“It’s only something little.”
“I’ve heard that before.Well, go ahead.Tell me what you want.”
Barbara took her sister’s apple out of her hand.“I’d like you to call your friend, Shania.”
Katie frowned as Barbara took an enormous bite out of her piece of fruit.“Why?”
“I need to know where a woman called Anne Edwards has gone.”
“And you think she’ll be able to tell you?”
“If Anne has a bank account with the bank Shania works for, she’ll be able to see where she’s spent her money.It’s important.”
“How important?”
“Life and death important.”
Katie’s frown deepened.
“I’ll cook dinner on Wednesday and Thursday night, and make breakfast for our guests for the rest of the week.”
Katie grabbed her apple off Barbara.“I’ll call her, but I’m not promising anything.What you’re asking her to do is illegal.”
“I know.”
“I just hope this is worth all the trouble we could get into.”
So did Barbara.
AT SIX O’CLOCKthe following morning, Theo was running on a trail above Flathead Lake with Ethan.With the half-marathon only a few weeks away, they needed every training session they could manage.
“Any news about the funding?”Ethan asked.
“Not yet.I mailed the last of the applications yesterday.”
“Do you need some money to keep you going?”
Theo managed a half-strangled laugh.“You’re getting married.You’ll need every dollar you’ve saved.”
“We haven’t set a date yet.Besides, we don’t want anything fancy.”
“I’ve heard that before.”
Ethan grinned.“You haven’t answered my question.”
Theo jumped over a log lying across the trail.“Thanks for the offer, but I don’t need any money.”
“Are you sure?”
“Positive.If anything changes, I’ll let you know.”Theo checked his heart rate on his watch.Considering they’d been talking for most of the run, he was happy with the reading.
Over the next ten minutes, they kept a steady pace, throwing in a few sprints to make life more interesting.
“Top of the hill.”
Theo looked at where his friend was pointing.“You’re joking.”
Without a backward glance, Ethan tore ahead of him, yelling, “You snooze, you lose.”
