Curse Strings by Rebecca Regnier

Author:Rebecca Regnier [Regnier, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2019-09-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

I had a lot to convey to Mario, I had to find out who, besides Tatum had reason to kill Tommy Strayhorn. Oh, and I needed lunch meat, bread, and about a gazillion gallons of milk. It weighed on me a little that I hadn’t been much of a mother to my boys since they got back.

It also weighed on me a lot that I hadn’t called my Aunt Dorothy. I remedied that on the way to The Frog Toe.

“Hey Aunt Dot.”

“Hello dear.”

“How are you doing?” It was a question that didn’t have a good answer, but it was all I had to offer.

“Oh, well, I'm trying to be strong for Maxine.” Her voice was bright, but Frances had been in Dorothy’s life her whole life. And that was several lifetimes long.

“Who’s being strong for you?”

“Oh, the whole coven dear, that’s how it works. I think you know that by now.”

“Yes.”

“You do the things you need to do; you find who really killed that Tommy person, you keep Alvarado from getting too much power. Get all the word out about Beltane. All those things.”

“But you need me too.”

“An essential element of you, me, and most formidable women I know, is that they want to be all things to all people. That is folly. Gloria Steinem said, do what you can uniquely do.”

“Yes, Aunt Dot. So, you and the boys have been conspiring to get them here to Widow’s Bay. In all the commotion, I’d forgotten to give you trouble about that.”

“Why would you give me a whit of trouble? Those boys are an excellent addition to Widow’s Bay. And they have something extra. Don’t you doubt it for a moment, they belong here.”

“A firefighter and a ski whatever? That’s not what their Dad and I planned for their lives.”

“Life plans are quite a waste of time, and what was it your mother planned for you to do?”

“Hospital administration.”

“Right, now aren’t you glad you had your own ideas? Just like the boys do?”

“Yes.” I realized that Aunt Dorothy now, in her old age, had her family around her in Widow’s Bay.

“Now go do what you can uniquely do. Be The Liaison for the Yooper Naturals and report on who really killed Tommy Hornface.”

“Strayhorn.”

“Whatever.”

My phone buzzed again and this time it was the boss I had ditched.

“Your update was good on the McGowen case. What else today?” I’d written a short and to the point bond denied story. There wasn’t much to tell. Which was of no help to Tatum.

“Meet me on Main. I have an idea.”

“Got it.”

Garrett and I met up at the end of Main. The disheveled aspect struck me again. This wasn’t the well put together boss who’d I’d interviewed with or who’d showed up to help yesterday.

But I forged ahead, despite what we’d seen in the vision, there was still a murder to solve.

“Okay, we’re going to hit the pavement.”

“About what?”

“I don’t know really, but there has to be someone who saw something, there has to be something more than Tommy Strayhorn dead out of nowhere.

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