Saving Grace (Katie & Annalise) by Pamela Fagan Hutchins

Author:Pamela Fagan Hutchins [Hutchins, Pamela Fagan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Fiction: Contemporary Women, Fiction: Mystery & Detective -- Women Sleuths, Fiction: Ghost
ISBN: 9780988234864
Publisher: SkipJack Publishing
Published: 2013-11-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-five

The next day, I called my island friends.

First Ava. “Guess whose crazy red-headed friend is moving to St. Marcos in two weeks?” I asked her.

Ava shouted so loud I had to pull the phone away from my ear. “For real? You moving here for real?”

“I am. I bought Estate Annalise.”

“You crazy. Anyone buy that jumbie house crazy. Good crazy, brave crazy. But then I know that about you already.”

“Well, that jumbie house won’t be ready for me to live in for a long time. I need a friend who’d like a roommate for a few months.”

“And that friend be me, of course,” she said.

“I’m going to need more help, the kind of help that requires a truck and a lot of experience on the west end of the island,” I said, putting my drop line in the water.

Ava bit. “Rashidi good for that. You got his number?”

I didn’t so she gave it to me. One issue solved. I called Rashidi next.

I was unsure how to begin. “This is Ava’s friend Katie. How’s it going?” I asked him.

He made things just right immediately. “I good, but I hear a rumor some continental lady trying to buy Annalise. That be you?”

“Not only tried, but was successful,” I said.

“Wah? You buy the jumbie place? You for real?”

“I’m afraid I am. I think I’m going to need some help. Ava suggested I call you.”

“No worries. Any red-haired friend of Ava a friend of mine.”

I told Rashidi I needed an agent to help me buy a truck before I got back on-island. He informed me I needed a pack of dogs more.

“Locals scared of dogs. All dogs. You gonna need them to watch over Annalise once you start prettying her up and putting supplies and things there. And you gotta have dogs dem to protect you if you live up in the bush. I get you some good dogs, three or four be about right.”

I hadn’t anticipated a pack of guard dogs, but I could see his point. And he was the local, not me. If I remembered correctly, I liked dogs. Or maybe it was cats I liked. We’d had both when I was a kid, twenty years before. It didn’t really matter, though, as Rashidi and I were talking about outside, working guard dogs. I wouldn’t have to deal with slobber or dog hair or bodily functions.

“So, if I wired you the money, could I get you to pick up a truck for me? I found a used one for sale in the St. Marcos Source online. It looks like exactly what I need.”

“Yah mon. Why don’t you let me drive it ’round first, make sure it OK.”

“Wow, thanks. I’m going to pay you for your help, of course.”

“Now why you want to insult a man like that? We new friends.” First Ava, then Rashidi. It was raining blessings.

“Fine, thank you. Then I’m at least going to feed you when I see you.”

“That I let you do, for true.”

He hung up, promising to check out the truck and start the hunt for the right dogs immediately.

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