Warning Signs by Katy Lee

Author:Katy Lee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

NINE

“What do you mean the package was gone?” Owen asked the back of Wes’s head from the top step of Miriam’s basement stairs.

“Like I said, we looked on every rock out there. Nada. No package and no sign of a flying bicycle.”

“So there you go. From the time I brought Miriam back to when you got out there, the pickup of the package was completed by the real perp. That proves her innocence.”

Wes led Owen to a wooden door that matched the surface of the walls. He wouldn’t have known the door was there if Wes hadn’t pulled it open. “It proves nothing. Besides, this is all the proof I need.”

He pulled a string dangling in front of them. Light revealed an eight-by-eight room filled with tan stacks of plastic-wrapped rectangular blocks from floor to ceiling.

Marijuana.

“I knew she was involved all along,” Wes exclaimed as Owen walked the perimeter of the room, forced to accept the sight before him—and what it would mean for Miriam. “She and her interpreter friend thought they were so hilarious, making fun of me right in front of my face. Well, now who’s laughing?”

Owen’s brain went into overdrive. “Nick said he had an appointment he couldn’t miss. Maybe he went to retrieve the package. Maybe he snuck these in here when Miriam wasn’t home. I’m sure she doesn’t even know this room exists.”

“Why are you defending her?” Wes demanded. “She’s guilty, Owen. Look around you. Just because she’s disabled doesn’t mean the laws are different for her.”

Disabled. It was the same word Owen had used with Miriam less than hour ago, but hearing it from Wes’s mouth sounded a bit harsh. It made him wonder how she felt when she heard people say it. How it made her feel when he’d said it to her. A stir of his scruples told him he might have hurt her.

“Oh, man, I think I messed up,” Owen mumbled aloud. He spoke to himself but also to Wes. “I think we might be wrong about that. I’ve watched her thrive in her surroundings with no assistance from anyone. Yes, she needs an interpreter, but anyone who speaks a different language would. That doesn’t make her disabled, right?”

Wes folded his arms, his head bouncing. “Oh, I see how it is. Never would I have believed it, but it seems I’ve uncovered two secrets today. It’s too bad you’ve fallen for a drug smuggler,” he huffed. “This would kill Rebecca all over again. Unless you’re glad she’s gone so you and the fiery redhead can get together.”

Wes’s remark drove the air from Owen’s lungs. He could do nothing but stand among the stacks of the destructive, toxic drug and hear the echo of his friend’s words, just as potent.

“I asked you to come here to help me crack this case,” Wes continued. “I did not expect you to interfere with it by getting cozy with the number-one suspect. You may not think too much of this island, but I do.

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