Hawg Heaven Cozy Mysteries: Books 1 - 4 by Summer Prescott

Author:Summer Prescott [Prescott, Summer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Summer Prescott Books
Published: 2020-04-01T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Rossalyn was in a quandary. She didn’t want to call Officer Morgan Tyler too early in the morning, feeling that it would be an unfair imposition on a man who had already been very accommodating, but the thought of Ryan walking to school after she left for work unsettled her. She could take Ryan to work with her, but she didn’t want to leave José and Garrett in the middle of the breakfast rush to drop him off at school, and she didn’t want him walking either, after having Sam stop by without invitation. Spying the baseball bat leaning up against the side of the refrigerator, she had an idea, and was out the door before she could start second-guessing her impulse.

Tom Hundman answered Rossie’s timid knock on his door with a serious case of bed head and a frown which indicated that he’d not yet had enough of the cup of coffee in his hand.

“Yeah?” he blinked at her, blanket lines still marking the side of his face above his beard.

“I… uh, I wanted to thank you for helping me out yesterday.”

“No problem,” Tom grunted, and moved to shut the door. Rossie spoke again before he did.

“And… I was hoping that you might be able to help me out again,” she admitted.

Her sleepy and slightly grumpy neighbor quirked an eyebrow at her, listening.

“I think that it might be a little bit dangerous for Ryan to walk to school by himself right now,” she shivered, partially from cold and partially from the thought of anything happening to her good-natured teenager.

She explained, briefly, about what had happened out at Franz’s house, and how Sam had stopped by yesterday, hoping that she wasn’t sounding like a paranoid helicopter parent.

“So you want me to go have a conversation with this guy?” Tom asked.

“No, actually. I’m going to talk to Morgan Tyler about him later, I was hoping that you might be able to just kind of keep an eye on Ryan, without him knowing about it, while he walks to school. You know, to make sure that…” she trailed off uncomfortably.

“Yeah, I get it. I can do that,” he nodded.

“I really appreciate it. If you want to swing by Hawg Heaven afterwards, I’m sure José is cooking up a really good special this morning, and yours will be on the house.”

“I got errands to run,” was the gruff reply.

“Okay. Well, thanks,” she blurted just before he closed the door.

Rossalyn trotted back toward home, thinking that the moody veteran could be quite neighborly when it came right down to it. She’d made up her mind to try to break through his tough outer shell at some point, which she suspected that would be more of a wearing-down process than a jackhammer one.

Making sure that José and Garrett had everything under control and were ready for the breakfast rush, Rossie hurried to her tiny office to make a phone call to Morgan. She told him about Sam stopping by, and about how she’d asked Tom Hundman to watch Ryan walk to school.

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