Interior Motives by Ginny Aiken
Author:Ginny Aiken
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 0100-12-31T22:00:00+00:00
9
You never can tell with Lila. This time she just about shocked the socks off me—not that I wear socks with my Birks.
“I figured you’d get around to this sooner or later,” she said once Cissy and I had laid out what we knew. “We can’t refuse the family’s request, or in this case, that of the executrix of the estate. If Mrs. Grover signs the necessary documents, a forensic pathologist will run a toxicology screen on the remains.”
I’d come loaded for proverbial bear; I’d found an educated kitty cat instead. But I’d gotten what I wanted. And we would soon have the answers we needed.
Waiting wouldn’t be easy, not for someone who lacks all patience. But I didn’t have a choice. The tests would take a few days.
And I did have to work on Tedd’s office. Not to mention the tons of paperwork stacked on my desk at the auction house. It was there, at my office in the warehouse, on Wednesday, that I got Bella’s phone call.
“Haley? I got a problem.”
“Only one?”
“This is no joke. I need your help.”
She sounded serious, but in the background I could hear the familiar and fearsome wails and snarls of her two cats. “How much trouble are you and the beasts in?”
“Depends on what you call trouble.”
What were the chances that whatever had Bella in an uproar wouldn’t strike me as trouble? “Give it a whirl and tell me what’s up. I’ll tell you if I call it trouble.”
“My car broke down.”
“Call AAA.”
Dead silence. Except the cats.
Bella has a special talent; I can always count on her to test my lousy excuse for patience. “Did you hear me? Why’d you call me instead of the auto club?”
“Um . . . they won’t come to where I am.”
“What? They’re everywhere. They even offer some international services. What do you mean, they won’t come to where you are?” A horrible possibility hit me then. “Please tell me you didn’t leave the country.”
“Well . . . it’s like this. I . . . ah . . . took a little trip and wound up all turned around. Now my car’s broke down, and they don’t have a local auto club all that close to here.”
“Bella, where are you?”
A fantastically loud howl made me strain to hear her response. I thought she said something about a desert. But that made no sense. Even if it was Bella on the phone.
“Come again? Your darling fur wad yowled over you.”
“Now, Haley. It’s a crying shame how you hurt Bali’s feelings all the time. You know how sensitive she is.”
Like sandpaper, but that wasn’t the point right then. “We can talk about the cats later. Where are you?”
“I’m not exactly sure, and that’s why AAA wouldn’t send anyone after me. It’s kinda lonely out here.”
Now I began to worry. “Out where?”
“In the desert.”
Last time I checked, the nearest desertlike terrain was way on the other side of Washington State, off to the northeast. I live on the coast, way in the west.
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