The House at Saltwater Point by Colleen Coble

Author:Colleen Coble
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2018-05-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

If a good foundation is the most important part of a structure, the roofing is a close second. It does no good to fix things inside if the roof is bad.

—HAMMER GIRL BLOG

The next morning Jason was waiting for her in the main house when she came through the back door with her backpack slung over her shoulder. The crashing of walls coming down and the banging of hammers told her demolition was still in progress. She coughed at the dust in the air.

Jason wore a tool belt slung low over his dust-covered jeans, and he motioned for her to join him at the wall between the kitchen and dining room. “You wanted this one down, right? What else?”

Ellie retrieved her blueprints from her backpack and rolled them out on the Formica counter in the kitchen. “That wall too.” She pointed to an adjacent wall that adjoined the living room.

Jason nodded. “I checked the attic, and we’re going to need a support beam.”

“I assumed we would. I also want to join the two smaller bedrooms down the hall to make a master. And we can make a second guest master upstairs with the full bath next to the smallest room. We can put another half bath under the stairs.” She pointed out her plans on the blueprint.

“Looks good. Nice and airy.” He slid the hammer in his hand back into his tool belt.

She knelt and examined the floors. “These look like solid oak. I think we can save them. I know where to get lookalikes to fill in where the gaps are after we take down the walls.”

“That’s what I thought.” Jason paused and studied her face. “Any updates about Mac yet?”

“No, they have no leads on what happened to her.” She reached up and brushed drywall dust from his hair.

He frowned. “You said you were investigating. What have you found out?”

She couldn’t tell him about the terrorist angle. He’d been too ready to believe the worst about Mac, and she didn’t have the strength to defend her sister.

“What about the missing cocaine? Is the Coast Guard still fingering Mac for that?”

She looked away at his eager expression. All he wanted to hear was dirt about Mac. “Well, yes. There’s a video that shows her directing two other men where to load it. There’s not much doubt she took it, but I’m sure there was a good reason. I just have to find out what it was.”

“I’m not surprised. She pulled the wool over your eyes for years. She wasn’t the Girl Scout you’ve always thought she was.”

He was talking about Mac like she was dead, and Ellie wasn’t ready to accept that. “I think someone made her take it.”

He took his cap off and ran his hand through his sun-streaked brown hair. “You have the evidence right in front of you, but you refuse to see it. I don’t even know what to say to you.”

She touched his arm. “You loved her once. How can you be so hard-hearted?”

“I have known her since we were in school, Ellie.

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