Lowcountry Seaside Mystery Box Set by David Banner

Author:David Banner [Banner, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Golden Pineapple Publishing
Published: 2019-06-29T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

The gentle rumble of his car engine bellowed through the island air. Ryan told his partner that he’d pick her up at home this morning and not to worry about driving to the office. In addition to her house’s being on his way, he wanted a few minutes in the car with her. It was a little childish, but the detective hoped she’d mention his best friend, Jackson. That, or he could find a way to work him into the conversation.

“Hey,” she said, opening the door and sliding in. Shimmering pink lipstick covered her lips. It was light, not the bold red traditionally found on the women one would expect to find it on the South. But after all, Kit Walker wasn’t Southern.

“You’re wearing lipstick,” Ryan said almost immediately.

“Yeah,” she said. “I guess I got tired of being the only person for a two-hundred-mile radius that doesn’t look like Dolly Parton.”

“That’s hardly fair.” Ryan shifted the car into drive and pulled away. “You could never look like Dolly. It takes a lot of money to look that cheap.”

A slow smile crept across her face as the two drove down the twisting Carolina backroads. Ryan had a feeling Royce Wright had probably spent the night at Carolina James’s house. If that was the case, it would be the best chance they had at speaking to him without letting the entire island know what they were up to.

“There should be bridges,” Kit said, her voice low and studied.

“What’s that, now?” Ryan asked.

“Bridges. There should be bridges connecting these islands. Just look.” Her eyes focused out the window. “This is Sullivan’s Island. We’re headed to Mount Pleasant, which is another island. But in order to get from one to the other, we have to go all the way back into Charleston, then all the way around town, just to end up a few miles down the coast. Why aren’t there bridges connecting the islands?”

It was a question the detective had never heard, and certainly not one he’d ever seen as a problem. This was his home, the land he’d grown up in and loved. To him, Lowcountry was perfect the way it was, every road, every outlying island. And honestly, by now, he figured his partner would have warmed up more to the whole place, that she would have learned to understand and appreciate the things that made it unique.

“There is a bridge. Ben Sawyer Bridge. But at the moment, it’s closed. Though if it were up to me, they’d never open it again. There shouldn’t be bridges,” Ryan answered. “That’s why they’re islands. If we keep building bridges, they won’t be islands. And I’m not the only one who feels that way either.”

“Yes, they would.”

“Not the same kind though.” He cleared his throat. “You still don’t get it, Kit. The people who live out here, the ones who populate these islands, they don’t want them connected to everything under the sun. They like the feeling of being surrounded by water, by nature.

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