Hurricane Bay & a Man Worth Remembering by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-01-17T15:32:58+00:00

Chapter 15

As Kelsey walked back through the apartment, she heard Nate, Larry and Cindy discussing Andy Latham and wondering why he was so convinced that one of them was throwing dead fish on his property. They were clustered together in the living room, and had moved on from pizza and beer to coffee and Oreos.

“Is Gary Hansen going to do anything?” Larry asked her, stretching to get a kink out of his neck.

“Yes, he’s going to try to pick him up, and he can probably hold him for about twenty-four hours, but he can’t really keep him unless we can come up with something on him. By the way, Jorge and Dane are back.”

The announcement was unnecessary, because by that time the group could clearly see Jorge and Dane walking in behind her.

“Did you eat all the pizza?” Jorge asked.

“No, the leftovers are in the refrigerator,” Cindy said. “Want me to heat it up for you?”

“I can manage,” Dane said.

“Did you two duke it out or something?” Nate asked.

Kelsey went to the bedroom and closed the door behind her. They could figure it out between themselves, she decided. Whatever was going on, Dane and Jorge had decided not to tell her.

She sat down again in front of the drawer where she had been digging through Sheila’s things. She separated out the papers she had already gone over and started leafing through some of the others. She came to a picture that looked as if it had been drawn by a small child. It had been, of course. Sheila’s name was scrawled at the bottom right.

The drawing was done with the simple strokes of a grade school art class. Arms and legs were little more than sticks.

What was disturbing was that the picture, despite its simplistic form, was very real. It depicted a man and a child, his arm around the little girl. Not around her shoulders or her waist. Lower. His smile was little more than a slash of color, and yet it captured a strange sense of evil. The girl was clearly afraid of the man. Studying the crude crayon drawing, Kelsey bit her lip. She wondered if anything she was seeing could prove that Andy Latham had been a child molester.

She doubted that either Sheila’s diary or her old drawing would be enough in a court of law, not without Sheila here to do something about it. Gary Hansen knew just as well as they did that Andy Latham should be locked up, but like he had said, he didn’t make the laws, he just upheld them.

She stashed the picture, the rest of the papers and Sheila’s diary in an overnight bag and grabbed a few more things. She walked back out to the living room with the bag packed.

“What’s that?” Larry asked in surprise, an Oreo halfway to his lips.

Dane was seated in the armchair next to the sofa. He had a large coffee cup in his hands. He looked at Kelsey over the rim of it and replied to Larry.

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