Marked Down for Murder (Good Buy Girls) by Josie Belle

Author:Josie Belle [Belle, Josie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2014-09-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

“Hi, Dot,” Maggie said as they entered the police station and found Deputy Wilson manning the front counter.

“Hi, Maggie, Claire,” Dot said. She then hurried around the counter to stare at Claire’s shoes. “Where did you get those?”

Claire glanced down at her feet as if she’d forgotten what shoes she was wearing. They were a pair of deep purple suede pumps with gold buckles. “Oh, these old things?”

“Don’t you ‘these old things’ me,” Dot chastised her. “I know the latest in Prada when I see it.”

“Fine. I bartered for them,” Claire said.

“Do tell,” Dot encouraged her.

“Aren’t you on your lunch hour?” Maggie asked Claire.

“Oh, yeah,” Claire said. “Sorry, Dot, no time for shoe talk. I came over to see if Summer wanted any books or magazines while she is . . . er . . . visiting the jail.”

Dot looked at her. “Is that a new service the library is offering?”

Claire nodded. “Very new. The idea came to me while I was remembering how long the days were during my own unfortunate incarceration.”

Maggie had to glance at her feet lest she give away exactly how new the idea was by grinning.

“Well, that’s right nice of you,” Dot said.

“Librarians have layers,” Claire said.

“So long as one of those layers tells me exactly who and how you bartered for those shoes while we walk back to Summer’s cell, it’s all good,” Dot said.

She led the way to the back with Claire and Maggie following her. Dot noticed Maggie and abruptly stopped with one hand on her hip, “Now just where do you think you’re going?”

“To see Summer,” Maggie said.

“Why?” Dot asked. “So you can go all ‘neener neener neener’ on her? Don’t you think the girl is suffering enough? Really, Maggie, I thought better of you.”

“I wasn’t . . .” Maggie began, but Dot cut her off.

“No, you just go sit over by the window where you can’t get into any trouble,” Dot said. “And watch the phone for me.”

“Why?” Maggie pouted. “Is it going somewhere?”

Dot squinted one eye at her and Maggie spun on her heel and slouched over to the hard bench by the window. She huffed when she sat down, but Dot took no notice of her.

“Now, you were saying about bartering,” Dot said to Claire as they disappeared into the back.

Maggie kicked her feet out in front of her. She was pretty sure she had a sulk going on that could only be matched by a two-year-old in the throes of the terribles.

Really, just because she and Summer had scuffed it up before there was no reason to think that Maggie was going to enjoy seeing her locked in a cell. Okay, maybe in the darkest corner of her heart, she might derive a smidgeon of pleasure at seeing Summer suffer, but who could blame her?

The front door to the station opened and Maggie jerked upright. It would not do for Sam to find her there looking sullen. In fact, if it were him, she would be darn lucky she had stayed out front, as in out of it.

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