Paw and Order by Abernathy Chris

Author:Abernathy, Chris [Abernathy, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B0C4FP73K1
Publisher: Wright on the Mark, LLC.
Published: 2023-05-23T00:00:00+00:00

Seventeen

Sheila must have given the police a key to the house. They would have gone in anyway. As Fred used to say, the only difference would be a damaged door and a more suspicious officer. Better to cooperate, especially if you had nothing to hide. Trouble is, I wasn’t sure they wouldn’t find anything. The killer had been in the house at least once, to steal the knife, so they could have also left something. Based on what Officer Reid said, they would be specifically looking, or more accurately smelling, for evidence that Mitch had been inside. If he had been, it was before we moved in. I hadn’t left from the time we arrived until after his murder. I would have known. I had gone outside when Buster burst in with the fish, but I could see Mitch the whole time and he never went in.

I tried to sneak in behind Kojak’s handler, but he closed the door quickly and I was stuck outside. The French doors that showed off the beach view would give me my best look inside so I jogged around back.

It seemed so wrong, spying on my own house. Watching helplessly as a man and a dog poked around everywhere. Kojak was doing his job well, and by the time he was done he would know this house better than I did. We’d only been living here a couple of days. I’d done a basic check when we arrived, but with the movers barging their way around I thought it best to stay out of their way.

His handler opened doors to all the lower cabinets and let Kojak sniff inside. He was really being thorough. When he got to the trash can he opened it, looked inside, and took something out. Some paper, but I couldn’t read it. He put it in an evidence bag, wrote something with a marker, and sealed it. They headed toward the bedrooms.

I wouldn’t be able to see them anymore from here, so I was about to reposition myself at a bedroom window when something caught my eye. Kojak and Officer Reid were not alone in the house! Darting across the floor behind them as they left the kitchen was a small mouse. Now I knew what had been causing that scratching sound the last two nights!

The mouse scurried to a tiny crack in the wall beside the couch and disappeared. It never ceases to amaze me the tight spaces they can squeeze through, I thought. I made a mental note to take care of the mouse problem at a later date. There were more urgent matters to attend to at the moment.

Moving to the side of the house, I jumped onto the window sill, peeked around the curtains, and watched the two officers, K-9 and human, search the bedrooms. No more evidence bags were pulled out.

It looked as though they were wrapping up their search when I heard the click, click, click of stiletto heels on the front porch, followed by the doorbell.

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