Mosquito Bite Murder by Leslie Langtry

Author:Leslie Langtry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fbi, cia, romantic suspense, comedy, dark humor, spy
Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

We left our belongings at Possum Pass and made our way to the lake. The girls partnered up and sang sea shanties, which Betty told me was really big right now on YouTube. Hilly joined in with a particularly touching solo about drowning at sea. Only she used "drowning in a bucket" and it sounded suspiciously like a past job because it ended with the victim in a dumpster, and I was pretty sure they didn't have dumpsters at sea.

"Thanks a lot," I said to Riley, who hung back to be my partner.

"I can't say no to them." He shrugged. "You can't even say no to them."

"Be that as it may"—I lowered my voice—"I don't think hanging around here is a good idea."

His right eyebrow went up. "Admit it, you don't want to go. You want to stay and solve this."

After blustering for a few seconds as my feeble mind struggled to find a good reason, I said, "I have to be an adult and make the Kelly decisions."

Like last night, when you let the girls run off into the woods with you…

"Did you hear anything last night?" I asked.

Riley shook his head. "Nothing. Why?"

I related the whole story, from heading into the clearing, until a hood was thrown over my head and I was knocked to the ground. I ended with meeting up with Betty and Lauren after—and how they told me Hilly had been missing from her bunk.

"I can't think of any reason why Maria would attack you." He thought for a moment. "But Hilly would, to throw you off."

I sighed. "You've never really gotten along with her, have you?"

Riley shook his head. "I wouldn't say that. I'd say it's more like a gut instinct. How can you trust a certifiable assassin?"

The girls were quiet as Hilly went off the rails singing about joining the Merchant Marines in a way that made me think she actually had. She always was good at knots. I guess there was a thing or two I didn't know about the woman. Hopefully that didn't include Chad's murder.

Riley might have had a point. How much did I really know about her? Sure, we'd spent a lot of time together over the last year. But I had no idea she knew so much about the Merchant Marines. Which meant I might not know other important things about her.

"What is happening?" I complained. "No Maria, Hilly shows up out of the blue, and Chad's murdered."

"I think Hilly is after Maria," Riley said confidently. "And I think Hilly kidnapped Chad, grilled him on Maria, and dumped him here."

My shoulders slumped. "While that would be very convenient and solve our mystery, the problem with that idea is why didn't she kill him earlier?"

"Because she didn't get what she wanted out of him." Riley pushed on. "She was hoping to find out more. And she probably did, which resulted in his death."

"Why not just drag him off and leave him in the woods and bury him then?" I asked.

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