Fitness Witness by Wendy Meadows

Author:Wendy Meadows [Meadows, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Majestic Owl Publishing LLC
Published: 2017-12-10T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

“I ’m just saying, it seems like a strange thing to do,” Alvira said, and settled back against the passenger seat in Olivia’s car. “I would’ve thought that it would be easier to just follow Lulu to wherever it was she went.”

“She was out of sight before Jake and I could even think to give chase. And if we had, what then? Lulu was hyper alert by that point and if she’d spotted us she’d likely have called the police,” Olivia replied. Not that there were many police to call, what with Keane out of commission.

Alvira clicked her tongue. “I don’t like any of it.”

“Alvie, I told you, you don’t have to be here.” Olivia turned from her assistant and looked up at the long drive that led to Lulu’s front door. The lights were off, and that garish green truck was nowhere to be seen.

“Yeah right, like I’d let you come out here on your own. I know what type of trouble you get into when you’re unsupervised.”

“Now you just sound like Jake.”

“Even supervised it’s touch and go,” Alvira continued, but her voice brimmed with mirth.

“I just want to see if she comes back here.” Olivia scratched her chin and fathomed it out. For all intents and purposes, it looked as if Lulu had stocked up on food and other necessities and hauled butt out of town. But why? Why leave now, unless she had had a hand in either Tina’s death or Fat Joe’s disappearance?

She clearly wasn’t home or coming home any time soon. The little house, with its two front steps and miniature porch spoke of careful care, but the front gate of the chain link fence swung and clinked in the slight breeze.

“– think that everyone in Chester is crazy. Don’t you? It’s hard not to think that after the umpteenth murder. And some of the folks who come into the shop are just beyond belief,” Alvira said.

Olivia clunked open her car door and slipped into the night, glancing left and right at the neighbors’ houses. The noise from a TV – the Late Night Show specifically – leaked from an open window in one of the houses, but all the curtains in the street were drawn, lights off or not, and folks hardly expected a snooper in their neighborhood.

“Olivia?” Alvira hissed. “What are you doing?”

“I’m going to check it out.”

“Unbelievable. As if to prove my point about the craziness.”

“You stay here, I’ll be back in a moment,” Olivia said, and hurried across the sidewalk and to the front gate.

“Olivia! I don’t think this is a good idea,” Alvira whispered.

Olivia shushed her, then opened the gate and entered the yard. She high-tailed it up the path and right to the front door, then bit her lip. Okay, so what had she expected to find here? She couldn’t knock – there was no one home, after all.

Frustration and the certainty that Lulu was up to something scratched at the surface of Olivia’s calm. The woman had left town the day her boyfriend had disappeared.

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