Dead Completely: An Afterlife Adventures Novel by Jordaina Sydney Robinson

Author:Jordaina Sydney Robinson [Robinson, Jordaina Sydney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07V3DK39K
Published: 2020-09-08T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

“This isn’t what it looks like?” Sean squeaked and dropped the brick-shaped award. It bounced once when it hit the floor then lay still.

“That’s good because it looks like you bashed Gavin’s head in,” Sabrina said.

“That’s not helpful,” I hissed at her.

Sabrina gestured to the scene in front of us. “That’s what it looks like.”

“Bridget?” Alex’s disembodied voice echoed around the office. The chair rolled out from under the desk and Alex popped his head up. “What are you doing here?”

Sean squealed again and scurried to the other side of the room. “Were you hiding under the desk? How long have you been there?”

“Long enough to know that you didn’t kill him.” Alex climbed to his feet and pushed the chair back under the desk as he spoke. “Unless you killed him and then came back.”

“Do you know who killed him?” Sabrina scanned Alex’s clothes as if she were looking for murdering evidence. “Were you here when it happened?”

Alex peered down at Gavin. “I know you don’t think much of me, but I’m not the type of person who would hide under the desk while someone murdered someone else.”

“We can deal with the who-what-how of this later,” I said before Sabrina could launch into her questioning. “Right now we need to get out of here before the GBs show up and decide we’re all in on this together.” No one moved. I clapped my hands to get everyone’s attention and hopefully instil a sense of urgency. “Now, people. Let’s go! Let’s go! Let’s go!”

“If you still want to save Sean, we need that form.” Sabrina pointed to the cabinet in the far corner while she examined the body, completely unperturbed by my clapping.

“What form?” Sean asked.

“Why are we saving him?” Alex asked. “And from what?”

“Sean go and snoop around Gladys’ desk and see if you can find us anything that might implicate her or someone else.” Sabrina waved her arms around as if she were directing traffic. “Alex, you do the same with the commander’s desk. Bridge get the form we came for.”

“Yes, ma’am.” Sean all but saluted Sabrina. He was at his best when someone was telling him what to do.

Alex rooted around the commander’s desk while I searched through the filing cabinet. “It’s not under ‘a’ for audit, Sabrina. Any other ideas?”

A pop echoed around the room. Alex yelped. I assumed it was a GB. But it wasn’t. Alex stood in front of the desk in a cloud of silver glitter. At first, I thought the cloud wasn’t dissipating, but then I realised that it appeared that way because his face was drenched in the stuff. His head looked like a Christmas bauble. But with eyes.

“Oh, wow.” I didn’t have anything better to say.

Sabrina turned to me. “Check ‘s’ for ‘shrinkage’ or ‘p’ for ‘procedures’.”

If she wasn’t going to mention it, I was going to let it go for now. I left her to try to roll Gavin over and moved onto ‘shrinkage’. It was the first form.

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