Whispering Walls & Murder by Jenna St James

Author:Jenna St James [James, Jenna St]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1587863553
Published: 2020-04-29T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

The Saddler’s front door had barely closed before I had my cell phone out and dialed Mike’s number. No way was I letting him find out we went to question the Saddlers from Ella Saddler herself.

“Hey, bride-to-be,” Mike said jovially. “What up? I’m almost done here at the station. Thought I’d head over to Gone with the Whiskey in about fifteen.”

“Well, you might need to make it forty-five minutes,” I said. “And please remember how much I love you, but more importantly, how much you love me.” I quickly filled him in on talking with the Saddlers about David’s death and about the important information Ella had relayed. “She should be calling you any—”

“That’s my desk line,” Mike said. “I need to take this. We will discuss this later.”

“Love you.” I hung up before he could say anything else.

“You in trouble?” Heidi asked as she buckled her seatbelt.

I shrugged. “Probably. But it’s not like it can be a surprise after all this time.”

Bridget laughed. “You say that a lot, Jaycee.”

I flipped on my lights and pulled out of the driveway. I hated how it got dark so early now. It was really my only complaint…the weather was still nearly perfect, just a light sweater or jacket needed. But the darkness by five-thirty nearly drove me batty.

In less than ten minutes we were back at Gone with the Whiskey. It was a pretty steady crowd for a Thursday evening. Even more shocking was the fact Gramps was behind the bar and not Mom.

“What’re you doing here?” I asked, breaking away from Heidi and Bridget. “Not only is your shift here done, but I thought you were hanging out at your new office?”

“It didn’t take long,” Gramps said. “And then when I drove by here and didn’t see your Jeep, I figured I better stop in and help out.”

I almost rolled my eyes at his little dig…but since I didn’t want to get a public tongue lashing, I managed to refrain. Instead, I hurried behind the counter, dropped off my purse, tied an apron around my waist, picked up my pad, and dashed off to see to customers.

In the middle of dropping off orders, the front door opened and Jax and Trevor strolled in holding hands. With a wave to me, Jax steered them both over to where Mom, Tillie, Heidi, and Bridget already sat nursing drinks. Once my drinks were delivered to customers, I walked over and sat on the arm of Mom’s chair.

“We learned a lot tonight,” I said. “I’ll run through it quickly because I’m expecting Mike any minute.”

Mom picked up her notepad and clicked her pen. “Ready.”

“First and foremost,” I said, “Jayla says David never made it to her house Saturday night.”

“That’s huge,” Tillie said.

“And after speaking with David’s parents,” I continued, “I really think the falling out between Manny and Logan is significant somehow.”

“How so?” Jax asked.

“Take the timeline of the three male friends a month before school gets out and they graduate. They are basically inseparable.

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