Savannah Martin Mysteries Box Set 7-9: Kickout Clause, Past Due, Dirty Deeds by Jenna Bennett

Author:Jenna Bennett [Bennett, Jenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw, mobi
Tags: interracial, thriller, series, romance, Southern, mystery, suspense
Publisher: Magpie Ink
Published: 2015-08-04T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

“Why?” I asked.

“Why, what?”

“Why do you doubt that my brother would like to see you?”

He didn’t answer, and I added, “My brother likes you. My sister does, too.”

“Your sister, sure. I don’t usually have a problem with women.”

Or rather, they didn’t usually have a problem with him. Always excepting my mother, of course. And—it seemed—Charlotte.

“But your brother’s Satterfield’s best friend. He musta wanted you to end up with him.”

“I don’t know about that.” I sat back in the seat. “It was always Mother who encouraged me to go out with Todd. Never Dix. I don’t think he would have minded if we’d ended up together, but I don’t think he’s disappointed that we didn’t, either.”

He glanced at me. “If you were my sister, I’d have wanted you to end up with Satterfield. I wouldn’t have wanted you anywhere near someone like me.”

“I guess my brother is smarter than you. He loves me. He wants me to be happy. And you make me happy.”

“That don’t mean he likes me, darlin’.”

“What’s not to like?” I shook my head. “You’re being weird. Why do you worry about this? He likes you. My sister likes you. Even Cletus seems to like you a little bit better than he did.”

“More like, he don’t dislike me as much as he used to.”

Whatever. “It doesn’t matter what they think of you. I love you. That’s the only important thing.”

Rafe looked like he wanted to argue, but the entrance for Copper Creek came up on the right, and he focused on finding my brother’s place among the other McMansions.

Like yesterday, I could hear the girls playing in the backyard, so like then, we headed in that direction and knocked on the gate. After a moment, Dix opened it.

“Oh,” he said, “it’s you.”

“Who did you expect?”

“Nobody. Come on in.” He stepped aside, and nodded to Rafe as the latter moved past him. I watched closely, but I could see no sign at all that Dix didn’t like my boyfriend.

Granted, they didn’t greet each other like long lost friends. But they weren’t long lost friends, so that would probably be too much to expect.

“What’s going on?” Dix wanted to know as he turned and headed back toward the deck.

I followed, leaving Rafe to lock the gate and bring up the rear. “Since the last time we spoke? One more murder and one attempted.”

Dix stopped dead in the middle of the grass, and turned to me. To us. “Two more people? Who?”

“Matt Perkins is dead. Danny Emerson is on his way to the hospital.”

“Prob’ly there by now,” Rafe added.

Dix said a word Mother would have frowned upon. I’d heard it before, so I didn’t blink. Rafe didn’t either, being someone who uses that word regularly, albeit not usually around me.

“How?” Dix started walking again.

“Matt was stabbed,” I said, following, “the same way Ethan was. Or so I assume. I didn’t really get a good look at Matt, and Rafe didn’t see Ethan.”

“There’re only so many ways to stab a man,” my boyfriend informed me as we gained the stairs.

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