Laura Cardinal 02-Dark Side of the Moon by Black J Carson

Author:Black, J Carson [Black, J Carson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense, American Suspense, Police Procedural, Crime Thriller, Murder Investigation, Arizona
Publisher: Breakaway Media
Published: 2014-01-07T00:00:00+00:00

24

The drive back took more than four hours. Once again Laura would be home late at night. Driving through the darkness through the Tohono O’odham reservation, she tried to figure out what was going on with Shana and Bobby.

They could be anywhere by now. But she was betting on Williams, which meant another trip up north.

She wondered if he really meant to marry her, or if it was a ploy to get her to go with him. From everything she had heard, Shana sounded like a user. Shana was a user and Bobby was a user. Who won when two users got together?

Laura was betting on Bobby.

As she got on I-10 to drive across Tucson, her mind turned to home, and to Tom. She realized that she’d been overreacting. The idea that he had suddenly fallen in love with a lost hiker—that sounded just a little bit paranoid. She hadn’t talked to him for several days, and there was nothing to prove that things had changed between them, except for her own bad feeling. If she looked at it logically, from an investigator’s viewpoint, there was no evidence that anything was amiss.

She needed to chill.

But when she got home, Tom was still gone. No evidence that he had come back.

Where would he be now? Presumably the hiker was in the hospital for observation or out and going on about her life. Laura walked over to the cantina looking for him, but he wasn’t there. Mina saw her and held up a hand, a signal that she would come by when she was done serving other customers.

Tom obviously wasn’t here, and Laura didn’t want to hear a lecture tonight. She walked back along the horse trail toward her house, stopping at the corrals.

Tom’s trailer was back, but his truck was gone. His decrepit retired saddle bronc, Ali— named for Mohammed Ali—was in the corral.

Laura was relieved that Tom hadn’t left for good. He wouldn’t leave without taking Ali.

She went back to the house, which was still empty. Got into bed, but couldn’t sleep. Frustrated and angry that she was listening for him again.

She felt shut out. She wanted to know what was going on—if anything was going on. But there was no way to reach him. He didn’t have a cell phone. He didn’t have much of anything. He was the kind of man who lived his life the way he wanted to, and didn’t worry about what other people thought.

Laura hated not being able to do anything about it.

She turned on the TV set. It was the same channel from last night, one of those movie channels where they repeat movies, because The Sixth Sense was on again.

Haley Joel Osment and Bruce Willis were back at the wake for the little girl.

The little girl handing Haley Joel the box.

The girl getting out of her bed and turning on the video camcorder.

The mother coming in with the tray, setting it down, pouring something into the child’s food—all of it caught on tape.

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