Virtually Impossible by Lauren Stewart

Author:Lauren Stewart
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Off the Hook Publishing
Published: 2016-07-04T07:00:00+00:00

22

ANDI

WHEN I TOLD Rob the news about Tim, and that I’d found a way to prove Tim was a dickhead without bringing Rob or me into it at all, the gratitude in his voice was palpable. Then Emilia grabbed his phone and put it on speaker, so I got to hear him explain the entire thing to her and then listen to her verbally beat him up for being stupid, not telling her earlier, and dragging me into it. Eventually, I hung up to give them some privacy. When Rob called me back a while later, they both apologized and thanked me.

The last thing I deserved was their gratitude. I mean, it wasn’t as if I hadn’t gotten something out of it. Plus, I’d broken a whole bunch of promises and laws to do it, so I put a quick end to their undeserved appreciation, said goodbye, and went to bed.

’Power and money make men do awful things.’

‘True,’ I typed. ‘Although, you have a ton of power and money. So why aren’t you a douchebag?’

‘Oh, I am. Not sure how you missed it.’

I laughed. ‘I miss a lot of stuff.’

‘You mean like me not being a bird-loving dead man?’

Oh shit. ‘You had to bring that up, didn’t you?’

‘Of course. I’m a douchebag, remember?’

It had only taken a day for Hayden and me to slip back into our normal working relationship. It had taken two more days for us to start a different kind of relationship, one where he felt obligated to check in with me regularly for no apparent reason other than boredom. A week and a half later, I couldn’t get rid of him. Not that I’d tried very hard, of course.

I tried. ‘Unless you really start paying me to giggle, I should get back to work.’

‘Am I annoying you?’

‘Yes.’ No. If anything, it was annoying that I didn’t get annoyed by his constant interruptions.

‘Then I’ll try to stop. But I’m fairly sure I’ll fail.’

I chewed on my lip for a second. ‘You annoy me because you’re impossible to understand.’

‘Am I? I feel like a very simple man to understand. You must be confusing me with someone else.’

Yeah, right. ‘That’s probably it. People like you are a dime a dozen.’

When I heard a knock on the door, I quickly typed, ‘Gotta go,’ and went to answer it without waiting for his response. My stomach dropped when I saw who was standing there.

Flashback moment of the worst kind. Same detective, same nondescript clothing, but now his hair was a little grayer and his wrinkles a little deeper. Unfortunately, he probably wasn’t here for a social call.

“Hello, detective. Long time, no see.” Long time no want to see. Or talk to. Or think about. Detective Williams reminded me of a huge chunk of my life I’d love to forget. Not that I could, but boy would it be great.

“How have you been, Andrea?” Hearing my full name again after so long killed any pleasant nostalgia I had left. I imagined a bunch of suitcases with tags that read: Andrea.

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