Fools of Fortune by CJ Love

Author:CJ Love
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: humorous stories, romantic mysteries, small town mysteries, cozy mystery series, amateur female sleuth, bakery mysteries, shakespearean themes
Publisher: Columbine Publishing Group, LLC

Chapter 9

“Now, our joy, although our last and least”

The sidecar fit Delia like Michael Phelps’s swim pants. Becca sat behind Bogart, and neither she nor Delia wore helmets. They wore bug-eyed goggles.

Keeping to the back streets, it took them forty-five minutes to get to the Barcelona lighthouse in Westfield. Bogart was hauling buttski. He didn’t seem to think they made good time, however, because, at one of the stoplights, he gazed at both of them and said, “I feel like I’m dragging an anchor. Which one of you gained weight over the weekend?”

The ice cream!

It was past nine o’clock, and moonbeams glimmered on the lake on the right side of the road. There were trees and more trees, with a house here and there. Soon they’d be able to see the Daniel Reed Pier, but Delia smacked Bogart’s arm and pointed to the side of the road.

He pulled the bike onto the shoulder —which put the sidecar on the rutted track beside it. Delia removed her goggles and stared at the house kitty-corner to where they’d parked. Straight across from them were grass, fern oak, and pine. Lots of it.

Pulling her butt out of the sidecar, Delia stood on the shoulder next to Bogart. Becca stood on the other side of him. They all watched the house across the street. It was a single-story ranch-style with a broad front lawn and gravel driveway.

“What do we do now?” Bogart whispered.

“We surveil,” Delia said.

Becca shifted her weight. “How can we surveil? We’re too far away.”

“You’re right. We should get closer to the house.” This from Delia, who already had her eyes on the overgrown woodland next to the house. She pointed to the grove of kudzu and pine trees. “We can stay along the tree line and then see into the house.”

“This feels an awful lot like peeping tommerie to me,” Bogart said, setting his helmet on the handlebars of his bike. “I approve, of course.”

Delia ignored that. “Okay, we need to be fast and focused. We see Mate and then return to the motorcycle to call the police.”

They crossed the street quickly because there was no traffic. Stars hung about in the quiet sky, and the moon glowed. Once they reached the guardrail on the other side of the road, Delia went first and stepped over it. She remained parallel to the rail until it came to an end near Chu Hua’s driveway.

Had it really only been two months ago that she and Mate came out this way after Alfie’s funeral?

Alfie.

No one seemed to remember him after everything that had happened. Delia had cared about him, though, even though he’d been unfaithful.

Well, we weren’t engaged or anything.

But, still. When a man kisses a girl, doesn’t that mean something? It’d meant something to Delia. It wasn’t as though she’d gone around kissing many guys in her lifetime. When she grew brave enough to return a kiss, usually her heart was involved by then and, well, apparently Alfie’s heart hadn’t been.

And now funny Alfie is gone.

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