Kendra Clayton Mystery Box Set by Angela Henry

Author:Angela Henry [Henry, Angela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780692269909
Publisher: Boulevard West Press
Published: 2016-08-11T22:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

Rollins’s office was located just off the large atrium at the church entrance. The door was unlocked and I let myself in. I was expecting a large, lavishly decorated office and that’s just what I found. Lush, pale gold carpeting covered the floor and a large circular oak desk sat in the center of the room like an island. The wall behind the desk was made of multicolored glass blocks and gave a distorted view of the street below. Instead of chairs in front of the desk there was a dark gold love seat with red silk accent pillows. The shelves built into the cream-colored wall to the right of the desk were filled with books, glass vases, and several small woodcarvings. A sliding panel in the wall to the left of Rollins’s desk was open and revealed a large-screen television, CD/DVD player, and an aquarium of tropical fish. I looked up and saw that a mural depicting Rollins in the pulpit delivering a sermon had been painted fresco-style on the ceiling. Good grief. Somebody needed to get over himself.

I sat on the love seat for a few minutes but, being the supremely nosy person that I am, was soon up looking around. Rollins’s huge desk held dozens of pictures and I took the time to look at each one. Many were of him in his ministerial robes with members of his congregation. Several were family pictures of him and his brother Rondell when they were young men. I was surprised to notice that Rollins’s looks had gotten better as he’d aged. The pictures showed him to have been a lanky young man who looked uncomfortable with his height. I almost didn’t recognize Rondell. He was much slimmer and his clothes fit. There were many pictures of Inez as a little girl and even one of Inez as a teenager with a protective arm around her younger cousin Shanda. Shanda was looking up at Inez with an expression that can only be described as worshipful. Whatever their relationship had become at the time of her death, there’d clearly been a time when Shanda had adored her cousin.

I noticed a more recent picture of Inez, her father, and another pretty young woman that I didn’t recognize. Rollins was in between the two young women with his arms around both of them. They were all smiling widely. Both Inez and the other woman wore braids but Inez’s hair was done in a much more intricate design, pulled away from her face, while the other woman wore her braids hanging loosely to her shoulders from a center part. This must be Nicole Rollins. While Rollins barely looked like he was in his fifties, he still looked old enough to be Nicole’s father. I didn’t blame Inez at all for being angry with her father. I tried to imagine my father marrying Lynette if something happened to my mother. I couldn’t do it. But I did get a sudden idea of what I would say to him about my so-called problem when he arrived for our talk.

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