Old-Fashioned Murder by Jenna St. James

Author:Jenna St. James [James, Jenna St.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-05-03T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

“Thanks for letting us stay tonight.” I grabbed the bowl of freshly popped popcorn off the kitchen counter while Garrett grabbed two bottled waters out of the refrigerator.

Garrett chuckled. “When I said yes, I thought it was just going to be you. I didn’t realize we’d be babysitting Aunt Shirley.”

“I don’t need no stinking babysitter,” Aunt Shirley yelled from the living room. “I can hear you. You realize that, right?”

Garrett grinned wickedly at me but spoke to Aunt Shirley. “Yep. That’s why I said it loud enough for you to hear.”

I gave him a light slap on the arm. “Play nice. I couldn’t just leave her at my place alone overnight.”

“Yes, you could. You realize she’s a grown woman who has lived on her own for years.”

After the run-in over at Sheri’s house, I didn’t want to take my chances of Sheri finding out and coming after us. I’m not sure how I convinced myself she might find out, but I did. And Aunt Shirley’s constant whining about being left alone for the killer to get her didn’t help. Of course, I couldn’t explain that to Garrett unless I wanted to be thrown in jail for breaking and entering.

Instead of replying, I shifted the bowl to the side, stood on tiptoe, and leaned in and kissed him. The feel of his rough lips on mine gave me instant goosebumps.

“What’s keeping you so long?” Aunt Shirley bellowed. “My beer wants some popcorn.”

Garrett and I both growled. I wanted nothing more than to drop the popcorn and go straight upstairs. Instead, I was being summonsed to watch Aunt Shirley’s favorite movie, Dirty Harry.

“Later,” Garret whispered against my lips.

“I’ll hold you to that.”

Fortunately, later was much sooner than I thought. Aunt Shirley’s downfall was stretching out on the couch with a pillow. She didn’t even make it ten minutes into the movie before she started snoring. Garrett clicked off the TV, and I draped a blanket over her.

Garrett stood at the bottom of the curved staircase and motioned me over. He wrapped his arm around me and we walked up the stairs silently so we didn’t wake Aunt Shirley.

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