Gina Cresse - Devonie Lace 04 - A Deadly Change of Power by Gina Cresse

Author:Gina Cresse [Cresse, Gina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery: Cozy - Treasure Hunter - California
ISBN: 0803495382
Publisher: Avalon Books
Published: 2002-04-02T00:00:00+00:00

Jake, Ronnie, Craig, and I sat around the dining room table eating the best meal I can prepare in less than thirty minutes—spaghetti with toasted garlic bread and a green salad. Craig poured red wine for all of us.

“So, Jake. How’d you and Ronnie meet?” I asked.

Jake and Ronnie exchanged glances, then they both laughed.

“We met last year at Daytona. My company had given me a pit pass. One of the perks of working for World Motors—I get to play on their dime. Anyhow, Lance was racing, so Ronnie was there, working on his car. I spotted her cute little…coveralls, buried halfway under the hood. Not too often you see a woman mechanic at the track. I was intrigued, so I introduced myself. Offered some advice on the timing—sounded a little off to me. Anyhow, she let me know that my advice was neither needed nor appreciated.”

Ronnie shot him a defensive look. “I was nice to you.”

“Like heck you were,” he shot back. “If I had any less self-confidence, I’d have run away with my tail between my legs instead of hanging around to take more of your abuse.”

“Abuse. You don’t know abuse. You’re just too sensitive,” she joked.

Jake grinned at her. “So I hung around and pestered her until she finally told me she had to leave. She climbed into her souped-up golf cart and peeled out like she was driving one of those racecars she works on. The tires actually burned rubber on the pavement. I’d never seen anything like it.”

I caught Ronnie’s attention. “Your engine?” I asked.

She shook her head. “Not the same one that’s in my car. I put a little steam engine in the cart. That one I showed you my plans for.”

Jake continued. “I followed her to the team’s trailer and begged her to tell me about the golf cart. I was fascinated and offered to buy her dinner if she’d show me her other engines.”

Ronnie shook her finger at him. “Admit it. You were just interested in getting a date with me. You used the excuse of wanting to see the engines just to get on my good side.”

“Guilty as charged,” Jake admitted. “Anyhow, after the race was over, I bought her dinner. Somehow in the conversation about all her inventions, she told me where she lived. The next week, I flew to California, then I drove out to her place. She wheeled a funny-looking motorcycle out of her garage—looked like a little Yamaha two-fifty, but with an engine like I’d never seen before. She sat on the seat and told me to climb on behind her. Then she told me to hang on.” Jake smiled and rolled his eyes. “Yeah, right. But the thing wasn’t even running yet. I thought she was crazy. She told me, again, to hold on. I asked ‘what for?’ Then she spurred that thing on, and I fell right off the back. Knocked the wind out of me.”

Craig chuckled at the thought. “No kidding? Had some kick, did it?”

“Kick? You can say that again.

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