Hairless Harassment by Molly Fitz

Author:Molly Fitz [Fitz, Molly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sweet Promise Press
Published: 2019-05-29T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

I brought Matt a cup of plain Earl Grey tea—no cream, no sugar, no good, really. It would have to do, though, seeing as I hadn’t had time to go to the store since moving in yesterday afternoon. Honestly, it was kind of a miracle that I even had this.

“Thanks,” he said with a friendly smile, accepting the warm mug and holding it between his hands. “Look, about last night, I just wanted to apologize for… Well, I’m sure you remember.”

“Water under the bridge.” I waved off his apology, even though I was happy it had been given. I needed to keep him on my side if I were to learn what he knew about his mom’s murder.

“You’re just being so hospitable and then offering to take the cats, too. I feel really bad about how I acted. It’s just…” He sighed heavily and turned the mug around in his hands so that the artwork faced me. It was my crazy cat lady mug. Nan had gotten it to celebrate my official adoption of Octo-Cat a few months back, and it had quickly become my favorite.

Matt sighed and cast his eyes toward the floor. “It may not be the manliest thing to admit, but I was terrified.”

“It’s understandable,” I assured him. “After all, someone did just kill your mother.”

“Exactly!” Matt lifted the tea to his lips, took a small sip, then set it on the coffee table. There weren’t any coasters, but the old piece of furniture already had lots of wear, so I figured this wasn’t a problem I needed to worry about at this precise moment. “I’m staying in her house, too. Granted, it was my house growing up, but it just gives me the creeps.”

“My thoughts exactly.” I reached forward to offer him a fist bump on the subject of staying in creepy houses. He didn’t seem to know what to do with it, so we shook hands instead.

“So, you grew up around here?” I asked, taking a sip from my own mug. I couldn’t stand tea without at least two spoonfuls of sugar mixed in, so I’d secretly filled mine with plain hot water. At least this way I could accompany Matt, make my questions seem more like a conversation than an interrogation.

“Not around here.” He stopped and shook his head. “Here. Right next door.”

“If you don’t mind my asking, why did you leave?” I was really pleased with how things were going so far. Matt was opening up to me without even the slightest hesitation. How much more would he be willing to tell me before he reached the bottom of that tea cup?

“Love.” Matt snorted and rolled his eyes. “Lot of good that did me.”

I winced sympathetically. Even though I’d never been in anything more than puppy love, I felt for the recent divorcee. Everything must have still been so fresh and new, and now he’d lost his mother on top of it all. “So, why don’t you come back? I’m assuming your mother left the house to you.

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