Perfect Family by Pam Lewis

Author:Pam Lewis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Chapter 10

William

The house in Glastonbury where Ruth was working was easy to spot; it was the biggest on the street, the one with Tyvek sheeting all over the sides. William pulled to a stop and got out. There were wheels of sod lined up on the driveway and ready to roll. Maybe a dozen trees, each with its root ball in burlap, stacks of flowers in flats. Instant yard.

Ruth didn’t see him. She was out back with a tall, black-haired woman dressed all in white. The owner. The woman stabbed the air with a rolled magazine, pointing at something. Ruth followed, frowning, cocking her head. William watched. He mulled over, for the hundredth time, what Denny Bell had said and what Randy Martine had told him. William had been on the phone with Randy half a dozen times since they’d talked to Denny. Now Denny was changing his story a little bit. He didn’t think he could identify the guy after all. Maybe the guy was older, shorter, maybe it wasn’t a baseball cap but something else. What was going on? The kid was scared. Randy was checking all around the lake again to see who’d seen what. So far, nothing. Checking Pony’s address book, but with Denny’s description getting so slippery, it wasn’t easy. William had the feeling they were missing something big. Something really obvious.

He knew from a message Tinker had left on his machine that his father was calling another meeting for the coming weekend up at the lake to talk about it. “Denny Bell claims he saw somebody—a guy, of course—up at the lake with Pony that day, around six. He claims the guy went in after her. I don’t know what to think anymore. It’s a whole new can of worms, if you ask me. Anyway, Daddy’s holding a meeting on Saturday. We all need to be on the same page about it.” From the message, it was clear that Tinker thought William knew nothing about what Denny Bell had said he saw, which was galling enough, but the business about being on the same page was depressing, as if the information would shrink instead of expand.

William was leery about going. Maybe it was better to talk to Randy and leave the others out of it. When he told Ruth, she’d said that if it was up to her, he’d go to that meeting, no question, and if he didn’t, he should at least let them know he wasn’t. She had a point, but it was only Wednesday, the meeting wasn’t until Saturday, which meant there was time to decide. Right now what he wanted to do was make good on his promise to Ruth to go back to the Catskills and finish what they’d started. They’d do some peaks, fuck, be out in the mountain air.

Ruth and the owner of the house were looking in his direction now. The owner came mincing over in gold sandals. Ruth gave her the finger behind her back, and William smiled.

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