Chapter 68: A Motive To Die For

Dad was waiting for me in the foyer and, I discovered, so was Crew. The sheriff had obviously gotten over his childish snit fit because he stood with my father and watched me approach. I slowed my pace so I didn't look like a little girl running after her daddy though I was pretty sure I wasn't fooling anyone when I came to a less than graceful stop beside Dad. Petunia

let out a long, frustrated sigh and glared at me before burping her opinion of this whole running around business.

"James and Ethan," Crew said before I could open my mouth to him or to Petunia. "Both need to be confined from this moment on in a safe place they can be monitored until the plows get to us and my team can arrive."

"Just those two?" Dad's initial question even sounded cocky and challenging to me though when Crew's forehead vein pulsed, his eye twitch in clear evidence, my father instead held up both hands and shook his head. "Let's just cover all bases, okay?"