All the Wicked Ways by E. M. Moore

Author:E. M. Moore [Moore, E. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-18T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

I was just throwing the spaghetti in the boiling water when I heard Mel’s high heels click and clack against the wood stairs outside my apartment. I ran to the door and threw it open. “Mel!”

She jumped about a foot in the air and screamed.

“It’s me.”

She turned, her chest heaving in front of her. “Don’t do that. What’s wrong with you?”

“I just need to talk to you.”

“About what?” she seethed.

My head careened back. “You left so early this morning I didn’t get a chance to say anything to you. How are you doing?”

She looked wistfully down the steps and then back at me. “I’m fine. You don’t have to worry about me, I’m absolutely fine.”

“Okay…” She looked anything but fine, but I knew arguing with her would be fruitless. “I saw Jackson today. He said he really needed to talk to you again. Did you happen to see him?”

She shook her head. “No, I didn’t have that pleasure. Did he say what he wanted to talk to me about?”

“He needs to know why you were at Casey’s shop.”

“Jeez, I just happened by. What is the big deal? I decided to stop in and say hello. Now, all of a sudden, I find a dead body and someone thinks I murdered them.”

“He doesn’t think you murdered her, Mel. There’s no way he thinks that. It’s just part of the investigation. He needs to know everything that happens so he can piece it together. Something that means very little to you can me a lot to him since he knows all the information.”

A small smile formed on her face. “Isn’t that exactly what I told you a couple weeks ago about the dead body they found in your library? You weren’t all that keen on sharing a certain security tape if I remember correctly.”

A blast of embarrassment hit me in the face. “Yeah,” I said cautiously, “But, I finally did do the right thing.”

“Thanks to me.”

“No, thanks to my own conscience, thank you very much. Quit trying to change the subject. Will you just go and see Jackson, please?”

“Fine.” She rolled her eyes. “I would love to go see that fine specimen of a man.”

I laughed and shook my head. “That’s the spirit. Hey,” I said, looking around, making sure no one was there. “Something really weird happened to me today.”

Mel clamped her jaw shut and took a step closer. “Yeah?”

“It was just so weird. You’re going to think I’m crazy.”

She rolled her hand over as if to tell me to get on with it.

“It’s probably nothing, but I was talking to Scilla Longbottom today and I literally could not keep my mouth shut. I kept asking her question after question about the two murders and if she knew anything about it. I don’t know what was wrong with me, I just— It’s almost like I didn’t have control over myself. You ever heard of anything like that?”

Mel’s eyes widened. “What exactly did you ask her?”

My nose wrinkled. “Pretty sure I

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