A Dangerous Woman by Debra Lee

Author:Debra Lee
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Mitch was left to entertain himself for a total of fifteen minutes. I'm not sure how entertaining those minutes were for him, but by the way the table looked, he hadn't daydreamed them away either.

"Haven't you been the busy little beaver," was my way of a compliment as I sat down at the table in front of a double-decker sandwich and steaming mug of coffee.

"You might want a think about replacin' things in the frig," Mitch suggested as he sat down in the chair across from me. "You got some really scary lookin' stuff growin' in there."

I bit into tomato, lettuce and cheese, neatly layered between four slices of whole wheat bread.

"How is it?" Mitch asked as he watched me chew, then swallow, my first big bite.

"Not bad, but it'd be a lot tastier with a few slices of bacon."

He commented by way of shaking his head in disapproval before biting into his own sandwich.

I sipped my coffee, while I waited for him to finish thoroughly chewing his food before swallowing. The wait was a strain on the nerves. I survived it though in silence. But the second he swallowed, I fired away with my question. "Are you gonna tell me or not?"

When he put his mug of coffee to his lips instead of answering me right away, I wanted to kick him one under the table. But something, or more specifically, that inner voice told me that wouldn't be a smart move.

"Something's turned up on this Angel Adams," he finally mentioned.

And here I was, all puffed up, expecting big news. What a let down.

"I already know about her being Joe's daughter," I said, and picked up my sandwich to take my disappointment out on it.

"She's Joe's daughter?"

My teeth were a hair from chomping into my sandwich when his question came. The sandwich was dropped back down on paper plate.

"That's not what you were going to tell me?"

"Angel Adams isn't Angel Adams. Her legal name is Angel Traditor. Adams was her mother's maiden name."

Mitch did take another bite of his sandwich, while I kicked a few things around in my head.

"Traditor must have been the stepdad's name. That has to be it. Angel doesn't like him, or the name, and decided to take her mom's maiden one. No crime in that."

Mitch chewed and swallowed this second bite a lot faster and had a response to my moment of thinking out loud.

"Don't know about a step dad, but there was a crime."

He took another bite of food, while I puffed up again with anticipation.

This time, I didn't have the patience to wait until he finished emptying his mouth.

"What crime?"

"Don't know. Happened when she was a juvenile. Records are sealed."

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