“Who is sending you messages?” Cam asked. “The endless buzzing is making me want to hurl your cell phone far, far away.”
“Aunt Dixie is back from her Lost Colony road trip adventure and wants to have a chat right now about all the things she learned. You know, because everything she’s involved in is scare-me-speechless important.”
“You’d better just bite the bullet and go talk to her, Diesel.” Valene laughed when he made a face. “You know she won’t stop until she hunts you down. Better just go get it over with.”
“I don’t think we are finished talking here yet.”
Buzz. Buzz. Buzz.
Cam held his hand out with a look on his face that said he planned to destroy Diesel’s phone with his bare hands. “Let me have it.”
“Nope. I need my phone. I know. Let’s all go to see Aunt Dixie together.”
“What?”
“I say everyone gets to come with me and enjoy the show.”
“That’s mean.” Cam stood anyway. “Where are we going?”
“Not far. Just Gage’s lab.”
As if his brother sensed he was being talked about, the next buzz was from Gage.
“Let me guess—Aunt Dixie again?” Cam asked sarcastically, moving toward the conference door.
“Nope. This time it’s Gage. He says it reallyisimportant.”
“Him I believe,” Valene said. “We’d better get there, pronto.” She grabbed Wyatt’s hand and they all headed for Gage’s lab.
Valene didn’t know exactly what they were in store for, but Wyatt remembering everything made her joyful that maybe somehow something would work out for them. The last time she talked to Aunt Dixie, she’d said she was on the case to find a solution for Valene to be with Wyatt. Maybe her aunt was about to be her salvation.
Chapter Eighteen
Dixie Lou was so excited she was practically jumping up and down. It had taken nearly two weeks to track down and discover all the awesome information they’d found. Luckily, they’d been in her boyfriend Ed’s RV. They found a nice RV park, paid in advance for ten days, knowing they had to get what they needed by then in order to get back to Alienn for the open house party. Besides, having a time limit always made things so much more exciting. They almost didn’t get what they needed in time.
The three days they allowed for travel back home was extended by two days so she could prove all of her suppositions. It was great to be right all the time.
Miss Penny sat quietly at the table with Gage, watching him read the incredible information they’d found. After all they’d learned in Suspicion, she insisted, and Miss Penny agreed, on driving straight through from Minnesota for seventeen hours to get here and tell everyone. And to attend the open house garden party tonight. They weren’t about to give that up.
The only problem was Diesel was somewhere away from the truck stop and wasn’t answering her text messages. Drat that boy!
Gage was reading through all the paperwork and information she’d found. His eyes were as big as saucers and every so often he’d mumble, “Wow. I can’t believe it.” Then he’d turn another page, read it and repeat what he’d said.
After waiting the longest hour of her life, Diesel and Cam finally entered the lab, followed by Valene and her sheriff, Wyatt.
“Oh, good. I’m glad you brought Valene and her beau.”
“What’s this about, Aunt Dixie? And if you tell me you need to discuss a new plan to make more money for the old folks’ home using Lost Colony information, I will break you in half.”
“No need to be grumpy, Diesel. That’s not why I called you here. Although that might be a genius idea one of these days.” She made a mental note to consider what fund-raising could be generated by the Lost Colony Legend.
Gage stood up. “This is amazing, Diesel. You will not believe what she found in Minnesota.”
“More aliens,” Aunt Dixie said.
“What are you talking about?”
