Lethal Target by Janice Cantore

Author:Janice Cantore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FICTION / Christian / Romance, FICTION / Romance / Clean & Wholesome
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2018-10-08T16:00:00+00:00

31

After Oliver left, Tess checked the time. Jeannie should be in soon. She contemplated going home; she lived five minutes away. Then she decided against it. While she hadn’t picked up her overnight bag, Tess had a change of clothes in the car, a vestige of preparedness left over from her time in Long Beach, when she’d taught disaster preparedness and the worry was earthquakes. She’d considered staying at the inn for the whole weekend, even after Jeannie left, but still hadn’t decided.

She drank another glass of iced tea and watched the river out the big picture windows in the dining room, a view she never tired of. A drift boat passed by, followed by a raft filled with people. Summer, the busy season on the river, had barely started, but Tess was ready for winter and cooler weather. She’d never been a beach girl. Her fair skin burned too easily, and she enjoyed the snow more than the sand. The first winter she’d spent in Oregon had been snowy and very cold, but she hadn’t minded. She’d found that the four-wheel-drive vehicle the city provided was more than adequate to get her where she needed to go.

Next year she’d be even better prepared.

Thinking about next year gave her pause for a moment. The contentious city council meeting was seared in her mind. She’d been trying to forget all she’d heard from people in the community she served, especially Drake in his grief. It was easy not to like the cop. She remembered what an old training officer used to say: “If you want to be popular, be a fireman.” For Tess that was never an option.

If Cole won the election for mayor, she wouldn’t have a job here next year.

Would she stay in Oregon? Tess thought of Oliver, Casey, Addie, Steve—all people she considered friends. The pain at the thought of leaving friends again so soon took her by surprise. But then, this was home now.

The dining room emptied quickly with the exodus of the quilting group; but now people began to dribble in for dinner. Tess finished her tea and moved to a comfortable chair in the lobby, fighting the urge to pace and finding herself full of restless energy. She wanted to be all in for Jeannie’s visit because her friend might not be back for a while, but Tim’s case would not leave her thoughts. The lab promised her some results by Monday. A real lead on Tim Harper’s murder was something she pinned a lot of hopes on. Closing that case should relax Drake and maybe even shut Hector up.

“Hiya, Chief.”

Tess looked up into the smiling face of Tilly Dover. A work in progress, the ex–drug tragedy looked clean and sober and happy. Tess had solved the murder of Tilly’s boyfriend last summer, and Tilly had been a mess. A bad accident had sent her to the hospital and circumstances had forced her to get clean. She had one relapse after the first of the year, and for a short while, Tess was afraid that the girl was lost.

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