Alibi In High Heels by Halliday Gemma

Author:Halliday, Gemma [Halliday, Gemma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Crime, Contemporary, Chick-Lit, Humor
ISBN: 9780843958355
Google: nzJmHwAACAAJ
Amazon: 0843958359
Goodreads: 2319493
Publisher: Making It
Published: 2008-01-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

My life flashed before my eyes as I looked from Felix, his lips still wet and swollen looking, to Ramirez, his eyes flashing fire, his fists clenching and unclenching at his sides.

“I… we…” I stuttered, taking one giant step away from Felix.

Ramirez did a low growl and I suddenly feared another murder might take place soon. Very soon.

“It’s not what it looks like,” I blurted out. “I didn’t even kiss him back!” Much.

Ramirez looked from me to Felix, his unreadable cop face slipping into place.

“Jack?” I said feebly.

But it was too late. I could see all emotion draining from his eyes, being replaced with that dead Cop Face look I’d come to know and dread. Then, before I could stop him, he turned around and stalked out the door.

“Shit.” I hobbled after him, my crutches slipping on the over-polished floor. I fumbled with them, then ditched them altogether as I turned the corner, throwing them clattering to the floor in the hallway. “Wait,” I called desperately, half hoping half running after him. “Please, Jack, wait,” I begged. I was rushing after him so quickly I plunged right into him when he stopped abruptly and turned around.

“Uhn.”

He immediately pushed me away, as if suddenly my touch repulsed him. Tears instantly stung my eyes.

“Please, Jack,” I pleaded, sure I was two seconds away from a total girly cry-fest melt down if he didn’t at least look at me.

“What.” He didn’t phrase it as a question. And he didn’t meet my eyes.

“Look, I am so, so sorry. You weren’t supposed to walk in on that.”

“Obviously.”

“No, wait, I didn’t mean it like that. I meant that I didn’t expect you. You weren’t suppose to be here. What are you doing here?”

“I was worried about you, Maddie. I made your mother tell me where you were. I thought you were in trouble.” He spit the words out, his voice rough and void of all emotion. He looked past my head down the hallway. “Apparently you were getting along just fine.”

“No, I’m not. I mean, I am, but it’s not what it looks like.”

“Oh, so you weren’t kissing him?”

“Well, yes, but he kissed me this time!”

Ramirez raised one eyebrow, that vein in his neck pulsing like a Latin conga dancer. “This time?”

Oh. Shit.

I bit my lip. “Uh, yeah. I mean, last time was totally an accident. He turned his head.”

Ramirez held up his hands. “You know what? I don’t even want to hear it. It doesn’t matter.”

A lead weight dropped into my belly. “It doesn’t?”

“No.” And from the flat, dead tone in his voice I had a sinking feeling it really didn’t. I had a feeling, as he turned and walked purposefully down the hall, his footsteps echoing, that nothing I did was going to matter to Ramirez anymore. That I could beg, plead, promise six ways till Sunday that I hadn’t meant to kiss Felix, that no matter how much I promised I had no idea how what had started out as interrogation had ended with his lips locked on mine, Ramirez wasn’t going to forgive me.

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