Half-Told Truths (Colorado Skies Book 2) by Amy O. Lewis

Author:Amy O. Lewis [Lewis, Amy O.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arrow Road Press
Published: 2022-04-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

The image of Lydia Brooks leaning back in her chair, arms crossed and eyebrows arched knowingly, stuck with Kim long after she left the rec center. At home, she made a salad and warmed a vegetable casserole for Lena’s dinner. She set one place at the patio table and claimed to have eaten a late lunch when Lena asked why she wasn’t joining her. She had too much on her mind to sit and pretend to make small talk.

After Lena finished eating, Kim cleaned the kitchen, then went to work at the bakery. She only had an hour or two of work to do and could easily have put off going in until later in the week. Tonight she wanted to keep moving.

She followed her usual route through the neighborhood. Main Avenue was quiet this late in the day. The shadows were growing longer. The air seemed to hold a different quality, a hint of a changing season. Walking, Kim replayed her conversation with Lydia Brooks. Brooks had said Brad Chase had money problems. So what? Lots of people did. But Chase wasn’t just anyone. He was Durango’s favorite son, the fabled prince of the San Juan wilderness, the local boy who had ventured into the world and returned a conquering hero.

Not Chase, she repeated.

She kicked a stone, frustrated. Someone in Durango had a secret worth keeping; of that she felt certain. The question was who, and where could she or anyone else start tugging to discover the reason why that person had taken such extraordinary measures to ruin Lena?

By the next morning, Kim had the rudiments of a plan. The first part was obvious: find the fund Chase’s friends had donated to and see whether he had received any suspicious gifts. She had no idea whether that information was public. In any case, trolling for it would have to wait until after nine, when banks opened. In the meantime, she had another idea. She left the house earlier than usual, taking her car.

Durango boasted two indoor shooting ranges. Little as she knew about guns, Kim knew that no ordinary marksman had shot Lena in Wildcat Canyon. Whoever he was, he was not only good, he had practiced. She took the back way out of town. She passed the turnoff at Third Street that led to Horse Gulch and drove along the east side of the river. She was dressed in blue jeans and hard-soled shoes. She would have preferred boots but didn’t own any. She tucked a long-sleeved shirt in behind a belt. No cowgirl in appearance, she at least managed a slightly tougher look. She hoped it would help her cause.

A long display case occupied the front room inside the Durango Sportsman’s Club. Kim walked in to the sight of dozens of pistols lining two shelves in the case. A man sat behind the counter, middle-aged with a guarded look on his square face. “Help you?” he said.

“I’m not sure,” she said, glancing at the wall behind him where rifles of all makes and models hung.

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