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“We have to tell the others!” she said excitedly. “We have to let them—”
“Right now?”
My words brought her slowly back down to earth. She turned to look at me, and I seized the moment and kissed her.
I stole her breath away, breathing her into my lungs. Her body went limp in my arms again, as she swooned into me.
“Tomorrow,” I said, with a loving smile. “First thing in the morning, okay?”
Madison actually shuddered now, against the chill. Her body was coming down from the adrenaline, the excitement.
“You’re cold,” I said taking her by the hand. “Come. Sleep with me.”
She nodded eagerly, following me back toward the door. Looking every bit the yellow-tressed goddess she actually was.
“I’m going to wrap myself all around you and warm you up.”
Sixty-Two
MADISON
“So he knows about it?” said Chase, pouring his coffee. “He’s looking for it? In the ground?”
“YES.”
“And that’s who we saw that night?” asked Julian. “Some guy running a metal detector out in the field?”
“I’m positive,” I replied. “One-hundred percent.”
Julian and Chase looked at each other. Noah was busy forking eggs into his mouth.
“How and when did you figure this all out?” asked Julian.
“Well I couldn’t sleep last night,” I explained. “I was hot. Restless. And then I was up on the roof, and Noah was there. And we were just looking out over the field together…”
“Just looking out over the field together,” Chase laughed. “Riiiight.”
I shrugged off the comment as Noah and I exchanged a quick, knowing glance. “Yeah, so anyway, I was thinking about that thing we saw. About how it moved. And then suddenly I remembered that guy with the metal detector—”
“Edgar.”
My brows crossed for a second. “Who?”
“Edgar,” Chase said simply. “That’s his name.”
“That’s the name he gave you, anyway,” muttered Julian.
“Yeah, that’s right — Edgar.” I took a deep breath before continuing. “I remember him sweeping back and forth with his machine, and I realized I’d seen those same movement before. Only far off, in the distance. At night.”
Julian looked lost in thought, the wheels in his head turning. Chase had already put enough sugar in his coffee to explode a rhino heart. He extended one hand, and I slid him the milk.
“That explains why he’s out there at night,” said Julian. “He’s sneaking around. Looking while we sleep.”
“And during the day he’s searching further out,” said Chase. “Near the stables, where he works. Where no one cares, and nobody’s watching.”
“Which means he knows about the treasure horde,” said Noah. “But he doesn’t know where it is.”
“He thinks its in the ground, though,” said Chase. “And he might have the area narrowed down a little.”
