Stutter Creek by Ann Swann

Author:Ann Swann [Swann, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Stutter Creek, 5 Prince Publishing, romantic suspense, Ann Swann, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
Publisher: 5 Prince Publishing
Published: 2013-05-30T00:00:00+00:00

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Shaniqua Patterson hung up the phone. “Fired,” she said. “That girl is so fired.” She pulled Sherylyn’s time card from the stack and headed toward the night manager’s office.

Rapping hard with her closed knuckles, she pushed the metal office door open and entered speaking: “Ms. Deevy, I can’t reach Sherylyn on the phone. This the second day she hadn’t showed up. I’ma go ahead and pull in Dewayne, that part-timer. He’s been wantin’ full time. I’m givin’ him Sherylyn’s shift.” She started out the door without waiting for approval.

Candy Deevy nodded, barely raising her fingers from the keyboard. “Good decision. That’s what I pay you for,” she murmured.

Then a brief memory flashed across her mind. The memory was of Sherylyn talking to a friend in the cashier’s meeting last week. She’d been going on and on about the possibility of moving closer to work so she wouldn’t have so far to drive. She had seemed pretty excited about an apartment that was opening up, even talked about the new apartment having a balcony, said she was looking forward to getting a grill with her employee discount. Doesn’t sound like someone who suddenly quits for no reason, Candy Deevy thought. The girl had plans.

“Hey,” she called before the door closed.

Shaniqua stuck her head back in, a question framing her features.

“You got an emergency contact number?”

“Tried it,” the cashier-manager said bluntly, pulling her head back through the door as if the matter was closed.

“Try it again,” Ms. Deevy ordered. “In fact, send someone to her house. Better yet, you got her landlord’s number?”

On the other side of the door, Shaniqua looked at her watch and rolled her eyes. Sherylyn’s shift started an hour ago. Her register was closed, lines were backing up, and customers were getting cranky. Taking a deep, calming breath, she cracked the door open again. “I don’t have landlord’s numbers. Think she lived in a duplex.”

The night manager sat upright at her battered gunmetal gray desk, her fingers poised over the computer keyboard. “Find out if she’s got a friend that’ll check out her place. If not, keep trying the contact number. I’ve got a feeling she didn’t just not come to work. Might’ve been in a car wreck or something. Can’t be too careful, you know.”

Shaniqua’s feet hurt. She wasn’t a small woman; and she still had seven hours to go on her own shift. “Yes, ma’am,” she sighed. “I’ll see what we can do.” Then she shuffled out into the hall shaking her head. She still had to get in touch with Dewayne, too. Hell, maybe I should have him go by Sherylyn’s house. Nah, him I need on the line, now.

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