The Ghost Who Dream Hopped by Anna J McIntyre

Author:Anna J McIntyre [Holmes, Bobbi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Anna J McIntyre

Twenty-One

Police Chief MacDonald sat alone at a Pier Café booth, looking through the menu, when Carla walked up to his table, order pad in one hand and a pot of coffee in the other.

“Hey, Chief. You waiting for anyone?” Flipping over one cup with the hand that held the order pad, Carla then filled it with coffee.

“No, it’s just me.” MacDonald closed the menu.

She set the pot of coffee on the table and then pulled a pen from where she had tucked it behind one ear, hidden in her lime green hair. “You eating?”

The chief leaned back in the booth, his hands resting on the closed menu before him. “That’s why I’m here.”

“I just meant, you aren’t going to run out on me like Brian and Joe did yesterday, are you?”

“You know how it is, Carla. Happens sometimes.”

Carla set the order pad and pen on the table and sat down across from the chief. “I heard they’re the ones who found Beverly Klein. Is that where they went after they left here?”

“News travels fast in this town.”

Setting her elbows on the tabletop, she rested her chin on balled fists. “I just don’t know what is happening to Frederickport. But all this crime recently. What are you going to do about it, Chief?”

“I’d like to start by having some lunch.”

“And then those stupid crank phone calls.”

MacDonald frowned. “What crank phone calls?”

“Some jerk keeps calling in and telling Earl they found my hair in their food. Oh, they don’t say it’s my hair exactly, just that it’s pink or purple.”

“And…you don’t think maybe…”

Carla straightened up, her chin leaving its perch as her hands went down to the table. “If you are suggesting my hair is getting in the food…well, that is ridiculous! I just carry the plates from the window to the table. Not like my hair’s hanging over the food. Anyway, the last joker got the color wrong, so now Earl believes me.”

“Practical jokers maybe?”

“Not so funny if I lose my job.”

“I don’t think I can help you with prank callers. You might want to contact the phone company. But I would like to see what I can do about Beverly’s attacker—if I can get some food first.”

With a sigh, Carla stood back up and picked up the order pad and pen. “Is Beverly going to be okay?”

“They released her from the hospital this morning.” The chief picked up the menu and opened it again. “I think she’s going to be fine.”

“Maybe she’ll just move now,” Carla said under her breath.

He looked up from his menu. “What do you mean?”

Carla shrugged. “I heard she was going to move after Steve died. But she obviously changed her mind.”

“The way you say that, sounds like you’d like her to move.”

“It’s just that lately she’s been coming in here a lot. This is where I work. I have to be here. I just don’t know why she can’t find somewhere else to eat.”

“Carla, she has the right to eat where she wants. Does she cause a problem when she comes in?”

Carla shrugged again.

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