Five Mornings by Elizabeth Hunter

Author:Elizabeth Hunter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elizabeth Hunter

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DESERT BOUND

A Cambio Springs Mystery

Fall 2014

DESERT BOUND

A Cambio Springs Mystery

Chapter One

Teodora Vasquez threw her head back and let the slow spin of the beer and the music and the crowd at the Cave wash over her. She was almost there. Almost to the buzz that would let her forget the past week. The past month. Maybe the past year…

“Ted!” Tracey shouted at her from the other end of the bar. “Can you help me with this?”

The waitress was carrying two trays of empties and trying to maneuver behind the bar as patrons called out orders and the blues rock band playing that night started another set.

She stood and made her way over to Tracey. “You know, I’m not supposed to be working tonight.”

“I know.” The waitress managed to put the tray of empties on the back counter and turn to glower at the pushy patrons sitting at Ollie’s long oak bar. Ollie was at the other end, deliberately pulling pints and keeping an eye on Ted and Tracey. No one shouted orders at him. “But Jena had to leave and I can’t imagine this is harder than surgery, right?”

Ted frowned and glanced at the rowdy crowd. “Not too sure about that.”

“Please?” The woman’s gaze was desperate.

“Fine.” Ted stepped behind the bar and Tracey hurried to hand her a spare apron. No, waiting tables and making drinks wasn’t harder than operating the small medical clinic in Cambio Springs. The buzz she’d almost caught had disappeared with Tracey’s plea, and Ted couldn’t think of anything better than the whirl of activity at the Cave to quiet her mind.

“You’re a lifesaver!” Tracey fixed her mop of wiry curls into a ponytail and washed her hands before she started mixing the list of drinks she’d written on her pad. “I have no idea why Jena had to run out, but it must have been an emergency—Ollie, I need two Blue Moons and a cider—She didn’t even ask. Just told Ollie she was leaving—And a Fat Tire when you get a chance—He didn’t argue.”

He wouldn’t. Jena wasn’t a regular employee. Like Ted, she helped out when Ollie needed her and she wasn’t a flake. She was a chef and owned the only other restaurant in town, the Blackbird Diner. She also had two boys at home and another on the way, thanks to her hot-as-sin new husband, Caleb Gilbert.

“Hope it’s nothing serious.” Ted tried not to worry too much. If it were medical, her phone would already be ringing. She was the only doctor in town.

“I’m sure it’s fine.”

Ted grabbed a pad and headed out to the floor, nodding along to the music. It was a new band. Some boys from Las Vegas and they were good. The Cave was Ollie’s bar, but all of his closest friends helped out occasionally. It was fun to hang out on quieter nights, and they always drank for free. Jena and Caleb usually got a babysitter for the boys and helped out on the weekends, when live music filled the bar and things were busier.

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