Camp Dread: A Blue Wolf Brief (Legion Files Book 1) by Brad Magnarella

Author:Brad Magnarella [Magnarella, Brad]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

10

“I tried to kiss her,” Steve Hanseroff said.

“Robin?” I asked.

Wipers slapped at the heavy rain as he steered us from the campground in his truck. I’d elected to let him drive, and I was escorting him solo so as not to reshuffle the team. There was nothing he could do to me as the Blue Wolf, and that included trying to drive us off the ravine in which he claimed to have dropped the pack.

“Yeah,” he confessed with a shake of his head. “I know she’s young, but we’ve always clicked. And… I don’t know. At the start of the summer, she seemed really into me. I had this crazy notion it could work, and there was this moment by the trash receptacles…” He gave his head another rueful shake. “I misread the situation.”

“She’s nineteen,” I growled. “And you’re married.”

“Yeah, well, things haven’t been so sunny in Paradise,” he said testily. “Maybe you noticed the way she is with me?”

“And you with her. Do you always call her ‘stupid’?”

He looked over at me in amazement. “Is there anything you haven’t seen or heard around here?”

“So why did you hide the pack?”

“After the attempted kiss, I apologized to Robin up and down. Told her it would never happen again, that it wouldn’t impact her employment at the camp in any way whatsoever. I didn’t even ask her not to tell anyone.”

“Big of you,” I muttered.

“But I see her writing in her notebooks all the time, and when she disappeared…”

“You thought if she’d recorded what happened, you’d become a suspect and your wife would find out,” I said. “So you loaded everything potentially incriminating into her backpack and buried it.”

He nodded in admission. “When I heard you guys were coming, I dug it back up. Not just to hide it again,” he added hastily. “I was thinking there could be a clue in one of her notebooks about what happened to her. Yeah, I should’ve thought of that first, but I panicked. Anyway, I found a journal, but it was mostly random thoughts, future plans, that sort of thing. Not a day-by-day account—including what happened with me at the trash containers. I think she has a crush on Luke, though.”

“Your maintenance man?”

“Yeah,” he said a little bitterly.

I remembered his scent around her bed, which still bothered me. “He said he had an alibi.”

“He does,” Steve confirmed. “He took the truck out with Betty. That’s the cook. And no, regardless of my wife’s ravings, Betty had nothing to do with Robin’s disappearance.”

“If there was nothing about you in her journal, why didn’t you turn it over?”

“I couldn’t very well run up to you guys and say, ‘Hey, look what I found!’ without looking guilty as sin.”

He had a point. “What were in the other notebooks?”

“Drawings, poems, stories. I just flipped through them.”

“And you’re telling me everything?” I growled.

“Everything I can think of. If not, just ask more questions and I’ll answer as honestly as I can.”

I watched him until he returned his gaze to the rain-swept road.

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