and he nodded.

“So we talked,” Megan continued. “Anyway, he mentioned that you told him Romy wrote out some unusually large checks in the last few months.”

This time the look on Max’s face, as he continued to eat his sloppy joe, was the look of someone who would neither confirm nor deny. “Go on?” he said.

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