Bad Publicity (An Isobel Spice Novel) by Lessner Joanne Sydney

Author:Lessner, Joanne Sydney [Lessner, Joanne Sydney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dulcet Press
Published: 2013-04-03T04:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-THREE

WOULD HE EVER BE ABLE TO VISIT ISOBEL at her place of work without running into the goddamn cops?

James paced back and forth, while Isobel sat at her desk, nervously shuffling papers.

“Will you sit down? You’re making me nervous,” she said.

“Stop messing with those papers. You’re making me nervous!”

Isobel gave a frustrated sigh and stood up. “Fine! Will you please just tell me whatever it was you wanted to tell me?”

“I don’t want to be overheard.”

She thought for a moment. “Liz is gone. We can use her office.”

“What about the cops?”

“If they can’t find us, they’re pretty crappy cops.”

It was hard to argue with that, so he followed her a few paces down the hall into the vacant office. She shut the door behind them and put her hands on her hips.

“Okay. What’s going on?”

He cracked his knuckles. “It’s not really that much.”

She eyed him. “But it was worth coming by to tell me in person? Or were you just looking for an excuse to buy me dinner?”

He felt the heat rise to his face. “Who said I was buying?”

She laughed. “You’re a gentleman at heart, James. I know that about you, even if you don’t know it yourself. So what’s the scoop?”

He pulled over the visitor’s chair and sat down. Isobel perched on the edge of the desk.

“There’s a woman who works here, Kit someone.”

“Kit Blanchard.”

“Did you know she and Jason were related by marriage?”

Her eyebrows rose in surprise. “No kidding! Is that how Dove & Flight got his business?”

“According to Jayla, yes, although Kit didn’t work on the account.”

“She wouldn’t. She does consumer products.” Isobel smiled a smile he’d seen before and didn’t much like.

“What?”

“Kit was having an affair with Aaron Grossman who did work on the account. It seems to have ended today, and not amicably.”

“And you know this how?”

She shrugged. “I overheard them.”

He folded his arms. “You mean you eavesdropped.”

“No! I honestly happened to be walking past Kit’s office to the coat closet and heard them. I can show you where her office is and where the closet is if you don’t believe me—”

“Okay, okay!” He held up his hand to stem the flow. “So what do you think it means?”

“Kit and Jason? I don’t know. But they had a relationship apart from work, and that’s exactly the kind of connection I was looking for. I knew there was something!” Isobel pressed her fingertips together in a pyramid shape and shut her eyes.

“You’re thinking. Stop that.”

Isobel’s eyes popped open. “What if Jason knew she was having an affair with Aaron, and he planned to tell—wait, how are they related?”

“She’s married to his brother’s wife’s brother,” he said slowly, working it through. “But if Jason knew about the affair and was threatening to expose Kit, why would she dump Aaron after Jason was dead?”

“Guilty conscience?”

James shook his head. “More likely he’d simply outlived his usefulness. Besides, no matter how you slice it, it’s a pretty drastic leap from the simple fact that they’re related to a motive for murder.

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