In Cold Chamomile by Joy Avon

Author:Joy Avon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CROOKED LANE BOOKS

Chapter Eleven

At the police station Callie was happy to see Ace wasn’t in direct view, suggesting he might already be interrogating Sean Strong. She hoped she could avoid him—or at least avoid the impression she had shared her knowledge of the arrest with Iphy immediately after Ace had left her and that they were now here to interfere in the case.

Iphy went to the desk and asked for Deputy Falk. Callie hovered at the door while Daisy pressed against her leg. The dog seemed a bit intimidated by the loud sounds of keyboards clicking, faxes rattling, and phones ringing.

The deputy behind the desk gestured and called something, and to her annoyance, Callie saw Ace appear from the corridor leading to the interrogation rooms. He came over to the desk, spotting Iphy, and looked past her, seeing Callie. Callie wasn’t quite sure what the words were for the expression on his face, but it came close to unpleasant surprise.

Irritation even.

Iphy explained something Callie couldn’t hear, and Ace frowned, as if he wasn’t about to comply. Then he relented and waved her along to an office that wasn’t used. He closed the door behind them.

Callie felt nervous that he hadn’t even acknowledged her with a nod or a wave of the hand, nor asked his colleague to offer her coffee while he was talking to Iphy.

She paced the floor where the sitting area was, too nervous to sit down and look at one of the dog-eared magazines about boating and fishing, littering the low table. Daisy walked beside her, her head tilted in confusion at what on earth they were doing there, but after a while she got tired of it and lay down, putting her head on her paws.

“You’re right, girl,” Callie said with a rueful sigh, “taking it easy is better, but—”

A sound behind her jerked through her, and she whirled around. But it was just an elderly woman entering the station. She stood a moment, looking around her, apparently insecure and perhaps even intimidated by the idea that she was now in a police station. Callie wondered briefly where she had seen her before, but as the Book Tea received countless visitors every day, she assumed it had been there and didn’t pay much real attention. She resumed pacing, checking her watch and determining Iphy had already been in there for seven minutes. It seemed much longer.

Ace’s colleague had gone to the desk to ask the new arrival how he might help her, and the lady started to explain in a quivering voice that she had been to Haywood Hall but had been told there that she had to come to the police station.

“Come here?” the deputy asked. “Do you know something about the murder that happened the other day?”

The woman looked startled. “Oh no. I know nothing about the murder. I had no idea that the man had died until they told me at Haywood Hall. I only want my book back. I will return the twenty dollars he gave me for it.

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