Family Jewels: Rose Gardner Investigations #1 by Denise Grover Swank

Author:Denise Grover Swank [Swank, Denise Grover]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781939996466
Publisher: DGS
Published: 2016-11-28T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 15

I wiped sweat from my forehead with the back of my hand. Our cool spell was definitely over.

“You still miss diggin’ in the dirt?” Bruce Wayne asked with a chuckle.

I rested my foot on my shovel and leaned my shoulder into the handle. “Would you believe it if I said yes?”

He grinned. “Ain’t that how we got started in the first place?”

“True enough.” I glanced over at the other man on Bruce Wayne’s crew. “Sean’s a hard worker.”

“He is, but his buddy? Not so much. This is the third time he’s called in sick in three weeks, and he’s been slackin’ when he’s here. I think I’m gonna have to let him go.”

I nodded. “It’s your crew, Bruce Wayne. I trust your judgment. I’ll fill in to help you as much as I can until you find someone else.”

“Thanks.”

My phone began to vibrate in my pocket. I tugged off my glove and pulled my phone out. I didn’t recognize the number, but I regularly gave my number out to clients.

I swiped to answer. “Hello?”

“I need to talk to you,” a woman said. She sounded scared.

I recognized her voice. Thank goodness. The bartender had given her the note after all. “Trixie?”

“I need to tell you about Rayna. Will you meet me?”

I scanned the work site. We’d been working hard for several hours. Bruce Wayne and Sean could easily finish on their own. “Okay. When and where?”

“One Eyed Joes. In thirty minutes.” Then she hung up.

Crap. That wouldn’t give me time to clean up.

“Bruce Wayne, I have to—”

“Go,” he said. “We can finish up just fine.” He hesitated. “Before I forget, Anna wants you and Neely Kate to come over for dinner next week. To celebrate our new house together.”

I grinned. “Domestication suits you, Bruce Wayne.”

A blush tinged his face.

When I got into the truck, I called Neely Kate. “I need you to meet me at One Eyed Joes in twenty-five minutes.”

“What happened on the job site that’s pushed you into day drinking?” she asked.

Actually, it was our other “job” that had done that. “Trixie called me and asked me to meet her there.”

“You’re kidding.”

“She said she needs to tell me something about Rayna.”

“Okay,” she said. “See you there.”

I hung up and tried to think of where I could go to clean up a little before heading to the bar. Then it hit me. Violet’s house—the house I’d lived in for twenty-four years until I’d moved into the farm last November.

The house was dark and cool when I let myself in. I’d been checking on it a couple of times a week since she’d left for Houston, but I never stayed long. Violet and I had a complicated relationship; this house and I, even more so. My momma, or at least the woman I’d thought was my momma, had tormented me. Now I knew it wasn’t just my visions that had made her hate me—she’d likely seen me as a reflection of my birth momma, the woman her husband had briefly left her for.

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