The Scariest Tail (A Wonder Cats Mystery Book 4) by Harper Lin

Author:Harper Lin [Lin, Harper]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Publisher: Harper Lin Books
Published: 2016-02-28T05:00:00+00:00

Butternut

I was a bit relieved that Bea knew where the strange house in Prestwick was. After we piled into Bea’s car that evening after work, we took a nice drive to Prestwick. Thankfully, the café had been slow, and we were able to close up a little early, leaving the sun hanging in the sky for at least another good two hours.

After some Google Maps searches that yielded three different routes and a few complicated turns down the serpentine roads, I couldn’t help but feel a slight case of déjà vu. The fall leaves were still in colorful canopies overhead, and the houses looked even more beautiful this time since I had a chance to really look at them.

When we passed by Darla’s house, I tried to look away, but I caught sight of her standing outside. She was chatting up some guy in a van that had J&J Plumbing stenciled on the side. He was practically falling out of the driver’s side window as she talked and flipped her hair. I kept my mouth shut, but I looked away in disgust, rolling my eyes and wondering how so many guys fell for her babe-in-the-woods act. When I looked in the rearview mirror, I saw Bea looking at me. She smiled and winked at me, and I smiled back.

“Okay, we need to take a left up ahead, then a quick right, and we should be just about there,” Aunt Astrid said, navigating between two maps and a set of handwritten directions she had made for herself.

After a few more minutes, Bea pointed out her window.

“Is that it?” she asked. “I don’t see any numbers, but that looks like a driveway. At least, I think it is. It isn’t a road, right?”

“Well, let’s see. The house next door was 3490 Butternut. We’re looking for what?” Aunt Astrid looked at her notes. “This says 3494.”

“Let’s give it a try,” I said, knowing it was the right place.

Bea turned and headed down the cobblestone driveway, past the For Sale and No Trespassing signs, only to have the journey end at the wrought iron gate I had come to just a few days earlier. From that point on, I was as clueless as the other two Greenstone women. We had no idea what was up ahead.

“You feel that?” I asked as I opened the car door.

“Yeah.” Bea nodded as she climbed out from behind the wheel. “Like someone blasting a boom box or subwoofers on their car.”

“Something is here,” Aunt Astrid said.

I stretched my legs and my back as I looked around.

“Everyone smile. We’re on camera,” I said as casually as possible, motioning in the general direction of a camera at the far corner of the fence and then at one pointed down on the driveway from a tall tree.

“Well, at least we know someone is watching the place,” Aunt Astrid said, looking not only at the camera but past it and through it, trying to see the person who had installed them.

“Maybe,” Bea said.

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