Seriously Dead by Maddie James

Author:Maddie James
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sand Dune Books

Chapter Six

Where the hell did all the money go?

Don’s construction business was lucrative. He’d worked hard over the years to build it with his childhood friend, Tom Purdy. For years, they’d operated side-by-side without incident—they liked each other that much—and had landed some very large housing contracts together. Molly’s family had enjoyed living off that income for many years.

She’d always thought of Don as a simple country boy who worked hard and played harder, even though he wasn’t. He was more complicated than that. By the time they’d met—she was eighteen and he was twenty-one—he had polished that down-home personality to a T. But while he enjoyed pulling off that country boy persona—the beer drinking, truck racing, gun toting redneck—he had grown up quite the opposite.

His family had money.

Both his parents were killed in a small plane crash when he was twelve. His only living relative was his mother’s brother, who lived outside Baton Rouge, and who took him in after the accident. Don was raised by a man who hunted, fished, farmed, and drank a lot of beer. He was carefree and unencumbered and Don’s teen years were pretty much the same.

Rumor had it his parents left him money, but Don never pursued it. His uncle didn’t think it amounted to much. His parents had been rich, he’d told Don, but they were also up to their eyeballs in debt, and when the estate was settled, there was little left. Once the construction business took off, Don said he didn’t need it. That he’d make his own way in the world.

And he did.

Until he didn’t.

As Molly sat at Gran’s dining room table, surrounded by file folders and boxes of papers and old mail, she tried to make sense of it all. She’d pored over files and financials the past couple of days, trying to find any evidence of shady dealings. She’d work through the weekend, too, getting things organized for Brody—easier for them both to make some sense of this mess.

Sighing, she looked up from her work and gazed out the window. Brody. Wow. He had some sort of intense magnetic power over her, that was for sure. Despite the warnings from Don, she was looking forward to seeing him again.

Obviously, that wouldn’t be until Monday. He was working on the other case, like he’d said. Marla and Mitzi were also AWOL. Marla had two days of mandatory teacher training in Shreveport. Mitzi ran off to where Ken was working in Texas yesterday and planned to stay the weekend. Molly figured they needed sexy time that didn’t involve a computer.

It was Friday, so that gave her two more days of work over the weekend—on her own—to get her theories rounded up and her ducks in a row. There’d be no day camp for the kids, so she’d have to work around them.

Drumming her fingers on the cherry tabletop, she thought for a second, then picked up her phone and scrolled. After a minute, her mother answered.

“Hi, Mom.”

“Molly? How are things going at Grans?”

She sighed.

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