The Piper Harris Mysteries: Volumes 1–3 by Ray Deany

Author:Ray, Deany [Ray, Deany]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-08-13T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“This is such a dumb plan,” I said.

“Nonsense,” Edie said. “This will work.”

It was about 5:00 p.m. and I was sitting at Edie’s table in her dining corner and eating peach pie. Edie poured some more coffee.

“Whoa, whoa, that’s enough,” I said. “The paintball game this morning already got me hopped up.”

Edie took her seat next to me and dug into her own piece of pie, while she was staring at Lloyd’s phone on the table.

“When did she say she’ll be here?” I asked.

“In the afternoon,” Edie said.

“No exact time?”

Edie shook her head. “No. I didn’t want to seem too official, so I didn’t push for an exact time.”

I had to admit, she did good with that.

“And why am I here exactly?” I asked. “Is that also part of the master plan?”

“You’re here in case we need a diversion,” Edie said, like that was the most normal thing.

Oh, goody.

“So I’m supposed to wing it if we need a diversion?” I asked.

“Yeah, I think you’re good like that,” Edie said.

About twenty minutes later we heard a roaring car outside. And about one minute later the doorbell rang. That got me thinking for the first time since I'd arrived at the retirement complex in Bitter End—why was everyone here knocking on the door instead of using the doorbell? Was this a generational thing too?

Edie opened the door and Samantha Braveheart stepped inside. She was working at Ryker’s PI firm, and according to Edie, she just made associate.

I'd only seen her once from afar shortly after moving here. Her dress code was grunge-anime movie. She was two inches shorter than me, so about five foot five. She had short dark-pink hair, and wore black-rimmed glasses. She wore a white T-shirt and plaid cargo pants, combined with black Chucks and a camouflage backpack. Geeky nerd was the best way to describe her. So if she really could hack a phone, then she definitely dressed the part.

Edie seemed to like her a lot, but I was curious about my own opinion of her. I knew I had to keep my guard up and even higher than usual, since she was about my age and worked in the investigative field, making her sharper than the senior community residents.

How could this be our luck, Gran’s and mine? Of all the locations in the country, we had to land in a place where we had to deal with a private investigator, a former Navy Seal, and now a technology buff. We were so close to so many people who could sniff out our real identities. This had just become so ridiculous.

Edie was sure Samantha could help us out with Lloyd’s phone. I pointed out the obvious: why would she help us if she was working alongside Ryker? She would probably not be doing anything felonious either. Edie replied we didn’t have to tell her it was Lloyd’s phone, and she had a plan for that. I told Edie that if we got caught, I would deny everything and blame it on her.

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