The Deadly Art by Tessa Kelly

Author:Tessa Kelly [Kelly, Tessa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tessa Kelly
Published: 2019-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

MARLOWE JERKING THE leash as he strained to run to the body broke the spell.

I pulled him back, my other hand reaching into my pocket for the phone. I searched for my brother’s name, but wooden fingers pressed the wrong number and I had to hang up and start over. Finally, I got him.

“Sandie? What’s up?”

Hearing him on the other end immediately made me feel calmer. Still, my voice trembled. “Will, I’m at the AGER. Please get over here now. It’s Dan Cobbs. He’s dead.”

There was a moment of silence, then his voice came back, urgent. “On my way. Are you still in the building?”

“Yes.”

“Get out of there now. Wait for me out on the street and make sure there are people around.”

He didn’t need to tell me that. The last thing I wanted was to be alone with a dead body.

Marlowe wasn’t as easily convinced, though. I had to tow him out as he whined and barked, and echoes of his protests reverberated throughout the empty corridor as we ran.

Once outside again, the gravity of what I’d just seen hit me like a truck. I bent over with my hands on my knees, trying not to hyperventilate.

Marlowe made an attempt to go back in, then gave up the fight against the leash and came over to lick my face. I patted him with a shaking hand.

“You have a morbid curiosity, my friend.”

We didn’t have to wait long for the police. My brother’s car pulled up five minutes later, followed by two other police vehicles.

Will jumped out before his partner made a full stop and stormed over, yelling before he even reached me.

“What the heck were you thinking coming down here again? Alone. Did our talk mean squat to you?”

I blinked at him towering over me. Automatic words of apology formed on my lips but then stayed there, unuttered as indignation rose its glowering head.

Will had no right to berate me like that. In front of his colleagues, no less.

My voice rang out just as loudly as his. “I don’t go looking for dead bodies, okay? Marlowe and I were out walking and ended up here. And maybe, instead of fighting with me, you should be doing your job.”

“Uh-huh.” Will crossed his hands over his chest and glared at me. “I am doing my job. Unlike you, who’s got no business to be here. And, as part of this doing my job thing, let me get some facts straight. You ambled over with Marlowe for no apparent reason and then you thought, hey! Since I’m here anyways, I'll just sneak into the gallery and snoop around. Never mind that it’s a crime scene, or that I promised my brother not to go near it. Is that how it happened? No, please! Correct me if I’m wrong.”

His rant over, Will raised his eyebrows and waited for me to reply.

Two paramedics went past us into the building, pretending they couldn’t hear us. A CSI woman threw us a surreptitious glance as she walked briskly after them.

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