The Body in the Gravel by Judi Lynn

Author:Judi Lynn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lyrical Press
Published: 2019-05-25T17:16:42+00:00

Chapter 28

Jerod returned an hour later and got busy helping them. “Walker’s going to use Andy’s truck, and Andy’s going to look over the other trucks, just in case another one was tampered with. The drivers couldn’t believe someone had messed with one of their vehicles. And it really riled them that Walker could have been hurt.”

Jazzi leaned on her rake. Her back needed a rest. “They all like Walker, don’t they?”

“He’s saving their jobs, and they know it. Plus, he treats everyone with respect—something new for them.”

Ansel gave the end of the driveway one more pass with his rake before heading to the machine to tamp the last section down. “Did Walker go ahead and call Thane?”

Jerod nodded. “Yup, and Thane invited him to his place for pizza tonight. Walker said he was ready to get away from the job site for a while. Things have been pretty tense since he came back to River Bluffs.”

Jazzi felt a stab of guilt. She’d invited Walker to join her family on Sundays, but it would be easy enough to invite him again during the week. Ansel looked at her face and said, “Thane and I are meeting him on Thursday nights, too, so you don’t need to worry about him. We’re watching out for him.”

She let out a long breath. The poor guy had had nothing but problems since he came home.

Jerod took her rake and carried his and hers to the garage. “You’re not our mother. You don’t have to hold our hands and give us goodies.”

“Does that advice apply to you, too?”

He rubbed the back of his neck. “Come to think of it, mother us all you want.”

Mollified, her thoughts went back to Walker. “I’m glad he’ll spend the evening at Thane’s. He needs a distraction.”

Jerod grinned. “That’s what kids are for. The minute you step in the house, you don’t have time to brood. Besides, the drivers have a theory. They think Darby ticked off the wrong person. They said he kept getting more and more worried about the business and more keyed up about finding a woman to live with. The more he worried, the more he drank. They said he was getting hard to be around.”

“Was he interested in some other woman besides Bea or Haze?” Jazzi asked.

“Earl thought he’d go after any woman who looked his way. If she was with somebody—like a jealous boyfriend—he didn’t seem to care. Some men don’t handle that well.”

Ansel finished tamping and turned off the machine. The sudden silence made Jazzi rub her ears. He picked up the tamper and joined them at the garage. “Let’s eat lunch before we have to work on the cement.”

A good idea. They headed into the house, and George, realizing it was sandwich time, followed them. Walker still hadn’t arrived when they finished eating, so Jerod said, “We might as well get started on the gutters. Maybe we can get one side done before he gets here.”

No such luck. They leaned their long extension ladders against the roof and were cutting the metal sections to fit when Walker showed up.

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