Off the Beadin' Path, Glass Bead Mystery Series, Book 3 by Janice Peacock

Author:Janice Peacock
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Janice Peacock
Published: 2017-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

FIFTEEN

I woke up the next morning to the smell of coffee That was always a wonderful way to start the day. I padded out to the kitchen and grabbed a cup. Andy was still sitting at his computer where we’d left him.

“I hope you haven’t been up all night working on this favor for me,” I said, pouring myself a cup of coffee. “More coffee?”

“No, I’m good.”

“What did you find out?” I said, taking my first glorious sip of java. “Ahh.”

“I think you have a serious coffee addiction. You’d fit right in with everyone here in The City.”

“The City? What does that mean? Seattle is a city, but we don’t call it The City when we’re talking about it.”

“It’s just a San Francisco thing,” Andy said, shrugging. “So, here’s what I’ve got. It looks like the girl, Robin, was seriously injured, crushed by the car that hit her. There was a lawsuit, Carl and Vickie Nest versus some people named Abigail and Desmond McCabe.”

“Abby and Dez. The Nests think Dez ran over their daughter?”

“That’s what the court records say. It says here the case was thrown out due to insufficient evidence.”

“What’s up?” Tessa asked, joining us at the computer.

I explained to Tessa what we’d learned about the hit-and-run accident.

“Given what Dez is like today, drinking and driving all over the place, it wouldn’t surprise me if he did hit the poor girl,” Tessa said.

“It sure would explain why Carl hates Dez so much,” I said. “It also means that if Dez is missing, it might be because Carl, or Vickie, for that matter, had something to do with it.”

“That’s a pretty big leap to make. We don’t even know if Dez is dead. But it’s a huge coincidence that something terrible would happen to both Marco and Dez on the same night,” Tessa said.

“One thing we do know: Marco is dead. We should get on the road and find Dario so we can tell him the news,” I said.

• • •

Back in our little black Fiat, we headed north toward Napa.

“Why didn’t you ever tell me about Dario?” I asked. In the time right after we had graduated from high school, when Tessa had moved to Italy and I’d gone to the University of Miami to get a degree in biology, we’d lost touch for a few years. It must have been during the time when we drifted apart that she dated Dario de Luca. She’d never mentioned him to me before, so perhaps he hadn’t been important to her.

“Oh, you know, he was a chapter in my life. Why bring it up when it’s ancient history?”

“I feel like I missed out on a big part of your life.”

“I was in my early twenties and was living in Venice. It was such a beautiful, romantic place. I mean, how could I help myself? My grandparents wanted to find me a man. To be honest, I was excited when Dario, from the famous de Luca glass family, wanted to go out with me.

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