Misfit Mutts and Mayhem by Carly Winter

Author:Carly Winter [Winter, Carly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Westward Publishing

Chapter 11

I took a deep breath and attempted to control the panic welling within me.

“And you know this… how?” I asked.

“Nico, my guy on the inside of the department,” he said. “Mallory wanted to arrest you today, but he convinced her to gather more evidence.”

“What evidence do they have against me right now?” I asked. “That DNA must have come back as someone else.”

“It was a blonde hair and it’s yours.”

I glanced in the rearview mirror. Yup. Still had blonde hair. I shook my head. “That doesn’t make any sense.”

“Gina, your hair was found at the crime scene!” he yelled. “How the heck did it get there if you weren’t there? You know better than to poke around like that!”

“I didn’t go into the office where Kevin was killed,” I said calmly. “I swear to you, I didn’t.”

“She didn’t, Trevor,” Daisy yelled. “I was there.”

My talking dog wouldn’t be any help whatsoever in a court of law. In fact, she would most likely be a hinderance because everyone would think I was one marble short of a set when I announced I could hear my dog speaking to me. I hadn’t even confided in Trevor that Daisy and I were having conversations!

“Then how did your hair get in there?”

We sat in silence. Pursing my lips, I tried to think of a suitable explanation. None came to mind. “I… I don’t know,” I finally whispered. “Let me call you back when I get home.”

“Where are you?”

“I’ll call you in a few.”

After setting the phone down on the passenger seat, I pulled out onto the highway again, thoroughly perplexed about how I’d ended up in the situation. I replayed my interaction with Rainy at the bar. At first, I thought she’d maybe picked up some of the water I’d spit out and placed it in the office. But no. A hair had been found.

She’d touched my shoulder. Had she gotten a loose hair caught in a ring? Or maybe she’d meant to grab it?

Once I’d recovered from my coughing fit at the bar, she’d led me to the hallway so I could see the murder scene. Maybe I’d been standing in front of an air duct and a hair had blown into the office?

“It’s time for me to talk to Rainy again,” I muttered.

As I arrived at my street, I noted a police cruiser up ahead. It turned down another street, and I appreciated the sheriff’s department patrolling my neighborhood, even if nothing ever happened. I’d like to keep it that way.

Once we were home, I took off Daisy’s vest and she immediately ran into the living room to roll around on the carpet. “This feels so good!” she yelled. “It’s getting all the scratches!”

As I watched her flip flop around, I tried to accept the fact that Rainy may have set me up to take the fall for Kevin’s murder. And if that were the case, then she was the killer.

There wasn’t another explanation.

“Can you please feed me now?” Daisy asked. Something in the carpet had caught her attention.

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