Murder at the Waterfront: A Northwest Cozy Mystery (Northwest Cozy Mystery Series Book 7) by Dianne Harman

Author:Dianne Harman [Harman, Dianne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2018-05-17T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

When Luke Robertson took the call from his co-worker Rob asking if he could meet Al at the Waterfront Palace, he was pounding the streets of Seattle on his morning run. He did ten miles every day, rain or shine, and timed his route through the city so he ended up at his favourite coffee shop near his downtown address when it opened at 7:30 a.m.

That Sunday, he decided to go in and have breakfast. When he got home, he knew he’d barely have time for a quick shower before heading out again to meet Al. It might be a while before he got the chance to eat again.

He ordered at the counter and took a seat by the window to wait.

“Are you sure you don’t mind working today?” Rob had asked him when they spoke. “Al said if you’ve already made plans, not to cancel them.”

“It’s fine,” Luke assured him. “I wasn’t doing anything special.”

Rob briefed him on the details of the murder, the victim, and that she was known to Al through Mr. Carlucci and his wife, who had hired them to investigate. Luke said he would be there as soon as possible.

The truth was, Luke was glad for any excuse to go to work. Weekends were the worst, when he felt his overwhelming grief the most. The quiet apartment, the empty space on the other side of the bed. And most of all, the silence. No laughter, no back and forth chatter. Even an argument would have been welcome, if it meant Luke could hear Megan’s voice one more time. He had no plans, and not just for the day, but he simply had no plans for the rest of his life. When his fiancée had been murdered in April of that year, Luke’s future was buried with her. He hadn’t quite gotten around to plotting out a new one yet.

“Here’s your cappuccino,” the waitress said as she set a steaming mug of frothy coffee on the table. “And here’s your avocado toast.” She gave him a lingering smile, and he noticed her quick glance at his bare ring finger. “Can I get anything else for you?”

Luke looked up at the young woman, a curly-haired blond with a cute pigtail and a smattering of freckles across her cheeks. He could tell when women were checking him out, and he shifted in his chair. “Um, that’ll be all, thanks,” he mumbled.

It wasn’t that he was shy, but women flirting with him made him feel awkward. They were so...obvious. He’d been absent from the dating scene for a long time, ever since he’d been with Megan, and starting over wasn’t something that was at all appealing to him. Nor was it a priority. When he wasn’t working, sleeping or eating, he was either running or at the gym. The odd time he did venture out socially, it was usually with Briana, who he’d grown close to after he was involved in rescuing her when she’d been kidnapped following Megan’s death.

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