Fortune and Pride by Stephen John

Author:Stephen John
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Jana DeLeon, cozy mystery, fiction, humor, murder msytery, detective
Publisher: Miss Fortune World
Published: 2019-01-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

At six a.m. I checked my email. Harrison was in Washington D.C. so it was nine o’clock there. He had already responded to my email. Tons of information poured in as email attachments. I took a picture of his responses with my phone.

I called Carter. He answered on the second ring. His sounded as if he’d been up for a while.

“Carter,” I said. “How is the search going for Paul Pride?”

“Well...” he stammered, “I’m not where I thought I’d be but I’m working on some things, and...”

“Let’s talk plain, shall we?” I interrupted. “You have nothing, Carter. I know it, and you know it, and now you know I know it. You are still looking for Paul Pride and you have no real leads.”

“That is not the case, Fortune,” he objected. “I have been...”

I made a loud, annoying buzzer noise, not as annoying as the one Simon Cowell uses on America’s Got Talent, but damn annoying, “Wrong answer. Carter, I know.”

“What do you know?” he asked. His tone reflected both concern and annoyance.

“Look, I can help,” I replied. “I didn’t go back to Sinful. I’m still here in Seattle.”

“Fortune, I thought we agreed—”

“To quote a famous man I know well, I didn’t agree to anything. You agreed for both of us and I don’t know what I was thinking.”

“That was different,” he said.

“Look, Carter, I’m not arguing about this. Meet me at seven-thirty at the Biscuit Bitch.”

“The Biscuit what?”

“You heard me. Bring your rental car. See you then, Carter.”

“Fortune...”

I hung up and called Ida Belle.

“How did it go last night?” she asked. “We didn’t hear from you. It worried us.”

“I have much to tell you,” I said.

“That’s good,” Ida Belle replied. “We sat in the parking lot of Dick’s Burgers until nine o’clock. We never saw Paul.”

“I know you didn’t,” I replied. “Are you guys dressed?”

“Yes.”

“Meet me at the Starbucks downstairs in fifteen minutes. I’ll bring you up to speed.”

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