Severed Trust: The Men of the Texas Rangers | Book 4 by Margaret Daley

Author:Margaret Daley [Daley, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2013-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

Lexie parked around the corner from Kelly’s house and snuck into the backyard. Kelly was home. She’d seen her through the kitchen window. Her mother’s car was in the driveway. If she was going to speak to Kelly, she had to now and then get back home before Mom returned from the grocery store.

One way or another, I’m getting to the bottom of this.

Keeping an eye on the back, she crept closer to the house and the tree she’d have to climb to get to Kelly’s bedroom window. She wasn’t going to ring the doorbell and have Kelly’s mom send her home. Her friend—and she still thought of her that way—rarely locked her window so Lexie could climb inside and wait for Kelly to come upstairs.

Breathing hard, Lexie reached the limb where she could shimmy out to where it brushed up against the roof of the back porch. She knew Kelly got in and out of her house this way, but she’d never done it. Looking down at the yard twenty or thirty feet below scared Lexie. She didn’t like heights. The ground swayed or she did. Either way, she clutched the branch and clung to it.

Maybe if she inched along like a worm, she could make the five or six feet to the porch. She tried but scraped her knee on a broken twig.

Not far. Keep going. I didn’t come all this way for nothing. I want answers. I want my friend back.

When she reached the thirty degree slanted roof, she dug her fingernails into the wood and swung carefully around to drop a couple of feet onto the shingles. Her heartbeat thundered in her ears like cymbals clashing against her skull. Her legs dangled in the air for a moment before she scooched farther down and let go. She landed in a crouch to balance herself, hoping the neighbors weren’t looking or the sound of her setting down wasn’t too loud.

How in the world did Kelly do this all the time?

Creeping toward the house, Lexie scanned the area. She reached Kelly’s bedroom and peered through the glass pane. Empty. Lexie tried the window. Unlocked. With a deep inhalation, she eased it up, then crawled inside.

Her pulse still speeding, she knew she would have to rethink how she was going to leave. She couldn’t climb back down the elm. Maybe Kelly would help her sneak out of the house.

She crossed to the door then cracked it open slightly and listened. Silence. She glanced back at the bed and decided to sit and wait. Kelly preferred hanging out in her room. She’d come upstairs soon.

Lexie took a seat, leaning against the headboard and stretching out her legs.

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