Body in the Box by E R Fallon

Author:E R Fallon [Fallon, E R]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joffe Books Mystery, Crime Thriller, Suspense Fiction
Published: 2016-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

There wasn’t enough time to sit down at Lulu’s, so they ordered a breakfast to go, with a couple of cups of coffee, and ate at the station while waiting for Henry Riley to show up. Natalia Dubinina had agreed to meet with them that afternoon after Dino’s ex-wife had come through. Apparently she knew a lot of immigrant nurses in the area through her volunteer work. Rebecca wondered why his ex hated him so much.

Rebecca felt Dino watching her as she ate her bagel, and she wondered if maybe the stare was merely because he was tired, and not deliberate. She decided she’d head to the women’s locker room to take a hot shower and change her underwear at least.

There weren’t a lot of female detectives at the station. Rebecca had met one named Marlene when she first arrived, and from time to time they ran into each other in the locker room. Marlene had joked to her more than once that this place was too damn small. Rebecca wondered what she meant — maybe that they were the only two homicide chicks in the place.

Rebecca had been meaning to ask Marlene if she wanted to go out sometime, a girls’ night out kind of thing, to a bar or to a club. She didn’t really know of any places, but she figured that Marlene would.

Rebecca excused herself from the desk Captain Peters had finally ordered for her and which had been put in the corner, next to her partners’ desks.

* * *

Dino watched Rebecca as she walked away from her desk. Terry noticed.

“If you don’t stop looking, Cooper, you might get slapped with a harassment suit.”

“It’s just my luck,” Dino said with a heavy sigh. “It figures that Peters picked an amazing woman to work with us, and because we work together, she’s out of my reach.”

Terry smiled slightly. “You know, if she’s interested too, you could probably ask her out. There aren’t any real rules against that, as far as I know. But if you two do get together, just don’t be too obvious about it around here. People are starting to wonder.”

“They’re starting to wonder? Why?”

“They notice you looking, and they see the way you two are together. If you piece it all together, well, you know.”

“It’s that obvious?”

“It is.”

“Who’s been talking?”

“No one, really. Just a couple of the guys.”

“Oh, yeah, which ones?”

“That guy Palmoni. You know of him, right, the loudmouth with the Ferrari?”

“I do. What’s he been saying?”

Terry cleared his throat. “Stuff about Rebecca, and it isn’t all polite.”

Dino stood up. “Wasn’t that Palmoni asshole suspected of taking bribes from dealers? I would’ve thought the department would’ve done something about it by now. I mean, he’s making eighty grand and driving a car that costs two hundred grand. Something’s not right. One thing’s for sure, I better not catch him saying shit about Rebecca. Because if I do . . .” He smacked his fist against the wall.

Terry shook his head and chuckled.

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