go up there again,” Parker said.
“If I do go, I won’t go alone,” she said.
“Get Rob to go with you. Or better yet, stay home.”
“I don’t want Rob to go with me. Maybe Gage can come.”
“Rob wants to be your bodyguard, why not let him?” Parker yawned.
“Go to bed,” Paige said. “And don’t worry about me.”
“I figure I probably owe you a little worrying.” He patted her shoulder, then turned and shuffled down the hall to his room. Paige returned to her room and bed, but didn’t go to sleep. She was going to end up back at the resort sooner or later, she knew. She wouldn’t go alone, but she wouldn’t sit here doing nothing and waiting for others to solve this mystery.
* * *
MAYA RENFRO WAS a petite dynamo whose shoulder-length black hair was streaked with blue. Even at seven thirty in the morning, she bounced into the Cake Walk Café with all the energy she displayed as coach of Eagle Mountain High’s girls’ basketball team. “Paige, it’s so good to see you,” she said. “And wow, doesn’t this place look great? I haven’t been here since they reopened. Gage told me a driver crashed into it this summer.”
“Yes. The owner, Iris Desmet, decided as long as she was rebuilding, she would expand and add a coffee bar.” She ushered her friend to a table. “How are you? And how is Casey?” Casey was Maya’s five-year-old niece, who lived with Maya and Gage since her parents’ murders that summer.
“She’s great. Last week she asked if, when Gage and I get married, she can change her name, too, so we all match.” Maya snatched a paper napkin from the dispenser on the table and dabbed at her eyes. “Sorry—I still get teary thinking about it.”
“That’s terrific,” Paige said. “I guess she’s really taken to Gage?”
“He’s amazing,” Maya said. “For a man who swore he was a confirmed bachelor, he’s turning out to be a really great father. We don’t want Casey to ever forget her real parents, but it’s nice to think the three of us can be a new family together.”
She pulled out a chair and sank into it. “Now you’ve heard all about me—what did you want to see me about so early in the morning?”
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