Unleashed: Case of the Collie Flour by Erik Schubach

Author:Erik Schubach [Schubach, Erik]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Erik Schubach
Published: 2017-11-18T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9 – Evidence

We had an early supper, halfway between lunch and dinner... linner, lunner? Where we had heard all about Garrett's clumsy proposal on the climbing wall, and they shared with Jane and me how they met. Then Gar shared why he calls me Flea when Jane had asked. “Because she's always been so small.” This seemed to amuse the detective to no end. See if I label her dresser drawers for her now.

Then everyone moved into the living room while I attacked the dirty dishes. I loved making things clean.

Mom stepped back in. “Hurry up sweetie. It's time for dessert.” She pulled the clear plastic wrap off a freshly baked apple pie and smiled at me as I put away some pots and pans I had washed and dried.

I nodded. “Just about done here mom.”

She looked at the pie and the hall and then said almost cagily, “Jane seems to be a nice, well put together girl.”

I smirked. “She's annoying, sarcastic, overbearing, and a little too smug. But I guess she's ok.”

Mom kept her eyes on me as she smiled and cut the pie like a seasoned professional without really looking. What? She was doing some sort of cryptic mom thing again. I shrugged. “She's nice I guess.”

Her smile grew to a smirk and then she looked at the pie as I moved over to the cupboard and handed her some pie plates from it. At least she kept my organization in the kitchen since I moved out. I grinned at that fact.

I turned back to the sink and squeaked, Jane had somehow snuck into the kitchen with the empty pitcher and glasses and set them by the sink in my distraction, and I found myself face to chest with her again. The lilac and leather should have been an early warning for me. I heated up and took a step back to look up at her smirking face.

I chastised as my heart thudded, “Why do you have to go sneaking around like that and getting in my personal space like that?”

Mom pointed out, “She didn't sneak, sweetie, she walked in plain as day, and it was you who stepped into her personal space.” Why was mom so amused?

Jerk Cop was just as amused when she thumbed over toward mom. “What she said.”

Then I froze when she reached out and pushed a lock of my lazy curls back over my shoulder. I wasn't breathing when a thrill went down my spine, and she was gone, heading back into the living room. Good god it was hot in there, had mom left the oven on?

I finally exhaled, feeling mom's eyes on me and I turned back to the sink to wash the pitcher and glasses as I chanted in my mind, “Leave it be, mom.” I don't know what I would say since I didn't understand my own reactions, so how could I explain it to her.

I asked as a diversion, “So, what do you think of my Calvin?”

After a second, mom replied with a smile in her tone, “He's adorable, Fin.

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