Sinister Stage: A Ghost Story Romance and Mystery (Wicks Hollow Book 5) by Colleen Gleason

Author:Colleen Gleason [Gleason, Colleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781944665630
Publisher: Avid Press
Published: 2020-08-25T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Jake decided to stake out the theater.

He didn’t know what else to do, but he needed to do something.

He didn’t have to work tomorrow, and he was pretty sure he wasn’t going to sleep tonight, so he packed himself a cooler with a sandwich, some water, and an array of snacks, charged his tablet, and was just about to leave when his friend Baxter texted him.

The message was short and to the point: Sup?

Jake hadn’t been in Wicks Hollow all that long, but he’d been there long enough to meet and befriend the town’s brewmaster: Baxter James, the creator of Baxter’s Beatnik Brews—also known as B-Cubed.

It helped that Jake had been sitting at the Roost with his pop for lunch back in March when Bax brought in a case of his latest creation, broke a bottle when he accidentally dropped the case on the counter, and ended up cutting himself on a piece of glass while trying to fish it out of the box.

Though Jake was generally most useful when looking at images of fractured bones or organs with shadows or other abnormalities, he was certainly able to butterfly up a deep cut without breaking a sweat. His payment had been half a case of the latest B-Cubed (the Straw Lager) and a two-hour mutual rant about Star Wars and how Disney had ruined the franchise (this topic came about because of the vintage poster from Return of the Jedi, which was hanging on the wall of the Roost along with that of about fifty other eighties movies).

Going on a stakeout. Want in? Jake texted back to Baxter.

His friend definitely wanted in.

So, fifteen minutes later, Jake and Baxter pulled into the theater parking lot in Jake’s car, taking care not to drive where the glass from Vivien’s vandalized Honda had been, and settled in the darkest corner behind the theater. If anyone cruised by, or even pulled into the parking lot, Jake and Baxter wouldn’t be noticed unless the newcomer drove all the way behind the building.

Jake had given his friend the short version of what was going on—after all, it wasn’t a secret that Vivien’s windshield and headlights had been smashed, since she’d filed a police report—and explained that they suspected someone had been making their way in and out of the building. And since there’d been an incident today, he thought whoever it was might want to come back and remove evidence.

“If I can catch the bastard red-handed—or at least see the asshole, even if he gets away—that would shut this down pretty damned quick,” he concluded. And he was more than happy to have company, just in case things got ugly.

In fact, if Jake could have gotten into the theater, they would have waited inside to surprise the culprit…but, of course, he didn’t have a key. He also realized he didn’t have Vivien’s phone number to ask her to borrow a key. Even if it was the same cell phone number she’d had back at NYU

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