Life of Lies by Sharon Sala

Author:Sharon Sala
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2017-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

Twelve

Billie set a sack of groceries on the kitchen counter and was on her way out to get the rest when Sahara and Brendan walked in.

“I’ll grab the rest,” Brendan said. “Where’s Lucy?”

“She got a call. I left her outside in the car for a little privacy.”

Brendan took off out the door to carry in the rest of the groceries and passed Lucy as she was coming into the kitchen carrying the dry cleaning.

“Where should I put this?” Lucy asked.

“Just drape the bags over the back of a kitchen chair,” Billie replied. “I’ll take it all back where it belongs later.”

Lucy did as she was told and then glanced at Sahara.

“Your hair is wet. Is everything okay?”

“Oh, I’m fine,” Sahara said. “Brendan and I were just digging through old stuff and got dirty.”

Billie frowned. “What’s dirty in this house?” she asked.

Sahara laughed. “I told Brendan the dust in Leopold’s office would make you mad.”

“Are you serious? It was that bad?”

“Yes, ma’am. Quite a bit of dust.”

“Strange. I would have thought Leopold would complain. He was always so picky about the housework around here. No matter. I’ll have a word with that cleaning crew, for sure.”

Brendan came back in with the rest of the groceries and set them on the counter.

“It didn’t look like he’d been in his office in a long time,” Sahara told Billie.

Billie’s frown deepened. “What were you looking for?”

Before Sahara could comment, Brendan quickly spoke up.

“Oh, just going through his schedule, stuff like that, trying to figure out if he’d had any meetings scheduled on a planner. I thought it might give us some clues as to who he saw last, if they had any problems...that kind of thing.”

“Oh, that’s smart,” Billie said, then began putting up groceries.

Lucy lost interest in the conversation, and after a quick word to Sahara that she was going up to change, she left the room.

Billie picked up a jug of laundry soap and a package of paper towels and headed for the utility room.

Sahara moved closer to Brendan and then whispered, “Why didn’t you mention what we found?”

“Because right now we don’t know for sure what we found, and the fewer people who know it exists, the better.”

She shrugged. “Okay, but we’re talking about Lucy and my mother. They’re hardly dangerous.”

He didn’t argue the point. “Knowing too much could possibly put them in danger, so I still want it kept between us,” he said.

“Are you going to give the journal to the police?”

“As soon as I figure out what it says. Otherwise, it’s too likely to just lie on some detective’s desk in wait for him to get time to look at it.”

Billie came back in, noticed the two with their heads together and smiled.

At least they’d quit fussing.

She glanced up at the clock. It was already after four. Not a lot of time to get dinner together.

The wind was rising now, rattling shrubbery around the outside of the house. Something was banging around outdoors. She went to the kitchen door and looked out.

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