The 9 Lives Cozy Mystery Boxed Set, Books 1-3 by Louise Clark

Author:Louise Clark
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ePublishing Works!
Published: 2019-03-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Christy and Quinn made it back to Burnaby in time for the triumphant return of Noelle and her guardians from school. Noelle was delighted. Apparently the parade of grandparent-aged adults had caused a stir amongst her fellow students, only surpassed by Stormy when he leapt up into her arms as she was leaving the classroom. The whole class of twenty-five students had crowded around wanting to pat him. Noelle, in her glory, had allowed them access and the cat, thankfully, had purred loudly.

By the time Noelle finished gleefully reciting her story, Stormy still in her arms, Christy was sitting on her front steps, shaking her head and laughing. Ellen was disapproving, but no one was paying any attention to her. Eventually she brushed past Christy without acknowledging her and entered the house. As the door closed with a snap, Christy stiffened, then went back to talking to Noelle and the others.

Over the next couple of days Quinn watched as tensions grew at the Jamieson house. Natalie DeBolt visited both days, arriving after Christy and Noelle left for school and while Ellen was still drifting around in her nightclothes. Quinn knew all about that, because Christy wouldn't stay in the house with Natalie and retreated both days to Quinn's place. It was a situation ripe for disaster and Quinn thought that Natalie was at the core of it. He decided it was time to do some digging into her background.

He knew that she was married to Nathan DeBolt, the CEO of one of the province's wealthiest forestry conglomerates and a prominent member of Vancouver society. Nathan had a reputation of being a workaholic executive who used his recreational activities for networking rather than pleasure. Natalie, it appeared, had a similar philosophy. She had used her charitable work to enhance her profile and to provide her with a powerful position that built upon her husband's. Together they were a power couple.

Until their son was arrested as an accessory to murder.

That made Quinn wonder when Natalie and Ellen had become best buds. It also made him curious about how Natalie and Nathan DeBolt felt about their only son and his wayward ways.

Did Natalie have the kind of fierce protective feelings toward Aaron that Christy had for Noelle? How did Nathan feel as he watched his position and power erode because of a wastrel son who squandered the opportunities inherent in being the child of wealth and power and frittered away his time with drugs and wild sex?

Only one way to find out, Quinn thought, and that was to ask.

He secured an interview with Nathan DeBolt more easily than he'd expected. His reputation as an internationally known journalist was probably why the company communications director helped him out. Whatever the reason, he found himself in DeBolt's office at British Columbia Forest Industries at three on a Friday afternoon, sitting on one side of an oblong table with DeBolt on the other.

The BCFI offices were on the top twenty floors of a modern glass-and-steel tower on West Georgia Street.

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