Pale Moon (Pt. Redwood Book 3) by Amanda J. Clay

Author:Amanda J. Clay [Clay, Amanda J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Florence & Reynolds
Published: 2022-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

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I was practically shaking when I got back home. My mind was reeling. This made no sense. My dad was working for Stanford Gates? Tabby’s dad. Vicky’s grandpa. The strings of the tangled web kept spiraling and twisting. My mind frantically tried to untangle it all. And maybe it wouldn’t have been strange for my dad to have done odd jobs back in the day, but why would Stanford be searching for him now in some connection to Richard’s murder? I was missing some very big piece here.

What did I actually know about Tabby’s family? I vaguely remembered Tabby’s mom from church or the occasional school function. Stanford was supposedly always traveling out of town on business. Mrs. Gates—Marnie I think her name was—was always present and polished, not a hair out of place. But now that I thought back on it with the clarity of adult vision, I could see that she had the same sort of emptiness in her eyes that my own mother had had. Could Stanford have been abusive the same way my own dad was? Is that what had twisted Tabby’s mind? Had her mother simply turned in on herself, becoming a pretty, empty shell? The same thing had happened to my mom, after all.

I thought of Tabby’s older sister, Megan. I didn’t know her at all. She was much older than us—from Stanford’s first marriage—and out of the picture long before Tabby was even on my radar. But I remember Vicky telling me that her aunt Tabby was weird. That she and her mother’s relationship was strained. And I remember Sean telling me as much as well. Tabby and Megan didn’t have much of a relationship. Why was that? Could Megan see the evil inside her little sister? Or did it predate that? Maybe it had more to do with Ford than it had to do with Tabby. If there was something truly rotten at the core of that family, perhaps Megan distanced herself from it long ago. If things were so bad, though, why was she here now?

I pulled up a new browser. I tried my hand at searching Stanford Gates and Gage Kendrick together. Nothing. I was apparently not a talented detective after all. I should leave it to the pros, yeah, I know. I didn’t exactly have a promising career in law enforcement. I heard footsteps and then the door. I instinctively closed my computer. Sean came around the corner, looking exhausted but happy. It was a nice change now that business had picked up. He didn’t look like he was in a constant state of misery every day.

“You’re home early,” I said.

“Do you want me to leave and come back? Let your lover sneak out the bathroom window?”

“Hmm. Maybe. But the bathroom doesn’t have a window, so it’ll have to be the bedroom window. Or if you just want to turn around and look the other direction, he can just go right out the front door.”

“Nice to see you too, honey.

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