Maid in LA Mysteries: The Complete Four Book Set by Holly Jacobs

Author:Holly Jacobs [Jacobs, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Hollyworld Books
Published: 2014-09-16T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

On Tuesday I discovered Julian was a fun companion. I ordered a black coffee and, at his insistence, an apple fritter. It was still warm.

I think that heaven is full of warm apple fritters and hot black coffee.

And of course, ice cream…that goes without saying.

Pattycake herself waited on us. She normally saw me with the boys, and recently with Cal. She looked at Julian and raised an eyebrow, but didn’t say anything.

It turns out Julian and I shared not just a love of all things Brenda Leigh and The Closer’s spin-off, Major Crimes, but any number of other mystery shows. Although we did have some major differences.

“I love to try to figure out who-dunnit,” I said. “It’s so much fun when I get the answer before the characters.”

“Not me. I’m just going along for the ride and enjoying myself,” he said as he took a bite of his bear claw.

“When I’m reading a mystery and think I know who did it, I sometimes skip to the end and check.”

Julian mock-gasped. “No. That’s sacrilege.”

I laughed. “I know, it’s terrible. I think that love of solving the puzzle is what allowed me to figure out what happened to Mr. Banning,” I said, then remembered that Julian was a new friend and didn’t know the story.

At his insistence, I told it.

“Let’s hope you don’t become the next Jessica Fletcher. I mean, I loved Murder She Wrote, but I’ve always thought at some point, she’d stop getting invited anywhere. Who wants to hang out with someone when they’re always stumbling over dead bodies?”

“My one dead body was enough. Although it did bring Cal and me together.”

“So that’s how you met your boyfriend.”

“My maybe boyfriend. He didn’t seem to care I was having coffee with another man.”

“Oh, he cares,” Julian assured me. “He doesn’t care when you flirt with his friend…”

“Big G,” I supplied.

“Yeah. He doesn’t care about that because he trusts you and he trusts his friend. But he definitely cares about you having coffee with me because he doesn’t know me, so he doesn’t trust me.”

“But he said he didn’t care.”

“Quincy, you were married and have three sons, and probably other men in your family. You have to know that just because he said he didn’t care doesn’t mean he doesn’t. He cares a lot. And I think there’s a very good chance you and I are simply destined to be friends. Good mystery friends. Maybe if I’d met you before he met you we could have had a chance at something more, but you care about him.”

I harrumphed.

Julian’s only response was to point at some point beyond my shoulder.

I turned.

There was Cal, glowering in my direction.

“I think we can both safely assume he cares. I think our next get-together will consist of you, me and Cal watching some good mystery show on television.”

Cal walked over. Julian stood. “Hi, Cal. I’m Julian. Quincy and I were just planning a mystery night. Maybe some old episodes of The Closer. And you, of course, are invited.

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