Green-Eyed Envy by Kasey MacKenzie

Author:Kasey MacKenzie [MacKenzie, Kasey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP
Published: 2011-05-18T23:00:00+00:00

EVEN ON A SUNDAY MORNING, SAHANA COULD be found elbow-deep in some poor bastard’s chest cavity while she hummed her eerie Raga song. The morgue was like a 24-hour diner—open 365 days a year—and Sahi was its fearless manager who kept everything running like clockwork. It helped that she was Hindu rather than Christian (Sundays were just another day for her) and that she moved to Boston specifically to get some breathing room away from her meddlesome family. As she’d confided to me before, she loved them like crazy, but that’s exactly what they did—drove her out of her ever-loving mind.

I watched her work her magic through the narrow viewing window, sipping on the hot cup of Starbucks coffee Trinity had been kind enough to provide this early weekend morning. Of course, neither Scott nor I mentioned that we’d already had a healthy dose of caffeine on the way over. Never let it be said that Yankee manners could be put to shame by good old Southern hospitality.

Speak of the devil and she shall put in her two cents. “How long do you think she’s gonna be?”

I tilted my head. “Judging by the pitch of her voice and the hairs raising on my neck, I’d say she should be done any . . . second . . . now.”

My dramatic pauses for effect were timed perfectly. Sahana’s body drooped a few seconds after, a clear sign she’d found the answers she’d been seeking, which was my cue. I handed off my cup to Scott. He and Trinity crossed the hall to Sahana’s office door while I slipped inside the autopsy room. Sahana managed a weak smile when I put my hands on her arms and guided her to the stainless steel sink so she could wash away the less savory traces of her career field.

“Sahi, Sahi. If you’re going to push yourself this hard, you have got to have someone in the room with you. A lab tech, a uniform, that cute guy your mom’s always trying to set you up with. Somebody. One of these days you’re gonna lose yourself in the Raga song and then what?”

She paused in the act of lathering her hands with harsh yellow soap. “I expect the same thing that will happen when you keep pulling twelve-hour shifts without taking any days off, Chief.”

“Touché,” I muttered before shoving a wad of paper towels her way. “But at least I’m getting better at delegating. And seriously, why is there never a lab tech around to help you?”

Sahana finished patting her hands dry with precise movements—whether due to her exhaustion or innate perfectionist tendencies I wasn’t sure—and leaned against the heavy-duty sink. Her eyes narrowed as she looked at me, and something . . . hungry . . . rippled across the pupils. My heart skidded fitfully, and the hairs along my neck rose straight up.

“Because it wouldn’t do at all for the Chief Arcane ME to suck the very life from her mortal lab tech’s

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