Cavanaugh or Death by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Moira and Davis were almost finished with their meals when her phone began to vibrate, letting her know that she had a call coming in.

She wiped her fingers on one of the extra napkins on the tray and then pulled out her phone. Pressing the accept button, she said, “Cavanaugh.”

“You’re out of luck, big sister,” Valri told her, getting to the heart of her call. “Janice Owens died two years ago. I couldn’t find any other next of kin listed anywhere so that lady in the cemetery has no one to put flowers on her grave.”

Neither did the first person—also a woman—that they’d wound up exhuming, Moira thought, wondering if that was just a simple coincidence or if it was something that tied the two incidents together.

In either case, Valri had done her job. “Thanks, Val, I owe you.”

“At this point, you owe me quite a lot,” Valri pointed out, amused.

She knew that Valri was kidding, but all the same, Moira did mean to pay her sister back somehow. “I’m good for it.”

“Yeah, yeah.” Valri laughed. “That’s what they all say.”

“You know, that fiancé of yours is having a very bad effect on you,” Moira deadpanned and then said, “Talk to you later, kid,” before terminating the call.

Having only half a conversation to work with, Davis had put his own interpretation to what he had picked up. “Bad news?”

That depended on whether or not you were Marjorie Owens, Moira mused, thinking of her sister’s reference to the fact that there was no one left to put flowers on the deceased woman’s grave.

“Yes and no.”

“Are you going to make me guess or do I get to pick which it is?” Davis asked.

Mentioning the sad fact that Marjorie had no one to put flowers on her grave wouldn’t mean anything to Gilroy, she thought, so she merely summed up what Valri had told her.

“There’s no next of kin for Marjorie Owens. Her daughter died a couple of years ago. That means we’re going to need to get another court order to exhume the body.”

“Which you will pull out of your hat,” Davis declared with more than a touch of sarcasm.

“It’s not quite that simple,” Moira pointed out to him.

“It’s not quite that hard from what I saw the last time,” he reminded her. “Do I get to watch this court order materialize again?” he asked. “Or do I get to cool my heels in the car?”

She would have thought that once was enough for him. The man was full of surprises. “Do you want to come along?”

His shrug was just this side of indifferent in her opinion. “Might as well.”

Moira laughed drily. “You really should contain your enthusiasm.”

His eyes met hers. “You want enthusiasm, you should have teamed up with a cheerleader.”

The way he had phrased his comment was not lost on her. “Oh, so you admit we’re a team?”

He sighed like a man who knew he was going to have to remember to say even less than he usually did around this woman.

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