by Diana Orgain | Jun 13, 2021 | Love or Money, Sneak Peek, Uncategorized
Did you miss part one of Chapter One? From A Second Chance at Murder Chapter One Continued… He nodded slowly and then he sagged like a deflated balloon. “My sister’s not in our tent,” he confessed. “I came out to find her. She’s got a bad habit of going off on her own and I want to win this stupid contest. If I don’t get control of her, I can kiss this thing good-bye.” A nervous energy wiggled through my stomach. His sister was missing and so was Scott. Okay, maybe missing was an overstatement. But he sure as hell wasn’t where he was supposed to be and according to Parker, his sister, Victoria, wasn’t, either. I picked up my phone. “Where do you think she skulked off to?” He shrugged. “I was going to check the outhouse. She’s probably not there though, because she would have come back by now, right?” I remained silent. Silence was usually the best way to get informa‐ tion out of people. At least that’s what they’d taught us at the police academy. “Anyway,” Parker continued. “I figured I’d walk down the trail to the restrooms, then check the path that goes to the mountain stream. It’d be just the kind of thing she’d do alone.” My stomach churned as I considered that perhaps she wasn’t alone. A midnight stroll to the mountain stream would be right up Scott’s alley, too. I flashed my light against the dark soil, illuminating a small circle. “Let’s get a lantern,” I said. “If we’re going down to the river, we’ll need more light than this.” Parker...
