The Edge of Everything (The Haven Series) by Oruska Kaitlyn

Author:Oruska, Kaitlyn [Oruska, Kaitlyn]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Kaitlyn Oruska
Published: 2013-11-14T03:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

“Dec?” I called into the house. I’d spent the last five minutes knocking on the door to no avail. His car was in the driveway and there was nowhere within walking distance he could have gone.

I touched the doorknob and found it unlocked, so I stepped into the house and surveyed my surroundings. It was messy, at best. A pizza box on the coffee table, a few empty two liters on the floor. “Declan?” I called again.

“Up here!” He called back, his voice coming from upstairs. I hesitated before stepping over a bottle and heading up the steps. I felt a little relieved, glad I wasn’t about to put my few investigative skills to use and find him dead.

It was Friday and I’d gotten a new assignment, one I was pretty sure I wouldn’t accomplish on my own. I had to find my own news story to report on, citing various sources. It wasn’t necessarily difficult, but I had no idea where to begin. Having a mystery writer as a neighbor could come in handy.

I found him in the room at the end of the upstairs hallway. The layout was very similar to ours, except he had three bedrooms instead of four. I knocked on the open door and waited until he waved me in.

“What’s up?” He asked, not taking his eyes off the screen. A quick glance showed me a blank page. Maybe Declan wasn’t going to be able to offer much help, after all.

“I was going to ask you to help me with this paper I’ve been assigned, but I can see you’re busy.”

He clicked out of the blank document and spun around, smiling tiredly. The dark circles under his eyes were more evident than before and by the way his hair looked I wasn’t confident he’d used a brush in the past two days. I hadn’t seen him since after he cooked us breakfast Wednesday morning.

“I can help,” he said. “I can’t write to save my life, but I can help.”

“It will come,” I assured him, though I knew next to nothing about the writing process. “I need to find a case that isn’t too prevalent in the news media and report on it, cite sources and all that fun stuff.”

“Pull up a chair,” he said, motioning to the corner of the room where a chair almost identical to the one in our bedroom sat. I pulled it over and sat down just as he was pulling up an internet search.

“What kind of crime do you want?” He asked.

“Um, I don’t know.”

“Murder?”

“Sounds creepy.”

“Nah.” He typed something into the search, examined the screen for a few minutes and pulled up an article. “Check this one out. A wife kills her husband after finding out he was having an affair. Classic stuff.”

I glared at the screen. Declan caught me and raised an eyebrow. “You look offended.”

“I’m not.”

“Could have fooled me. Another one?”

I sighed. “No, this one will work. Can you print it?”

“I can.” He hit print and within seconds I was holding the article in my hands.

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