To Love and to Perish

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Author: Lisa Bork
Tags: Fiction, Mystery, Mystery Fiction, vintage, car, bork, broken vows, Grand Prix, vintage cars, sports car
have been drinking that night. The whole report implied the court of popular opinion had convicted him long ago. Perhaps this story was what had fueled all the jokes in Wachobe for all these years.
    But somehow I doubted it. Brennan wasn’t from Wachobe; he grew up in Albany, the state’s capital, five hours southeast. Until today, I hadn’t even known his father had money—or anything about his father at all. Granted, I didn’t follow the news much and the local grapevine even less, but I would have heard this story about the car accident before now if it had made it to Wachobe. No, Brennan had arrived in our town ten years ago to start his contracting business untainted. The rumors that traveled the vine these days had to be linked to some other event. Perhaps now was the time to find out what it was. I could only hope it didn’t paint Brennan in an even worse light.
    After dinner, Ray had to drop us at the motel and head home for work, so I never got another word alone with him. He did tell Danny to stick close to me at the track the next day, a complete turnaround from earlier today. I wondered if that was for my protection or Danny’s—or just Ray’s theory of safety in numbers. Surely he didn’t think we were at risk of being run down ourselves?
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    The next morning, Cory met Danny and me in the parking lot promptly at eight. His eyes appeared sunken into his head with dark circles highlighting his lack of sleep. He wore the same shirt and pants as last night, now creased and wrinkled after he appar ently slept in them. I didn’t remark on it, but for Cory, a failure to attend to his appearance was a major indication of just how understandably rattled he was. I hadn’t slept all that well myself—visions of my loved ones being pushed in front of cars and crushed to death kept waking me. Danny, however, slept like a rock and needed to be prodded to awaken and get dressed.
    â€œLet’s grab some breakfast.” I pointed to the motel office, where we’d been assured a continental breakfast would be available each morning.
    Danny took off at a fast clip; Cory shuffled along three paces behind me.
    The motel owner looked up with a frown when we entered the office. “Good morning. Are you in room nine?”
    Cory glanced at his key fob and lifted his eyebrows. “Yes.”
    Her frown deepened. “These messages are for you. The press has been calling on and off all night. My husband and I didn’t sleep a wink.”
    I peeked at the pink message slips over Cory’s shoulder. The messages were addressed to Brennan Rowe, asking for interviews.
    The manager fussed with some papers on the desk. “I don’t know why they’re calling here. It’s clear from the news this morning that your friend has been arrested and will be arraigned Monday morning. But once I made the mistake of saying he was registered here, they wouldn’t stop phoning.”
    A stricken look crossed Cory’s face. He crumpled the messages in his hand. “I’m sorry you and your husband were disturbed. We’ll be checking out this morning.” He laid his key on the counter and turned to me, waiting.
    I set my key down next to his, demonstrating my solidarity. “Can we have our bills please?”
    Danny looked up from the table draped in a floral plastic tablecloth and covered with an assortment of juice boxes and packaged cheese and apple pastries that apparently passed for continental breakfast. “Aren’t we staying for the races?”
    Obviously Danny was more interested in the race than concerned about Brennan and Cory. I hated to do it, but this time their needs had to take priority over Danny’s. “We’ll get to see some racing this morning, but then we need to head out.”
    I hoped the disappointment on Danny’s face wouldn’t add to Cory’s torment. He was too busy pulling his credit card from his
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