Sitting on a Fortune (The Sisters, Texas Mystery Series, Book 9) by Becki Willis

Author:Becki Willis [Willis, Becki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-10T16:00:00+00:00

Nineteen

The teenagers were having a loud and boisterous time. After pizza and brownies, they started a movie, but it soon gave way to a board game.

“I never knew a board game could be so noisy!” Brash commented. He and Madison were in the formal library, close enough to keep an eye and ear on the teens, yet far enough away to give them a modicum of privacy.

“It’s one of those new ones. Interactive, they call it.”

“A far cry from Monopoly,” Brash mused. “Although, my family could get rough and rowdy, particularly considering we were playing for cardboard real estate and fake money. We boys would gang up on poor Laura and bankrupt her before she even turned around.”

“You meanies,” Madison teased. “I never had brothers and sisters to play with, but my cousins and I liked to play games whenever we were together.”

“Speaking of Monopoly, when are you scheduled to go back to Marvin Gardens?”

“Monday. I don’t think it will take me but one more day. Two, at the most. All in all, it’s been a pretty easy job.”

“No encounters with your neighbor?”

“Uhm, neighbor?”

“Surely you’ve noticed you’re working next door to the Gold and Silver Exchange.”

“Of course I’ve noticed.”

“And since you’re avoiding my question, I take it you’ve seen Lamont.”

“Maybe once, on our way to the parking lot,” she admitted.

“You’ve only worked there twice.”

“So, it could have been worse. I could have seen him going in and out, so a total of four times. One out of four ain’t bad,” she quipped.

“What were you doing with Miss Juliet’s journal? I saw it in the kitchen earlier.”

There was a reason the man was an excellent lawman and investigator, and an excellent football coach before that. He missed nothing. Madison decided she was tired of hiding so many secrets from her husband and decided to go with a partial truth.

“Someone told me something I found hard to believe, but it turned out to be true. I was curious if Miss Juliet ever mentioned it in her journals. Have you ever heard of Executive Order 6102?”

“Is that the one where the government confiscated all the gold so they could manipulate the economy?”

“Does everyone know about this but me? Yes, that’s the one. I had never heard of it before Mr. Pruett went on a rant in front of poor Latricia Jefferson the other day.”

“I saw the girl was working there after school now.”

“She and Jamal are a couple, so that’s why they’re not here tonight, hooting it up with the others in there. The poor girl looked confused by Mr. Pruett’s ramblings. But then again, he has that effect on most everybody.”

Brash nodded in agreement. “I caught the tail end of something about Nazi and Japanese warplanes the other day. I think he was really confused, thinking the year was 1941.”

“I don’t even know if he was born then. He has one of those colorless complexions that makes it impossible to guess his age.”

“I’m not sure about his next of kin, but I think it’s time someone intervened.

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