Pink Blooded: A Lana Pink Mystery by Crystal Gallagher

Author:Crystal Gallagher [Gallagher, Crystal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pink Planet Publishing
Published: 2016-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Almost A Working Girl.

In spite of it being almost-winter, Tree Valley was encased in a sunshine and heat so bright that it was practically tropical.

I pulled my shades on -- not just for a look this time, I actually needed them -- and walked through the palm-tree filled esplanade of Tree Valley Plaza where people were laughing and eating without a care in the world, sucked up all the envy I had in my body, and headed on up to May's firm where she was waiting for me on the fourth floor.

"Yikes," I said, looking around May's almost-empty office, which was now mostly filled with cardboard boxes, the expensive furniture returned to the rental store where it was leased from, I supposed. Or it had been sold to pay the credit card bills.

"Nothing is final," May said, though she was packing up files and throwing them into the boxes. "But it is better to be prepared." That was always May's M.O, to stay three steps further ahead than necessary. I preferred to stay three steps behind. Less effort involved. "Don't panic yet." She straightened up and brushed the hair out of her face, trying to look calm. "I'm not."

"So what happens now?" I asked, kicking a cardboard box gently. "Do I still have a job?"

I wasn't sure whether I wanted the answer to be yes or no.

"Yes..." May said, glancing around. "Actually I want to hire you to do a job right away."

Great, I thought, unaware if even the voice in my own head was sarcastic or sincere. "What is it?"

May walked over to the window and gazed out at the beach as she picked up a figurine of a ballet dancer off the window sill and ran a dust cloth over it before throwing it in a box. "But it's off the books. While we are in liquidation I can't have any of this official, okay Lana?"

I cocked my head at her. "This doesn't sound like the kind of respectable job you wanted me to be doing."

"I know," she said, digging through her purse for a pile of cash which she then shoved into my hands. I can never say no to a pile of cash, no matter how dangerous the task required to earn it is. "But this is what I need you to do for me right now. Can you handle it?" There was the hint of tears in her eyes which made me uncomfortable. May never cried. Parents aren't supposed to cry in front of their kids.

I nodded quickly. "Of course," I said. "Whatever you need me to do, May." I shoved the cash into my pocket and waited for her instructions, feeling a little like a Charlie's Angel. My heart beating faster at the thought that I was about to get my first official -- unofficial -- almost-investigation job.

May gulped.

"I need you to follow the Mayor. Harris."

Not what I was expecting for my first job. I certainly hadn't expected May to turn against her own boyfriend.

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