Will Travel for Trouble Series Boxed Set by Minnie Crockwell

Author:Minnie Crockwell [Crockwell, Minnie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Minnie Crockwell
Published: 2015-02-04T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Josh picked me up in a dark SUV and took me to a restaurant on the other side of the lake that served a wonderful salad. We sat out on the deck and enjoyed the lake as the sun set, sending a golden streak across the water. Thankfully, I couldn’t see the cliffs from here.

I had dressed casually in slacks and a print cotton top, hoping that no one would take me for Josh’s mother. Out of uniform, he was just as good looking in jeans and a light-blue cotton shirt.

“How was the rest of your day yesterday?” he asked. “Not too stressful, I hope.”

“You might face that kind of thing more than I do, but I’ll admit I was pretty stressed out.”

“I’m sorry,” he said. He gave me a charming white-toothed smile.

Although I knew Ben was usually with me, I hoped he was distracted by something else. Maybe he had stayed near the RV and not accompanied us. I did know he could control that if he wanted. If and when the day came that I fell in love with a living person, I wasn’t sure what we would do. I didn’t think I could bear to lose Ben.

While I wanted to blurt out all the information I’d learned that day, I held back. The police hardly needed an interfering amateur sleuth/busybody offering up tidbits of misleading information.

“So, how long have you been a deputy?” I asked over my salad.

“Oh, about two years. I was in the Army before that, in Afghanistan.”

I stopped short of rolling my eyes, but my heart pounded. I stared at him. Surely not!

“Oh, really?” I said more as a stalling technique while I played with and discarded a million questions.

“Yeah,” he said, offering nothing further. He asked me questions about traveling, the RV, my boring life in general, and it was fully ten minutes before I could steer the conversation back to Afghanistan.

“So, Afghanistan, huh?”

“Yeah, I don’t talk about it much though.” If he wanted me to take the hint, too bad. I pondered how best to ask him if he had known Sean before yesterday, or if he knew Scott. He hadn’t mentioned he knew Jason, so maybe this was all a coincidence. Plenty of men and women had spent time in Afghanistan.

“Someone told me that Sean was in Afghanistan? You know? The guy who works in the Sunny Lake RV Park office?”

Josh nodded and sipped his water. “Yes. I’ve known Sean for years.”

“Oh, I didn’t know that!” I exclaimed. “You didn’t seem like you knew each other when you and Deputy Kline were interviewing him.”

“Sam Kline knows him too. Sam’s son was killed in Afghanistan. They were in the same unit. In fact, we were all in the same unit.”

My heart pounded in my ears. All of them? Josh, Scott, Sean, Deputy Kline’s son, and the victim, Jason Strait?

“Did you know the victim, Jason Strait?”

Josh shifted his eyes toward the lake. “Yup. I’m not surprised he ended up dead at the bottom of a cliff.

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