Tied With a Bow and No Place to Go (Tizzy/Ridge Trilogy Book 3) by Ann Everett

Author:Ann Everett [Everett, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ann Everett
Published: 2014-08-21T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Back at home, and happy to be rid of Vienna, Ridge sat next to Tizzy on the porch swing, and watched Gracie play in her sandbox. He enjoyed the backyard this time of year. Shrubs fully leafed, flowers bursting with blooms, and hummingbirds darting from feeder to feeder. The gentle sway of the swing relaxed him. He put his arm around Tizzy and twirled a lock of her hair on his finger.

She rested her head on his shoulder. “What are you thinking about?”

He chuckled. “How this scene is so much more calm than the one in the bar a few hours ago.”

“Sorry. I got carried away. I made a fool of myself.”

“No, you didn’t. Your feistiness is one of the things I love. You felt threatened, so you defended yourself—and your property.”

She lifted her head to look at him, but didn’t say anything, so he said, “I belong to you, so it’s your right to fight off all the sex-crazed women trying to get at me.” He broke into a full laugh.

She poked his shoulder. “All the women? Should I expect more?”

“Oh, yeah. There’s a line of them from Philly to Texas.”

“Now, you’ve gone to lying.”

He tipped her chin up and kissed her. “I tease. I don’t lie. I just wish everyone else was as truthful as I am. If they were, I’d have an easy job.”

“So what now? You’ll search for the tattooed guy?”

“Yes. If you want, tomorrow after church, I thought we’d take Gracie and go to the festival. I can mix business with pleasure. I called Malakoff PD and they sent a man to Justin’s last address and he doesn’t live there anymore. Even if I get his current location, he’s long-gone by now, but I have to start somewhere.”

Gracie came to the porch and held up a mud pie decorated with flowers and leaves. “Is this pretty?”

“That’s awesome, Baby,” Ridge said.

Tizzy pointed to the fence. “Set it on that landscape timber and let it bake in the sun. When it’s done, you can serve Daddy and me a piece.”

Gracie ran toward the sunny spot and Tizzy turned back to Ridge. “Are you leaning more toward Pruett being the number one suspect over the women?”

“For now, he is. According to your mother, he delivered the poison, but someone could have paid him to do that. The guy is innocent if he didn’t know the whiskey was tainted.”

“If that’s true, he can furnish the name of who hired him. So either way, you’ll get your killer.”

“I hope it’s as easy as you make it sound. But I can tell you from experience, it rarely is.”

The following afternoon at two o’clock, Ridge drove to the entry of Maplewood Renaissance Festival. In the second row of the van, Gracie, sound asleep, slumped in her car seat. Synola sat next to her and Jinx sat behind them.

“Oh great. This case is in my head so much, those colored flags flying in the wind remind me of Jay Roy’s Ribbons,” Ridge said.

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