Stonechild and Rouleau Mysteries 4-Book Bundle: Shallow End Tumbled Graves Butterfly Kills Cold Mourning by Chapman Brenda

Author:Chapman, Brenda [Chapman, Brenda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459739772
Amazon: B01N5906EH
Goodreads: 34838338
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: 2017-03-20T07:00:00+00:00

Three calls later, Gail stood up from her desk and stretched her arms toward the ceiling. The last caller was a first-year biology major whose girlfriend left him on the weekend. He’d drunk himself into a depression and was thinking about dropping out of school. She’d convinced him to seek a counsellor, or at least he’d said he would call the number she gave him. She’d done all she could.

Pleasure spread through her veins like warm treacle. Damn, she was good at this job. There was something about the anonymity of the calls that kept her from feeling judged and let her say things she never would say face to face. The pain at the other end of the line was something she’d lived. She said the comforting things to them that she would have liked someone to have said to her on those days she’d thought about killing herself in high school.

She looked across at the clock on the wall and saw it was going on eight-thirty. Where had the evening gone? Her eyes swung back to the empty desk across from her. And where the hell was Wolf? He’d become unreliable after he broke up with Leah, mooning around as if they were still a couple. Now he was all but lost in action.

Something cracked like a gunshot against the front door. Gail jumped at the noise, banging her knee against the desk. Her eyes swung toward the door and her mind started scrambling as she remembered that she hadn’t checked the lock.

She took a step toward the door, then moved back to her desk and searched around in the drawer until her hand wrapped around a pair of scissors. She pulled them out and started back toward the door, walking as silently as she could across the floor. The detached, rational part of her thought about how ridiculous she was being, but the scared part of her was running the show.

She reached the door and held up her hand to test the handle. Slowly, slowly, she levered it down until it wouldn’t move any farther. Relief made her weak. She let out her breath and slumped backwards against the wall. Nate had remembered after all. She was locked safely inside and whatever had hit the door was likely thrown by a passing student. She laughed at her fear of a moment before and pushed herself forward from the wall.

A sharp knock on the door behind her stopped Gail mid-stride. Her heart jumped like a frightened rabbit and she shrieked. She swung her fist up to her mouth and stifled a second scream. Once she got her emotions under control, she tiptoed back to the door and leaned her ear against the wood. The solid feel against her skin gave her strength.

“Is that you, Wolf?” she asked. No answer. “Wolf?” she yelled.

A man’s voice penetrated the door. “Yes,” he said and she let her breath out in one long sigh. Wolf had shown up after all. Damn the man for scaring her … and for being so late.

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