I make my way up the beach, with Elijah just behind me, and find a gold ring in the sand.
“Someone lost a ring.”
Elijah grunts and picks something off the ground. “And a pearl necklace.”
“No way!” I say and rush towards him. But in his hands, to my absolute shock, is my mother’s pearl necklace. I would know it anywhere.
“What is it doing out here?” Devon asks. “I would have thought a thief would have sold it.”
“People steal for lots of reasons,” I say quietly.
Mack nods. “That’s true. But stealing and dumping the goods, that’s not normal.”
“Maybe it’s a kid,” Devon says. “Or someone who didn’t want to get caught.”
“Maybe we should-”
“There’s more,” Devon suddenly says and jogs a few feet away.
We follow him, Danger more than happy to run with us in the sand.
“Another one!” Elijah calls out.
“Where did this all come from?” Mack grumbles as he bends down to pick up a set of keys.
“That’s it! It’s time to stop this thief in their tracks!” Devon growls.
We cross up one of the pathways between the beach and town, leading us on the trail of the thief that has been haunting Sunshine Cove, determined to end this charade today.
Chapter 29
Devon
I’m going to catch this thief. Enough is enough. I stomp up the street, occasionally spotting another piece of something that has been missing. Finding my keys was the icing on the cake. My temper ignites and soars.
I let out a growl.
“Devon, do you know where we are heading?” Elijah hisses, glancing back at Sofia.
Of course, I know where I am heading. I hate it. I don’t want to believe it.
“We can just pretend we found it,” Mack murmurs.
“No, we can’t. We need to know who is doing it. If there is something wrong with one of them, we need to know.”Before anyone else finds out there’s something wrong.
I’m too scared to look behind me. To look at her. She’s going to kill me when she finds out what I’m thinking. I would kill me.
I turn into the yard and see a gold watch in the middle of the lawn.
“Sofia,” I say.
She glares at me. “No. Not until we’ve spoken to them and found out what’s happening. I will not believe it.”
She jogs up to the house and disappears inside.
Elijah comes up to me and glares. “We just gother back; don’t blow it.”
“I’m trying not to, but if Grandma or Grandpa are in trouble, we need to help them, and the trail does lead here. It’s all a little suspicious.”
