The Indigo Brothers Trilogy 01-Indigo Fire by McKeehan Vickie

Author:McKeehan, Vickie [McKeehan, Vickie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Missing Persons, Missing Family, Mystery, Psychological Suspense, Suspense, USA
Publisher: Beachdevils Press
Published: 2016-02-14T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

By midday, Tessa sat in the passenger seat of Raine’s vintage Fiat roadster speeding down the Overseas Highway. Raine didn’t seem overly concerned about clipping along fifteen over the limit.

So far, they’d driven through town without a word exchanged between them. Instead of talking, Raine had cranked up the music—a Death Port CD blared from the speakers.

The minute they’d left the marina Raine had used the alternative rock to avoid any attempt at conversation.

The reason didn’t escape Tessa. Raine’s mood had gone south since spending the better part of her morning around Mitch. After four hours of playing nice, she’d grown downright sullen. Tessa knew it was all on her. “Look, I’m sorry I made you go. Obviously you don’t like being anywhere near the man, even plastering on a fake smile for Livvy’s benefit.”

“Ha, that’s how much you know,” Raine shouted over the rock band. “We got along great, like two old foes afraid to talk to each other for fear of pissing each other off and creating a scene. We wouldn’t want to create a scene, now would we?”

Raine finally reached over and adjusted the volume. “It isn’t your fault. I should’ve showed up on Sunday. I purposely avoided the damn thing knowing I’d see him, which is silly because it’s ancient history.”

“History has a way of repeating itself with very little effort,” Tessa warned.

“No chance of that. I may not be the smartest person in the room, but I’m a grown woman now. I’m able to recognize a man who has no intentions of ever settling down in Indigo Key, a place where I have deep roots. How about we talk about something else?”

“Sure. This is a cute car.”

Raine snorted out a laugh. “It’s a piece of crap and doesn’t run half the time. But it belonged to Danny, which means I haven’t been able to work up enough of a reason to part with it. Every time I try to write out an ad for the classifieds to put it up for sale, I just can’t bear to complete the online post and face the prospect of letting it go. So, like a sentimental idiot, I keep it around as a reminder that Danny worked himself silly fixing this old heap up. I ought to hunt down Hudley Slocum, the guy who unloaded it on him.”

“Why don’t you?” Tessa wanted to know.

“Because it’s been a decade ago. Lots of water under the old bridge since that transaction went down.”

“It’s sweet that you hang onto Danny’s car like this. I wonder if I’ll…” Tessa’s voice hitched before trailing off. “I can’t think like that yet. I have to believe Ryan’s okay, that he’s out there somewhere. But I’m not stupid. I know he’d never walk away from the business he’d worked so hard to get off the ground. He wouldn’t disappear like this on his own.”

Raine took a deep breath. “I hear ya. For what it’s worth, I think something bad’s happened to Livvy and the kids.

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