Sabers, Sails, and Murder by Nola Robertson

Author:Nola Robertson
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781734102253
Published: 2020-03-28T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

When Shawna and Jade told me we were going to the corner grocery for snacks, they’d neglected to tell me they’d also planned to take me on a stakeout. One they didn’t mention until we arrived in Arlene’s neighborhood and had parked across the street from her house.

“Are there any more of those chocolates left that your mother sent from Las Vegas?” Jade turned in her seat and held out her hand expectantly.

“Sorry, we polished those off twenty minutes ago.” It was a good thing my friends hadn’t been around when I’d received the package; otherwise, the additional bag of colorful, delectable treasures I’d hidden in my desk would have disappeared along with the first one.

“I can’t believe I let you guys talk me into this. Arlene already told Roy she thinks Max murdered her husband, and she’s not exactly a fan of the rest of my family.” I stared from my place in the backseat of Jade’s car at the light filtering through the blind covering the front window of her home.

The house was a white two-story colonial with an attached two-car garage. There were four columns situated beneath an awning running along the front porch. The lawn was well-manicured, and flowerbeds lined the red brick walkway leading from the sidewalk to the first step.

Jade had parked across the street, but it didn’t stop me from worrying that the police were going to show up any minute after receiving a report of suspicious characters lurking in the neighborhood.

“Don’t you want to know if Braden and Arlene are involved?” Shawna shifted sideways to glance back at me. “We can’t exactly follow them around during the day, not without making her suspicious.”

My friend was the one who wanted to know if the two were having an affair. All I wanted to know was whether or not they were responsible for Jake’s death, something I was certain I could find out during daylight hours.

“Yeah,” I snorted. “I can see how three women sitting in a parked car in a quiet neighborhood late at night wouldn’t seem unusual at all.”

Shawna frowned, then grabbed a handful of chips out of the bag sitting between her and Jade. She stuffed them in her mouth, crunching them loudly as she turned to face forward again.

“Guys.” Jade straightened in her seat, her voice rising with excitement. “It looks like this wasn’t a waste of time after all.”

I leaned forward to get a better look at the vehicle pulling into Arlene’s driveway. As soon as the driver’s door opened and the automatic light above the front door came on, the three of us gasped at the identity of the new arrival.

“Hey, isn’t that…” Jade was the first to comment.

“Yep,” I said.

“Well, I didn’t see that coming.” Shawna gripped the dashboard. “I guess Arlene likes younger guys.”

“It appears so.” I watched Arlene open the door with a huge smile, then pull Lucas into a tight hug. If they were in a close relationship, I’d have expected a full-blown kiss on the lips, not the chaste one she placed on his cheek.

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