Love Is Murder by Allison Brennan

Author:Allison Brennan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780345527998
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2011-01-24T23:00:00+00:00

VIII.

Fifteen minutes later, Lucy was bundled in ski clothes. She knocked on Angie and Kyle’s door. Kyle opened it. He was disheveled. Angie leapt off the bed and headed for the bathroom; Lucy noted she was naked.

She blushed. “I’m sorry—I didn’t mean to, well—”

“It’s okay. Is Patrick better?”

“Yes, but still queasy. Can I come in?”

“Sure.”

He closed the door behind her. Angie emerged from the bathroom in a robe. “I need your help,” she said.

“Like when you asked me to talk to Beth about Trevor?” Angie asked.

“Right. I need to go to Patrick’s truck, but I don’t want anyone coming with me. At least, anyone but one of you.”

“I don’t get it,” Kyle said.

“I have to trust someone, and I don’t have anyone else. Alan and Heather are probably fine, but Patrick thinks you’re on the up-and-up.”

“What’s going on?” Kyle asked.

“I don’t know,” she said, not willing to give up the fact that Vanessa was murdered. “But something is weird around here, and I think Patrick figured it out but then he was drugged. He’s not sick—he was intentionally drugged. And he doesn’t remember what he did last night.” That wasn’t a total lie.

“Was Vanessa drugged, too?” Angie asked, wide-eyed.

“I honestly don’t know. But I talked to the sheriff, and he’s working on getting deputies here by the end of today, but there’s no guarantee.”

“I’ll go with you,” Kyle said. “What do you need?”

“Well, I need a lookout because I’m going to search the barn. And Patrick’s gun is in his truck. And then—I need to get into the cottage.”

“You’re going to break into Grace and Steve’s house?”

“No, not exactly. I have a key.” She’d taken it from the office where everything was neatly labeled, even the extra key to the cottage. Considering Beth’s immaculate room, Lucy wondered if Beth had reorganized when she came over the summer.

“I’ll be downstairs in five minutes,” Kyle said.

Lucy turned to leave. Then she asked, “Yesterday, when you were dizzy, what had you been drinking?”

“Orange juice, why?” Then he shook his head. “You think there was something in the juice? Is that what Patrick drank?”

“No, but Steve has been dizzy and I saw him drinking orange juice last night.” She asked Angie, “Did you have some?”

“No, and I told Kyle he should have asked.”

“I just wanted some juice. Beth said to help myself between meals.”

“That was your third glass.”

“It was good.”

What could have had that fast of an effect? Or was it simply the quantity? And what would have caused light-headedness or fainting?

“I’ll see you downstairs.”

* * *

Leaving was much easier than Lucy had thought. She and Kyle traversed the fifty or so yards to the barn. She’d already verified that Grace and Steve were both in the main lodge. Beth was cooking soup in the kitchen for lunch. Lucy couldn’t count on the cottage remaining vacant, but she would have to take her chances.

The wind had died down, but the snow still fell. It was almost picturesque, except that she could barely see the barn.

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