The Square Root of Murder (Professor Sophie Knowles) by Madison Ada

Author:Madison, Ada [Madison, Ada]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2011-07-04T22:00:00+00:00

One shower later, I walked in on Bruce cleaning up a carton of broken eggs and spilled OJ in the kitchen. It seemed that he had lost control of the groceries at the first Shriek. Bark. I couldn’t help be amused—now that I was safe and sound with my honey—that my hero emergency worker, Air Force vet, crisis-trained medevac pilot boyfriend had been thrown by a suburban burglar alarm. Not that I would mention it to him again. He’d explained it very well—it was different when it was personal.

While he was cooking, I coaxed him into telling me about his drill partnering with the Marines.

“Like I said on the phone, it was very cool, even for Air Force guys like me and Bodie. I really wish they’d make more USAF movies, though. It’s always the army or the Marines that are the stars, like Platoon and Full Metal Jacket.”

“There’s the guy in Little Miss Sunshine,” I volunteered.

“The whacko guy who won’t talk until he gets into the Air Force Academy? Thanks a lot. Anyway, in real life there’s this training site down the Cape for mountain warfare and they do mock evacuations every quarter. This time we were asked to join forces, which makes sense. In a real evacuation, it would take every agency in the area to pull together.”

Bruce had begun the omelets, a Sunday morning tradition. He shook a spatula at me. “You’re reaching now. I should have known you were stalling when you encouraged the movie talk.”

In reality, I hated to hear about Bruce’s flights. A few years ago in the southwest a medical helicopter crashed during a training mission. The entire crew had been killed. I’d just met Bruce and spent many sleepless nights worrying after that. Now sometimes I took for granted that Bruce was no more at risk up in the air than I was tooling along the highway.

“When’s breakfast?” I asked, pushing happy thoughts in front of depressing ones.

“In two minutes breakfast will be served and it will be your turn for a full report.”

“Okay.”

Fair was fair.

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