Homicide on the Hunt by Stacey Alabaster

Author:Stacey Alabaster [Alabaster, Stacey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2018-09-07T23:00:00+00:00

Matt hadn’t spoken a word to me in almost ten minutes.

“It was strategy,” I hissed at him, keeping my voice down as we headed toward the construction site, so that Anna couldn’t hear us. It was kind of like we were arguing about our rebellious daughter and what we were going to do with her, and I didn’t want her to get her feelings hurt. This had nothing to do with her, it wasn’t personal. It was between her father and I. “Anna had the real crab shell clue. We never would have known to go to the new mall if we hadn’t teamed up with her.”

“We would have figured it out.” He was still stomping full steam ahead and refusing to look at me.

I decided to play the guilt card. I stopped and stared up at Matt and asked him to stop. “If you had been guarding the clue properly the last time, Alyson could never have switched it and we never would have gotten so far behind.”

He crossed his arms. “That is really not fair, Claire.”

I actually thought it was a pretty good point now that I had come up with it. Pretty hard to argue with as well.

“Come on, Matt, be a good sport. This race is supposed to be fun.” Supposed to be. It was never supposed to be a matter of life and death with best friend pitted against best friend and every relationship in my life tested and stretched till breaking point.

Fun.

Matt was starting to relent, but he still had concerns. “We’ll be disqualified if we cross the finish line with three people…”

Behind us, Anna had found the next bucket and the next clue. She called out to us and waved it in the air.

“We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it,” I said, keen to get going. “Listen, Matt, if you really have that big a problem with it then, well, you can call it quits and Anna and I can be a team on our own.” I was willing to go where the clues were. So far, Anna had been a little star at finding them. Better than Matt had ever been.

Not that I actually wanted Matt to drop out. I wanted us to continue to be a trio. But if I absolutely had to make a choice…

For a moment, I thought he was going to call my bluff on that little ultimatum and actually go home to bed, but there was no way a Foulkes sibling was going to drop out of the race just because they had to break a rule. I knew that only too well. He just huffed and puffed for a moment and then returned to Anna to look at the next clue.

“…we’ll wave you in,” I heard Anna reading out loud, and I smiled at them both like a proud mum as I reached them.

“I hope you know what you’re up to, Claire Elizabeth,” Matt whispered to me as we started to make our way from the site.

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