The Coral Killer by Anna Travis

Author:Anna Travis [Travis, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sweet Messy Faith
Published: 2019-02-25T05:00:00+00:00

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Ian turned the truck out of her parent’s driveway and back onto the road. This guy was a piece of work. Sure, he had tried to apologize, but in the process, he said he thought she was drunk! And whatever points he might have scored for looking out for her and Kylie were sponged away by his statement that he was only doing it so that Judah and Joseph wouldn’t hang him for abandoning their sisters.

Ruby folded her arms and stared out the window. They rolled along in silence, until Ian glanced at his phone.

“Rubix?” he asked. “Is that auto correct?”

“No,” she muttered, annoyed with herself for slipping and sharing something so personal. “It’s a nickname. But nobody calls me that but daddy and the boys, though.” She frowned, as if daring him to use their name for her.

He didn’t.

“How’d you get it?” he asked.

“I’m good with puzzles,” she admitted.

“Ah. Well…” he stammered, trying to fill the uncomfortable silence. “Kylie seems to bounce back pretty quick, doesn’t she?”

“That’s what dad hoped for when he named her Kylie,” Ruby said. “It means boomerang. And that’s just how she is! Otherwise she’d be shopping for a Jeep right now!”

“What’s that got to do with anything?”

“Nowhere to hide in a Jeep,” Ruby said with a shrug. “Even for a snake.”

It was quiet for a minute, and then Ian cleared his throat.

“So,” he said, turning the music down. “Want to tell me what happened?”

Ruby sniffed. “Not really.”

“Okay… Well, you have to. I need a statement,” he said, the blue eyes darting towards her again.

“Oh,” Ruby said. It was very annoying that she could not tell if he really wanted to know what had happened to her or if he just needed an official report.

Stupid blue eyes, she thought. Then she cleared her throat and told him what had happened in the Rookie Mobile.

“So, what about at Gilligan’s?” he asked.

Ruby heaved a sigh. Obviously Kylie had been pretty chatty.

“Come on, Ruby,” Ian said. “I know you’re working the case. We could help each other out. Especially if you really are good with puzzles.”

“Really?” Ruby finally turned to look at him.

“Sure,” he said. “I’ll go first. The lady you were trying to deliver to, her name is Ms. Mavis, and she has an alibi for the morning.”

“Do you have a time of the murder?” Ruby asked.

“Best guess, really. It takes forever to get stuff back from the lab,” Ian said. “Nothing like you see on TV.”

“So, what was her alibi?”

Ian dragged a hand through his hair.

“Well, between you and me,” he said, “She was at the bank trying to straighten some credit fraud out. She’s on their camera feed for a couple hours.”

Ruby’s breath caught.

“What?” he asked, turning those sharp blue eyes on her again. “Does that mean something to you?”

The eyes flicked back to the road, and Ruby folded her hands together, just to have something else to look at.

“Yeah,” she admitted. “There’s a guy here, named Cameron. He’s an investigator for some big credit company.

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