Thicker Than Water by Lindy Cameron

Author:Lindy Cameron [Cameron, Lindy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781932859409
Google: M6VoAQAACAAJ
Amazon: B00E7IBUGE
Goodreads: 19153205
Publisher: Clan Destine Press
Published: 2014-11-12T03:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

It was the clock radio that provided the incentive to return from a trek through vine-strangled and crimson Inca ruins, but when Kit woke she found that her legs and arms, and her heart and slowly-rousing mind were completely entangled in the warmth of Alex's body. As Kit nuzzled closer still, pressing her lips against Alex's neck, her whole being smiled with blissful fulfilment and...

The phone rang.

Thistle raised her head from the pillow behind Alex who stirred in her sleep.

The phone kept ringing because Kit was pinned to the bed.

"Noise," Alex complained.

"Arms," Kit requested and, as Alex rolled onto her back and The Cat slid off the pillow, she reached for the phone and croaked, "Hello."

"Kit?" said someone.

"Yes. That's a name I call myself."

"Far, a long long way to run," Alex mumbled.

Kit sat up in surprise and stared at her movie-challenged woman. Alex the Gorgeous offered a sleepy, grey-eyed grin in return.

"But, but you don't know stuff like that," Kit remarked.

"I have many skills, Gabrielle," Alex confessed.

"Yes!" Kit cheered. She would have tried a Xena-ululation to celebrate Alex's confession, but her voice wasn't up to it yet. "Pop culture one; feral religions zero;" she said instead. "We'll make a twenty-first century gal of you yet!"

"Yoo hoo!" It was the phone.

"Yes Rabbit?"

"Um, I need to see you. I think I might know something."

"About what Rabbit?"

"About something I shouldn't."

Kit pinched the bridge of her nose. "Where are you?"

"Outside your office, waiting for you to come to work."

"I'm at work wherever I am, Rabbit. Go to the top of the stairs at the end of the hall and I'll let you in for coffee."

Ten minutes later Kit, Alex and Rabbit settled around the dining table with coffee and toast. Kit had threatened Rabbit with bodily harm if she even tried to talk about anything serious before she'd had her first caffeine fix for the day.

Having made two false starts Rabbit now waited, poised on the blocks, for Kit to take one mouthful...then she was off: "I think I witnessed a murder. Or the lead up to a murder. Or something that happened before a murder, which means he could've just been a witness to a murder too. All of which might be six of one, and the same. But whatever, I'm freaking out; coz this is not like my normal life, you know."

Kit's personal well-being flipped automatically into self-defence mode with her visitor's first sentence. She concentrated her gaze on Rabbit's thumbs, hooked as they were in the straps of her black overalls, as she thought: no more murders; no more bodies; no more crimes; no more criminals. Enough already!

From today O'Malley, you're confined yourself to jobs that involve just watching; like insurance fraud or extra-marital transgressions. You should even consider fidelity testing...

"Are you with us yet, Kit?" Alex asked.

"Yes. Worse luck," Kit widened her eyes.

"Whose murder do you think you witnessed?" Alex asked, to get the ball rolling.

"Dunno," Rabbit shrugged. "Some woman's. And I didn't, like, see the murder, but I saw her with the guy.

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