Nacho Average Murder by Maddie Day

Author:Maddie Day
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2020-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 31

Once again I found myself with an unscheduled evening and ants in my pants. When I got back to the B-and-B, the kitchen was dark, so hanging out with Carmen and her mom wasn’t going to happen. I paced around my room for a few minutes. I texted Alana, but she replied she was busy with her parents. Jason didn’t respond when I pinged him. I wrote to Liz and asked if she wanted to go visit Ceci’s farm in the morning and she didn’t return a text, either. Was this what my life had come to? Back in the place where I’d grown up and nobody to hang out with? I wasn’t about to contact Zoe after the way she’d reacted to me.

“Think creatively, Jordan,” I scolded myself. I snapped my fingers. I could go to the movies, something I never made time for at home. I didn’t mind seeing movies alone. I wouldn’t be talking to anyone during a film, anyway. I checked the local listings. An art theater downtown had a screening of an indie flick I’d heard about, and it started in twenty minutes. Good. I grabbed my bag and sweater and headed back downstairs.

After about ten minutes I noticed headlights close behind me. They were super bright and positioned higher than mine, like it was an SUV or another vehicle larger than my little economy rental. Somebody was hot to trot, but there was nowhere for them to pass me on the city street until I pulled into the theater’s parking lot. I made a circuit but groaned to find it full. I blew out a breath and headed back onto the street. Two blocks farther, around the corner, and another block and a half down, I finally found a place at the curb. I locked the rental and hurried back toward the main drag. The moon was ascending, blood orange from the smoke that still filled the air.

Halfway down the dark block the hairs on the back of my neck rose, my Spidey sense on high alert. Was someone following me? Someone unhappy I’d been asking questions about Agrosafe? Someone threatened I was looking into Paul’s and my mom’s deaths? I took a quick glance around but didn’t see anyone. I slid my phone out of my bag and swiped it awake in case I had to dial a quick 911. I strode as fast as I could short of jogging and heaved a deep sigh of relief when I hit the well-lit thoroughfare.

The film was only sparsely attended. My bucket of popcorn—which passed for dinner, since I hadn’t finished my appetizers after the lecture—and I had the second row all to ourselves. I happily lost myself in the big screen for the next hundred minutes.

But when I emerged onto the street, it was nearly ten o’clock. The moon was higher and barely any shade of orange at all. The street was nearly deserted. The few other moviegoers turned left toward the parking lot.

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