Whispers of Fate: The Mistresses of Fate, Book Two (26 page)
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Authors: Deirdre Dore
Epilogue
TAVEY WATCHED THE BULLDOZER
remove the dirt covering her father’s grave. Raquel and Chris were with her again, as was Brent. He’d asked if he could film the removal. Tavey had agreed; their contract stated that he could record, but she had to approve anything that ended up in the final version.
Once the dirt was removed, four big men secured the casket with straps and used a winch to pull it up out of the ground.
It was clearly heavy, heavier than the empty casket they were supposed to have buried.
Fifteen minutes later, they’d removed the casket and were using pry bars to open it up.
A man’s body, badly decomposed and wearing a suit, was resting beneath a suitcase that was liberally covered in dirt.
The men stepped away, and Tavey walked over to the casket. She looked for a long moment but didn’t recognize anything about the man lying in her father’s grave. She supposed there was no reason she should.
She didn’t want to touch anything, knowing the FBI would want to check for evidence, but something was sticking out of the crease in the suitcase, something that looked like cloth or paper. She leaned closer and just barely made out half of Benjamin Franklin’s face. A hundred-dollar bill.
Tavey closed her eyes. She’d been hoping—expecting—to find Summer as well. She’d thought maybe that if she found one, there would be the other. She hadn’t even cared whether there was an explanation; she’d just wanted to find her.
Instead she had what she believed were her father’s bones, and yet another mystery to solve.
The wind kicked up, carrying the scent of fresh flowers from the recent graves and blowing away the stench of rot that had burst out when they’d opened her father’s casket. A ribbon tore free from an arrangement, a blue ribbon with yellow stars. Both Raquel and Chris stepped forward at the same time, taking Tavey’s hands in shared astonishment.
Tavey blinked, disbelieving, as the ribbon stuck to her father’s grave for a moment, pinned there by the wind, and then was carried off on the summer breeze. It was as if they had Summer back, just for a moment, and she had whispered to them all.
“Come and find me.”
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The Final Installment in the
MISTRESSES OF FATE Trilogy
By Deirdre Dore
September 2014 from Pocket Star Books
Raquel Weaver is a member of Atlanta PD’s Sex Crimes Task Force and a dedicated hunter of child abusers. As the daughter of a famous blues singer with a history of scandal, Raquel tries to avoid the limelight, partially because of Brent Burns, an award-winning documentary filmmaker who made her private pain public knowledge. But when his latest film uncovers new information about the disappearance of her friend Summer Haven, Raquel puts aside her resentment and begins hunting a predator from the past, a predator who has returned to the small town of Fate.
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