Death Plays Poker by Robin Spano

Author:Robin Spano [Spano, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781770900851
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 2013-02-15T20:50:04+00:00

FORTY-EIGHT

NOAH

Noah sat at the corner table in the downtown café, his plain black baseball cap pulled down over his eyes. The rest of his face was buried in Crime and Punishment. He was in an ironic mood.

Two tables away, Fiona sat sipping a latte. She was reading too — Shopoholic and Baby. Every now and then she’d giggle. Noah was tempted to ask to trade books.

A woman came into the café. She shook out her plain green umbrella, catching Fiona with a few drops of spray.

Fiona flicked hair from her face.

“Are you Fiona?” the umbrella lady said.

Fiona looked up from her book. She smiled at the lady. “Yeah. Do you watch a lot of poker?”

The woman shook her head. “This is for you.”

Fiona took the plain white envelope the woman handed her. “Have we met?”

“No. A man on the street asked me to give this to you.”

Fiona’s eyebrows lifted. “What did he look like?”

“He was wearing a hat.” The woman shrugged.

“A cowboy hat? A baseball cap?”

“I had my umbrella up. I don’t even think I saw his face.”

Perfect. Noah smiled behind his boring book.

“Thanks,” said Fiona.

The woman aimed her umbrella at the door and went back out into the rain. Fiona tugged the paper from the envelope and unfolded it.

Noah knew what the message said, because he’d written it:

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