Summerhouse Reunion by Kathi Daley

Author:Kathi Daley [Daley, Kathi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kathi Daley Books
Published: 2020-04-14T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

By the time the following Thursday rolled around, Carrie’s offer on the condo had been accepted, and the preliminary paperwork on her house had been reviewed and accepted. Quinn still hadn’t shown up. We were expecting her on Monday or Tuesday, but her flight was delayed at the last minute, so she’d decided to take advantage of her long layover to cover a story that was breaking not all that far from where she was waiting for her flight back to the States. Of course, once she committed to that story, that set back her arrival a couple more days, and now we’d been told not to look for her until the Monday of next week at the earliest.

Nora had likewise been delayed. Personally, I thought that if Shelby was smart enough to be accepted by Harvard, she was smart enough to deal with whatever it was Nora was in Massachusetts dealing with, but then again, I’d never been a mother, so what did I know?

As for me, I’d settled into a calming and satisfying routine. I took a long run with Ryder and Baja every morning, after which I would return to the house, where I had coffee and bagels with Carrie, and he would return to his home to shower and get ready for work. Carrie had begun to pack up the house she’d lived in since marrying Carl. I could tell that having to sort through the mementos of her life and place them in boxes marked “keep,” “donate,” or “trash” was a lot harder on her than she wanted to admit, but she seemed determined to do what was necessary to get on with her life, so she pushed through her anger and grief and somehow did what she needed to do.

When I wasn’t helping Carrie with the sorting and packing, I was either devouring the journals I’d left behind or helping Sam go over old case files. I supposed he didn’t really need my help to do his job, but I had time on my hands, and I had been trained as an analyst by the FBI, so it wasn’t like I didn’t have anything to bring to the table. So far, we hadn’t found that single clue that would explain everything that had happened to Peggy or the other girls, but I was determined to keep trying.

“You certainly have a lot of photos,” I said to Carrie as I helped her box up dozens and dozens of photo albums as well as dozens and dozens of framed photos she’d hung on the walls of the home she’d lived in for the past twenty years.

“A lifetime of memories.” She picked up a framed photo and smiled sadly. “Some bad, but most good, even now.”

“Jessica was a cute baby,” I said, taking a better look at the photo she held.

“She really is the best thing I’ve ever done.”

“I know how much you love being a mother. I always wondered why you only had one child.”

Carrie sat back on her heels.

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