Sketchy Charms (Mystic's End Mysteries Book 3) by Leanne Leeds

Author:Leanne Leeds [Leeds, Leanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781950505197
Publisher: Badchen Publishing
Published: 2020-05-06T16:00:00+00:00

Twelve

“It could have been Bill over the enormous crystal,” I chattered at Gabe in the truck as he drove me back to the store. “Or it could have been Emily over the enormous crystal since she inherits Tom’s portion…well, or the whole thing, right?”

“What gigantic crystal? And what has that phone told you?” Gabe asked.

“Or Lulu, for that matter,” I continued out loud, ignoring his question while I worked through the possible suspects. Grabbing my cell, I turned the up the sound on the app so we could hear any observations Tom might make. “Both of them could be suspects. Then there’s Rick, though I wouldn’t have thought be could do it until I watched him with Emily. He’s got it bad for the mailman’s wife. Maybe he bashed Tom in the head with a rock.”

“Just slow down, Sherlock, and back up a minute, will you?” Gabe said, pulling into the town plaza.

“Look, I’ll let you know what I figure out. Just drop me off in front,” I answered, my hand on the door handle as Gabe slowed down in front of my shop. “And thanks for the ride, even though you’re not talking to me.”

Gabe glared at me. “I’m driving you.”

“That would be the first time in several months, you know.”

“Look, I haven’t been avoiding you. I just…haven’t been coming around the way I did before—”

“You started avoiding me?” I joked.

“I wasn’t avoiding you,” he repeated with another glare.

“No?”

“No. I was avoiding Pepper.”

“When you opened this little isolationist bender, Detective, you were in the throes of shrieking at me in my own home.” I settled back in the seat and studied Gabe, letting my hand drop from the door. “Sure, Pepper was there, too, but you clearly intended some blasts to land on my head.”

Gabe turned to look out the front window, his hand still clutching the steering wheel. I waited for him to react to what I said, but he expressed nothing.

“Look, I get that you and Pepper have a lengthy, serpentine, emotional story. I even get why you would blame me for your grandmother getting mixed up in the Hugh Maddox thing. You didn’t just withdraw, though,” I told him. “You sidled up to Martin—”

“That had nothing at all to do with you and Pepper!”

“You and Martin just stopped talking to us on the same day?” I asked him, unconvinced. “You both froze us out and pretended we didn’t exist in the same twenty-four-hour period? It was just a fluke? How stupid do you think I am, Gabe?”

“I don’t think you’re stupid. The one thing I could say about both you and Pepper? You’re not stupid.”

“Apparently, we are, because she and I both felt you and Martin could handle having relationships with women who aren’t wilting flowers,” I told him sarcastically. “I mean, clearly, that was a foolish presumption on our parts.”

“Shut. Up. Idiots,” the app announced.

“What was that?” Gabe asked, his eyes large.

“Tom Wilson.” I held up the phone and positioned the screen toward Gabe. “I imagine he thinks this isn’t the time for this discussion, considering he’s trapped in a quartz.

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