Paws-Itively Guilty by Cindy Keen Reynders

Author:Cindy Keen Reynders [Reynders, Cindy Keen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-60542-922-9
Publisher: Medallion Media Group
Published: 2008-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Lexie rolled down the car window, breathing fresh summer air as she and Lucy tooled along the highway toward Jackson Hole. Wildflowers blazed across the fields and meadows. Groves of aspen and pine trees stood brilliant against the sky, their branches outlined against clear blue speckled with wispy clouds. In the distance, the Teton Mountains rose majestically with their jagged outline of rocky proportions.

Lexie recalled that as a kid she’d thought the range looked like they’d been cut out of cardboard. The French trappers who originally explored them had an even stranger idea of what they looked like. The word teton, in French, meant a specific part of a woman’s anatomy. The part that she had excess of and men stared at way too much. Apparently, those French guys had stayed too long in the wilderness.

Lexie realized it was too quiet in the car. “What’s wrong?” she asked Lucy. “You haven’t said a word since I picked you up.”

“I think there’s someone following us,” she blurted, then curled her lips into a typical Sister Lucy pout.

Lexie checked the rearview mirror, watching the dark truck behind them. “It’s been behind us since we left Moose Creek Junction,” Lexie said. “Let’s keep an eye on it.”

Lucy nodded. “I have a bad feeling about coming up here, Lexie. I think we should just leave Fred alone. It’s really none of our business if he and Eleni were having an affair.”

Lexie raised her brows at Lucy, but said nothing. Her sister, the famous town gossip, didn’t want to dish dirt? Hard to believe.

“We’re not just up here to get the scoop on Fred and Eleni,” Lexie reminded Lucy. “We need to decide if we think he’s capable of murdering her.”

Lucy pressed her lips into a firm line. “It’s dangerous for us to be snooping around. Like that truck behind us. What if they’re following us?”

Lexie glanced in her rearview mirror again. “It could just be a coincidence the truck’s traveling this way. Don’t get wiggy on me.”

Lucy muttered something unintelligible.

“What’s really bothering you?” Lexie asked. “This isn’t like you to be so quiet.”

“For Pete’s sake. If you must know, Carl and Mitzi are trying to have a baby. They aren’t even married yet. It’s an abomination.”

“So, they want to start a family and maybe their timing’s off. Why does that bother you?”

“If they have a child, that means I will be a … a …” Lucy started to cry, large crocodile tears rolling down her plump cheeks. “A grandmother.”

“That will be great,” Lexie said. “You’ll love having a baby to spoil.”

Lucy sniffled, her expression forlorn. “That means I’ll be old. Really old. It seems like yesterday I was young and dancing up a storm with Otis.” She gave a deep, reflective sigh. “He used to call me the queen of the disco floor.”

Lexie considered that for a moment. It was beyond her to imagine Otis strutting like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. In fact, it was beyond her to think of him even having hair.

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