Hello Again by Brenda Novak

Author:Brenda Novak
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

16

Evelyn stopped by the Moosehead on her way home. It’d been such an exhausting day she’d left a little early, but she wasn’t ready to spend the evening alone in Amarok’s bungalow.

“Hey, Doc!” Shorty called as she approached the bar.

The place wasn’t crowded yet, but she knew it’d fill up as the night wore on. Even Wednesdays could get busy.

“Hi, Shorty. Can I get a bowl of your sister’s homemade chili and a piece of corn bread?”

“You bet,” he replied. “Won’t take but a minute.”

She sat at the bar, picking at a bowl of nuts and watching a basketball game on TV while she waited.

“When’s Amarok due back?” Shorty placed her food, along with some silverware and a napkin, in front of her.

“Tomorrow. Why?”

He began wiping down the counter. “Just wonderin’,” he said as he moved away.

It didn’t take much food to fill Evelyn up. After a few minutes she pushed her bowl to one side and put some money out to take care of the bill. She was about to leave when Russell Jones came in and claimed the stool next to her. “Thought I might find you here.”

“Do I hang out here that often?” she asked.

“Since you’ve gotten with Amarok, you come in several nights a week.”

“I guess I do,” she admitted. “And you know that because you come in even more.”

He shrugged. “I like this place. Beats heading home to an empty house.”

“I’m discovering that for myself.”

After pulling the bowl of nuts closer to him, he tossed a few in his mouth. “I hear the polygraph didn’t go so well.”

“Actually, it went far better than I expected.”

“Really? Lido said Bishop broke her computer.”

“He did, but we’ll replace it. And since she kept it backed up, we’ll only lose Bishop’s data.”

“Isn’t that bad enough? You wanted him to take that lie detector test for a reason.”

She decided to linger awhile and have a glass of wine, so she asked Shorty to bring one when he returned to collect her leftovers and dishes. “I got what I needed out of it,” she said to Russ as Shorty walked away.

“Meaning…”

“He knows something about his mother’s death, something that the police never revealed to the public.”

“Is it significant enough to indicate he killed her?”

“I’d say so.”

“Nice. So what are you going to do about it?”

Shorty returned with her wine and put a beer in front of Russ at the same time. They both thanked him before continuing their conversation.

“I’ll share the information with whatever detective takes over the Zombie Maker cases, of course,” she said. “Maybe it’ll convince them to keep an eye on Bishop once he’s back in circulation.”

Russ sucked the foam off his beer. “Doesn’t what we’re doing ever seem like a losing battle to you?”

“I try not to think of it that way. Who knows what we might find and how that might change the world? We only lose if we give up.”

“Whoa!”

Evelyn could tell by the sudden excitement in his voice—and the fact that he’d turned to stare at a tall blonde—that he was no longer talking about work.

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