Wands Have More Fun by Rebecca Regnier

Author:Rebecca Regnier [Regnier, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2019-06-13T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

My plan was to sit back. Watch. And see what the heck the Fraternal Order of The Moose Lodge was doing. I parked my Jeep around the corner and pulled out my binoculars. I’d thrown them in the Jeep today knowing I was going on a stakeout. I chuckled to myself at how my work life was getting more and more adventurous. As a television reporter, stakeouts usually weren’t possible, what with satellite trucks and vehicles marked with station logos.

For the first ten minutes or so, cars pulled into The Moose Lodge parking lot, men walked inside, and nothing too exciting happened.

“Well, all be darned, that’s who it is.”

One of the members walked in, and his tattered down parka looked very familiar.

I had forgotten that I’d thought I’d recognized the voice of a Moose member who’d volunteered for whatever tonight’s festivities were.

It had flown out of my head with the wands and the vision and the pageant. But there he was again, Yooperman. He was a member of the lodge and he’d volunteered but been rejected for whatever the heck was going on.

The reporter for the Man Cave Dot Com was none other than a Moose Lodge member. I’d bet the website could be traced right back to this address.

I made a note to ask Justin Lemorre to do a little digging on that front. I mean anyone who wanted to open a newspaper or start a website could do it. But it was interesting that Yooperman’s agenda seemed to line up with The Moose Lodge, which was firmly in the anti-DLC camp with Ridge Schutte.

Aunt Dorothy was right as rain about Ridge or Alvarado or anyone swooping in and trying to find footing to control our town. It only took a little crack before every ear flap wearing khaki sporting dude with a beer cozy tried to muscle their ideas down our throats.

I was getting riled up just sitting there and realized I was just supposed to be collecting information. I was supposed to be observing just what The Moose Lodge and their merry band of volunteers were up to.

Aha! It looked like the assembled group was now filing out. They formed two lines, a path of sorts. Then six guys walked out through the path. The Moose Lodge Members saluted them like they were about to storm the beach at Normandy or something. Oh, brother.

A minivan pulled up, and the six got inside.

Now it was going to be tricky. I needed to follow and not get caught. But that’s where I had an advantage.

I waited for a beat and turned on my cell.

“It’s a light blue minivan, a Ford Windstar.”

“Got it.” Tatum had volunteered to be my literal wingman. She’d outfitted herself with an earphone for her cell, so she didn’t go haywire up there. She mounted her broom and went high enough up to be hidden, but low enough to keep an eye on the van.

“Okay, north, toward Lulu Road.”

With her help, I could stay far back, and she could stay far up.

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