Return To Sender (The Hart Brothers #2) - J. S. Cooper Page 0,26
other brother is trying to make it big in Hollywood, but rather is putting on an act or a front.”
“Oh, hmm. So Wade might be acting like he likes me, when really he couldn’t care less. Like a sociopath? Oh shit, do you think Wade is a sociopath?”
“That’s one way to look at it, but that’s not what I was thinking.” Lucy shook her head. “I’m just saying I think she was alluding to some big lie, some big secret. That adds up to what you heard Wade saying.”
“I know that Wade has a secret though. That tells us nothing.”
“The other thing that she said that I thought was quite interesting was that the Hart’s have blood on their hands…”
“So he’s a murderer?”
“No.” Lucy shook her head, quite adamantly. “If he was a murderer, Beryl would have said. She wouldn’t have let us stay there. I’m pretty sure.” She sounded uncertain.
“Then what else could she have meant?”
“I don’t know.” Lucy shook her head. “And also what does, the seeds can’t be good if the core is bad mean? Are they involved in any sort of farming or food manufacturing?”
“Not that I know of…” I paused. “Well, actually, kind of. They’re helping over countries with their farming practices.” I tried to remember exactly what they were doing. “I’d have to check.”
“Yeah, we can maybe check at the library. Why don’t you try and give Gordon a call. I think we need to talk to him.”
“Okay,” I pulled my phone out and called him, but the call went directly to voice mail. “I think his phone is off. Let me text him and ask him to call me.” I shot off a quick text and then took a sip of my coffee. Lucy and I just stared at each other for a few seconds before we before just shook our heads. We were smack dab in the middle of a mystery and neither one of us had any idea just what we were involved in.
Chapter 10
“Jolene just loves these walks. She’s going to miss all this dirt when we get back to the city.” Lucy’s voice was muffled as she positioned her camera in front of her and took shots of the woods as we walked.
“I’m sure she will get used to it and it’s not like she doesn’t go to Central Park and Prospect Park, she’s not living in a concrete jungle, just yet.”
“Thank God that we have that green space.” Lucy was clicking away furiously as we walked and I was just enjoying the beauty of the late afternoon sky and weather. I stared at the tree branches as we walked to see if I could see any birds or animals, but all I’d seen so far was what appeared to be a few lizards slithering away.
“Shall we go this way today?” I asked as we came to a fork in the woods. The path we’d gone on before looked clearer, but I was in an adventurous mood and wanted to take the road less traveled.
“Sure, lead the way.” Lucy followed behind me as we took a step over a fallen tree trunk and Jolene came jumping and running ahead as we changed our direction.
“You never heard back from Gordon right?” Lucy asked as we made our way through the forest.
“Not a thing, but I also think he knows I’m suspicious and annoyed with him. I might not hear back from him for a while.”
“That’s sad, I’d really hoped he was going to turn out to be a good guy friend for you.”
“Yeah me too. That first night we met in the village, he was so friendly, supportive and nice. I thought that we were at the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Now all I can think is that he was using me.”
“Well, don’t judge him before you know the truth, Savannah, It might not be as bad as we think.”
“Haha, yeah right.” I was about to say something else when I noticed footprints in the dirt to the side of where we were walking. “Do those look like footprints or animal prints to you?” I pointed to the right as I walked over to check them out a little bit closer.
“Footprints.” Lucy said as she came up behind me to survey the marks as well. “Definitely footprints. Looks like three different kinds actually. See the patterns all have different shapes.”
“Hmm, yeah, weird.” I walked back to the main path. “I wonder how recent they are.”