The Sex On Beach Book Club by Jennifer Apodaca

Author:Jennifer Apodaca
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2007-08-23T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Holly adjusted her seat belt and kept her gaze on the road while her mind tumbled over the night’s events.

“What was that about a Web site?”

She looked over at Wes’s profile as he drove through the night toward her house. “Shot in the dark. Remember Rachel said Cullen asked her to design a Web site?”

He nodded.

“His boat was broken into and his laptop appears to be the only thing missing. Someone wanted that laptop, most likely for what was on it. So I thought maybe Cullen has a Web site and it’s connected.” She couldn’t quite put it together. The pieces of information in her brain just wouldn’t line up in the right order. Biting down on her frustration, she said, “I took a shot to see if I could ruffle Maggie.”

“Didn’t look like it worked.” His jaw tightened. “Doesn’t seem like anything ruffles her.”

She wasn’t so sure about that. “Her left eye twitched.”

“Really?”

She smiled. “Oh yeah, I got to her. But I don’t know why. A Web site—what would Cullen put on a Web site? He wanted to be a shock jock, or that’s what he said to Tanya. What could he put on a Web site? His resumé? No, that wouldn’t make him famous.” She shifted in her seat. “What would make a woman desperate to kill him and steal his computer?”

“Blackmail?”

She frowned as she considered that. “You think he was blackmailing the women? Like what? Threatening to tell Tanya’s husband about their affair? But she would have told me that, I’m sure of it. She wouldn’t have had anything else to lose since her husband already knew she was sleeping with Cullen.”

“He had just seen Tanya the night he was murdered. I doubt he’d had time to blackmail her yet.”

She saw his point. “Okay, then what would he use to blackmail the other women?”

Wes slowly took his eyes from the road and looked at her.

Even in the dark night, she felt his gaze.

Then he said, “Pictures. He could have been taking naked pictures of them, or pictures of them during sex, and threatening to sell them.”

Her heart started pounding. “Like digital pictures on a computer.” She used a digital camera. It was possible. She looked out the front windshield, thinking. Would one of the women kill to stop Cullen from selling the photos or putting them on his Web site? Maybe. “But why kill him in your bookstore?” Was there a connection, or had it just been sheer opportunity?

Wes tapped the finger of his right hand on the steering wheel. “I don’t know, but…” He shifted his glance to the rearview mirror. “Shit.”

Holly twisted around and saw the flashing red and blue lights behind them. “Were you speeding?”

He shook his head and pulled over to the right. The headlights from the police cruiser lit up the interior of Wes’s car as the cruiser pulled up behind him.

“Keep your hands out where the police can see them.” Holly left her purse on the floorboard. Cops were very cautious with traffic stops.

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