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“Exactly,” Iverson said. “If he has decided you’re only supposed to see him, he might just figure no one has discovered that Gus died at his hands. If he believes he got away with murder, he could believe he will be able to do the same to William and get away with it. I’ve seen so many cases where a guy feels if he can’t have a woman, no one else can. Sometimes, the man will kill both the girlfriend and the new boyfriend, but other times, just the new boyfriend because he still wants the girlfriend.”

“Do you always catch them?” Chelsea asked.

“Yeah. Being a wolf helps with the hunt for sure,” Iverson said, “but when I ran into some of the MacQuarrie kin andlearned they had a wolf pack out here, I left my job and joined them. I do whatever they need me to do, and I love it here. It’s great being with a pack.”

“I bet,” Chelsea said.

“It’s late, and Maisie and I need to make breakfast early in the morning for our guests,” Anne said.

“Can I help?” Chelsea asked.

Anne and Maisie smiled. “Sure, if you want to,” Maisie said.

“I would love to. I’m used to earning my keep, so that would be great,” Chelsea said.

Then they all said their good nights. Tomorrow would be a busy day—taking pictures of William and Chelsea and then sharing the photos on various social media networks of the newfound friendship between William and Chelsea.

But then Maisie had a thought. “Oh, oh, Chelsea and I need to see Gus’s car,” she said to Robert.

“To smell the scents there,” Robert said. “Hell, I hadn’t thought of that. Let’s get Chelsea and take a trip to the castle. I’ll call Grant and tell him we’re on our way.”

Chapter 24

As soon as Maisie told Chelsea what she and Robert were going to do, Iverson said he was going with them. William and Edward would stay behind with Anne.

Of course everyone who had planned to go to bed couldn’t now, as they wanted to hear what Maisie and Chelsea discovered.

“I’ll make us some green tea,” Anne said, wearing pajama shorts and a shirt and a robe. “Be safe, all of you.”

“We will be,” Robert assured her, and then they took off in his car for the castle.

“I wish I’d thought of this earlier,” Maisie said.

“If Gus’s car was found near that petrol station where I saw Jack, that has to confirm that Jack was in the same proximity,” Chelsea said. “How far was Gus’s car from the station?”

Iverson said, “Just a mile. It was on a farm road, sitting mostly hidden by some old sheds so it wasn’t really visible, but I saw the back of the car, and it was black, so I drove down the road to check it out. It looked as if someone had parked it there to hide it. The sheds were practically in ruins,so the farmer probably doesn’t even use them any longer and might not have come across the car for a long time.”

“So Jack tailed me to the petrol station from Glasgow,” Chelsea said, “and Gus picked me up from there. I never saw any sign of Jack at that time. Then Gus and I went back to his room while I left my car at the petrol station. We visited for about an hour, and then he drove me back. When I got in my car and moved it to a pump to get some petrol, I saw Jack. I wonder if Gus did too. Well, worse, that Jack saw Gus leaving me off. I left, irritated that Jack was there, not wanting to have any kind of a confrontation and worried he would smell Gus on me. I hadn’t considered that Jack had followed me there. But then why not follow me to the inn and confront Gus there? So I figured at the time that it must have been a coincidence.”

“Too much of a coincidence,” Robert said.

Maisie and Iverson agreed with him.

“Aye. I should have assumed it was. I thought Gus had just left and returned to the inn. After we said our goodbyes, I didn’t watch him leave. But if he saw Jack there or Jack could have followed him, then maybe the two of them got into an altercation once I had left. I didn’t see Jack leave either.”

“I didn’t see Gus on the security video fighting with anyone at the petrol station,” Iverson said. “What did Jack’s vehicle look like?”

“A blue car. Something new. I don’t know vehicles that well. It was a two-door. I hadn’t seen him drive it before, actually.”

“That would explain why only Gus’s car ended up back at the inn and some other guy was driving it. He had Gus’sroom key, got the bags, returned to the car, and left again,” Maisie said.

“After he got the garden stone and rope from the shed,” Robert said.

Maisie sighed. “Right.”

Iverson said, “Jack’s car is a five-door hatchback, Nissan, silver. He must have used another car for his trip there.”

“Unless his car was in the shop for repairs or for some other reason, it sounds like this was planned,” Robert said.