“All I’m saying is this person walks like a chick.” Elvira returned to her chair and clicked on the next photo.
“Hang on.” Dernice stopped her. “Go back.”
Her sister pulled up the previous photo. “I see something.”
Carlita leaned in. “The mystery person’s arm.”
“Keep going. We might get a better angle.”
Elvira clicked through the photos. One…two…three.
“Stop!” Carlita and Dernice yelled in unison.
“Right there.” Dernice tapped the screen. “This, right here, is our first clue.”
Chapter 24
“I’m not seeing it.”
“It looks like a tattoo,” Dernice said. “On their lower right arm.”
Elvira tilted her head, staring sideways at the screen. “The mark three inches above the right wrist?”
“Yeah.”
“It doesn’t look like a tattoo to me.”
Dernice scratched her forehead. “It looks vaguely familiar, like I’ve seen it before.”
“From your motorcycle club?”
“Maybe. Let me ask Luigi.” Dernice fired off a brief text message to her boyfriend, along with a copy of the photo in question.
He replied within seconds.Angel wings.
Dernice:They look familiar.
Luigi:From the Thursday Riding Club?
Dernice:Maybe.
The texts flew back and forth until Luigi signed off, claiming he needed to get back to work.
“Luigi and I are both thinking it might be someone from the bike club.” While she talked, Dernice scrolled through her phone’s photo album until she found the last set of group photos she’d taken, right after Creed’s accident.
“You could be chasing your tail,” Elvira finally said.
“Maybe, but I’m almost positive I’ve seen this tattoo before,” she insisted. “If it’s the one I’m thinking about, the angel wings have a red heart in the center.”
“Even if you figure out who this person was, it doesn’t mean they murdered Sonny Skidz.”
“Who were the other women at the engagement party?” Carlita began sifting through the notes she’d taken. “I must’ve left the party list at home.”
“I have a copy.” Elvira thumbed through a messy pile of papers on her desk. “Here it is. I’ll name everyone, starting at the top.” She cleared her throat and began reading off the list of names. “Cyclone Courtney.”
“Was not there,” Carlita interrupted.
“Right. Last-minute cancellation.” Elvira drew a line through her name and continued. “Reese, Shrimpy, Steve Winters, Paisley, Annie Dowton, Juice, Duke and Ed, who both work under Luigi now. The last person on the list is Reyna Osmond.”
