“Bugs killed Aaron, too,” she said.
“How do you know?”
“He used lye to try to get rid of Aaron’s body. That’ll be your proof.”
“Where did you get that from?” I asked. I didn’t know how she could know that.
“Remember Mac said that Aaron’s body was probably soaked in sodium hydroxide?”
“Yeah,” I said. “I remember.”
“Sodium hydroxide is lye,” Mac said. He looked at Miss Vivee and smiled knowingly. “And lye is used to unclog drains.”
I didn’t get it.
“I don’t get it,” I said.
“Bugs told you that he had something powerful to keep his drains clear because the roots kept clogging them up,” Miss Vivee said.
“Yeah, he did,” I said. “I forgot about that.”
“Well that something powerful I’m sure was sodium hydroxide.”
“But why? Why did he do it?”
“Bugs seemed to be living beyond his means with that house, all that furniture and his experiments. We can’t figure out everything, but I’d bet it had something to do with that seeing that Aaron Coulter liked to take things.”
I glanced over at the window. “You know I think Bugs is out there now.” I looked at Miss Vivee and Mac. “I think he came to work today.”
“Well I guess so,” Miss Vivee said. “He brought the body.”
“He might come in here,” I said.
“Well, I suggest you hurry and call Bay then,” Mac said.
Epilogue
My mother says archaeologists are the creators of our history. They dig it up. They interpret it. They tell us what to believe. So with that realization she knows that the history that we’ve been taught isn’t always necessarily the truth.
“They don’t want you to know what really happened,” she has said to me more times than I can count. Heck, she’s even hidden some of our history. And I helped her do it.
That’s why I couldn’t be too upset when I quit as the lead archaeologist for the dig at Track Rock Gap. Or when I found that the article that Bugs had showed me that the U.S. Forest Service wrote to relay their negative stance on Maya migration really was what they were planning to post. Let them have their made up history.
It seems like Bugs was in over his head. The paper I’d gotten a copy of that had been listed on Aaron Coulter’s faculty page about Maya living in America had been co-written by one Jackson Reid – also known as Bugs, didn’t have one ounce of proof in it. It appeared, just like I had been accused of by Riley, they were going to try and manufacture evidence. Bugs had worked with Aaron before, it was a way that he kept enough money to live in his house and house all his bugs. I guess they hadn’t continued to see eye to eye . . .
Clive Armsgoode got my job. Riley, whatever her beliefs really were, stayed on and helped him. I don’t know if they do any real scientific excavation at Track Rock Gap nowadays.
I decided that there were other ways for me to prove that the Maya came to the United States. There’s been evidence reported of Maya ruins in Tennessee and West Virginia. Who knows, maybe they would be more open to discovering the truth.
Meanwhile, I went back to Yasamee to spend some time with my boyfriend and his family – and oh yeah, to try to steer clear of any murders. I’ve definitely had my fill of those.
The End
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A Note from the Author
The third in my cozy mystery series, Maya Mound Mayhem, brought back a lot of memories from my book Incarnate. I really enjoyed reconnecting with previous characters and getting rid of the bad guys. (Although there is still one more left!) There is still more to come in this series, so be sure to follow Logan, Bay and Miss Vivee on their adventures – they’ll be filled with mystery, murder and maybe even a little romance.
Logan Dickerson is the daughter of the main character in my Mars Origin “I” Series. (So if you like mysteries with just a touch of sci-fi, you might want to check them out!). And it’s in Book III of the series that my readers first met Logan as an adult. (She appeared in the first book, In the Beginning, briefly, and was a passing mention in Book II, Irrefutable Proof).
As I mentioned in the first book in this series, Track Rock Gap is real and so are the stories around it that I’ve told in my books. There is a series debate on whether the Maya migrated to the United States. You can read more about the United States Forest Service’s stance here: http://1.usa.gov/1I0ZFWx. And watch what the History Channel had to say, here: http://bit.ly/1TBt2kk (May not be able to see full episode without a cable or satellite provider.)
This book is dedicated to my grandson, Gavin. My very first grandchild, my only grandson, and according to him, my favorite. He’s ten years old. Laid back. Cool. Smart.
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