Warrior, Fatal & Flawed by Jacqueline M. Green

Author:Jacqueline M. Green [Green, Jacqueline M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-29T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

I strode down to The Yoga Mat and wearily dumped my breakfast on the table. Picking up the folder from the week, I scanned through the list of students.

I liked to match up names with passes, checking that I hadn’t missed anyone who had attended class that week and making sure I remembered which students were regulars at which classes and which ones went to a variety of classes. Customer service is important, even in a yoga studio.

Cindy picked up a couple of the evening classes for me, and I wanted to make sure I didn’t miss any new students that she and Stormy had signed in. Cindy always circled new students’ names with a purple felt tip pen, so they were easy for me to spot. She had had several new students this week, but one name jumped out at me: Buddy Johns.

I picked up my phone and punched in Cindy’s number. She picked up immediately. “I’m heading out the door, sis. What’s up?”

“Why is Buddy Johns’ name on our sign-in list?”

There was a brief silence. “Because he took a class? That was last night, right? Yeah, he came in just before class started and used one of our mats. I think you ran into him on your way out. He’s in great shape.” She cleared her throat. “Not that I noticed. Why the interest? Do you know him?”

Should I tell her or not? Josie’s conversation came back to me and I decided quickly.

“No, I was just following up that he paid the drop-in fee.”

Cindy seemed to get a little impatient. “He did, Mariah. I wrote it down in the ‘paid’ column. I gotta go. Love you, bye!”

Cindy ended the call, no doubt off to do important sheriff’s work, I thought sarcastically.

I stared at the name. Buddy Johns had been in my studio the very day after his ex-girlfriend had been killed by the river. That had to be more than a coincidence.

After my class, I quickly locked up and jogged down the street to CeCe’s. Once inside, I grabbed her arm and pulled her to the back of the shop to tell her about Buddy Johns.

Her mouth fell open. “He was here and we have proof. He killed her. He must have come here and killed her. This is great news.”

My eyebrows lifted all by themselves. CeCe blushed.

“Well, not for Serena, but for Lee and Neil.”

I patted her arm. “We don’t know that for sure, Ce. We need to go to Sacramento and talk to him.”

CeCe’s shoulders drooped. “Today?”

I nodded solemnly. She looked like she was about to protest, but she changed her mind. We agreed to run up to Sacramento, not quite an hour and a half away, right after my two o’clock class.

“You’ll bring snacks, right?” I threw over my shoulder as I snagged my mocha from the counter and scooted back out the door so I wouldn’t be late for my private session.

As soon as the two o’clock class was over, I waved to Stormy, then slipped out the back door to my car.

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