Weddings & Weapons_A Presley Thurman Mystery by Laina Turner

Author:Laina Turner [Turner, Laina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781729427668
Amazon: 1729427669
Publisher: Independently published
Published: 2019-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

We walked to the diner and Sheldon went in and asked one of the waitresses if Eric was working. When she said yes, we decided to wait out in the parking lot to catch him when he was leaving, neither one of us wanting to bother him at work. The diner was only open for breakfast and lunch and it was already after noon, so we wouldn’t have to wait long.

To pass the time we talked about our backgrounds and played a trivia game on an app on my phone. Now that I was getting to know him a little better, I thought he seemed like a decent guy.

“I feel like I should start reading encyclopedias,” Sheldon said after his fifth missed question in a row. “This game’s making me feel really stupid. My tenth-grade world history teacher would be embarrassed.”

“Do they even make encyclopedias anymore?”

“I don’t know. Maybe electronic versions?”

“Let play something easier. I think I have tic tac toe. That shouldn’t be too challenging.” I started to search through my apps for the game when Sheldon grabbed my arm.

“There’s Eric,” he said pointing to the back door where a man had walked out.

I squinted, the sun was in my eyes, but he was right. That was him. I felt a nervousness in my stomach at confronting him, but I still felt this was a better course of action than talking to Glen.

“Let’s go,” Sheldon opened the car door to get out and I followed suit.

“Hey, Eric,” he called out and Eric turned toward us.

“What are you doing here, Sheldon?” Eric asked, with a none too friendly look on his face, as we got close. He obviously knew Sheldon. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised since this was a small town and they weren’t that far apart in age. But Eric asked his question with such a flat tone and scowl on his face that gave me the impression he was not happy about the fact Sheldon was here. Was there some animosity between the two I didn’t know about? Is that why Sheldon thought this was a bad idea?

“We need to ask you about Roger Barrett. By the way, this is Presley,” Sheldon said in an offhand manner.

Eric barely nodded in my direction, not very interested in meeting new people, I guess. Fine with me. Sheldon could handle this conversation.

“What makes you think I know anything about Roger Barrett?”

“Did you know he was murdered?”

My guess was no by the shocked look on Eric’s face. Sheldon must have noticed that too because he didn’t even give him a chance to answer.

“Presley said she saw you talking to him the other day and it didn’t seem like a friendly conversation.”

Even though I knew this is what Sheldon was going to say I couldn’t help but feeling a little uncomfortable for Eric to know I’d been eavesdropping on him. The dirty look he gave me made it even worse. I cringed inside.

“I don’t see how that is any of your business,” he said coldly, while staring at me.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.