The Sorority by Nancy Bush

Author:Nancy Bush [Bush, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zebra Books
Published: 2024-08-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

“. . . didn’t make any other friends at the bar after that,” Taft admitted. “Kristl was hinting about going to my place, but I said I had to catch an early flight and we left it at that. She gave me her number and I told her I’d call her when I got back.”

Mac was listening to him on her cell’s speaker as she drove to Riversong Church. She flexed her hands on the wheel. She’d felt a flare of emotion at his first words about Kristl that she’d pushed aside.

“I said I would call her Monday, after my ‘trip’ to Phoenix, where I have family. She said she’s taking care of her mother, which has precluded any other kind of job. Meantime, still waiting to hear from Kingman’s family, his mother, mainly, and I’ve changed my mind. I’m going to go ahead and contact Sally Colville and Ham. Let me know how church goes.”

“Sure thing.”

“How’s the foot?”

“I’m not as good at wrapping it as you are, but it’s passable. I think I can hobble in without support.”

“Let me know if you need my expert touch again.”

“I will.” Taft had started this conversation with the fact that Detective Haynes had called him with the information that there was white paint scraped along Gavin’s vehicle and now the department was treating his accident as a potential crime.

But the big news was the results of the tox report on Ethan Stanhope. Fentanyl.

He and Ingrid had both died of fentanyl poisoning.

“What?” she’d gasped after Taft gave her the grim news. Taft’s sister, Helene, had died of a drug overdose and Taft was a bulldog when it came to bringing drug dealers and their ilk to justice. The whiff of Mangella dabbling in that market is what had ended Taft’s relationship with the man, and though Mangella swore up and down he wasn’t involved in drugs, Taft didn’t believe him.

“Yeah,” Taft said grimly. “It’s likely the accident was caused by loss of control from the drugs.”

Taft then went on to tell Mac that the tox report hadn’t been made public at Coral and Art Stanhope’s request, which gave Mac the uneasy realization that Gavin’s insistence there was more to Ethan’s accident was correct. She’d absorbed that news slowly, but concluded that was what he’d tasked her to find out, so she was going to do it. Was Gavin also right about The Sorority being involved? And did his own accident have any correlation to Ethan’s? Someone wanting him to stop telling everyone and anyone that Kristl, or some other Sorority member, was to blame for Ethan’s death?

And what about his brother, Tim?

Taft swore under his breath, bringing Mac back to the present. “Prudence is calling again. I’ve put her off too many times. Let me know how church goes,” he said again. And he was gone.

Mac stared at the road ahead of her. She needed to shake herself all over like a dog, throwing off all the unwanted feelings. Maybe engage in scream therapy or go for a jog .

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