city of dragons 07 - fire and flood by Val St. Crowe

Author:Val St. Crowe [Crowe, Val St.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Punk Rawk Books
Published: 2017-02-10T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

“So,” said Lachlan. “Adam Day has no alibi, and Simon Wells left the prison to go to a mysterious funeral, which may or may not be related to the case.” He was driving the rental car back to his father’s house.

I was in the passenger’s seat. “Doesn’t look good for Adam.”

“No, it doesn’t,” said Lachlan.

“And if Wells has enough clout that he can swing getting out of jail to go to a funeral, maybe it does mean that he’s got some guards in his pocket, and maybe he did get them to let him out of his cell that night so that he could smother Tim.”

“And maybe he killed that Poole guy as well,” said Lachlan. “Same way. On the other hand, maybe he got the magical talisman at the funeral, and he smuggled it back in to the prison that way, and he did the murder with magic. Could be either way.”

“Could be,” I said.

He gripped the steering wheel. “Here’s what we’ll do. Tomorrow, we’ll go and talk to Matt Black, see what we can shake down from him. And we’ll keep digging into Adam. I think I might know some other kids who knew both him and Tim. Maybe they can shine some light on that situation, find us a motive or something.”

“Okay,” I said. “Sounds good. You don’t think we’re being neglectful with Levi Bradley? What if it’s him, and we’re not looking into him much?”

“Yeah, you’re right,” said Lachlan. “We need to get some information on him, if only just to eliminate him. We’ll talk to Zach about that when we ask about Wells and the funeral.”

* * *

The rest of the evening passed uneventfully. Lachlan and I stopped to pick up takeout on the way back to the house to feed everyone. We’d been doing that a lot, but the truth was that no one much felt like grocery shopping or cooking. I knew that Vivica had her hands full with the boys, and Lachlan and I had our hands full with the case. Lachlan wasn’t actually a bad cook. He did his share in the kitchen when it was necessary. I did usually do most of the cooking at home, but that was because I liked cooking.

I had never learned as a kid considering that neither my parents nor my grandparents had any idea how to cook anything. So, I’d never observed anyone cooking. We had servants who did it, and—with the exception of Felicity, who I’d latched onto as a teenager—I’d never spent much time with the servants.

Anyway, when I got married and lived with Alastair, it was mostly the same thing. We didn’t always have staff that came in and cooked all our meals, though. Sometimes, we’d order from someone who would deliver pre-cooked meals that we only had to heat up. Alastair did that a lot because he liked being able to control my portion size. He liked controlling everything.

When I finally got free of Alastair, I decided I wanted to be self-sufficient, and one of the things that a self-sufficient person can do is cook.

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