Whacked by Adrienne Giordano

Author:Adrienne Giordano [Giordano, Adrienne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ALG Publishing

Dad pulled up in front of Coco Barknell and double parked behind a Franklin police cruiser, also double parked behind Jimmy Two-Toes' new Cadillac. It was a wonder traffic even flowed.

Not waiting for Dad to shut the engine, Lucie hopped out and scooted into the office. Mom was chatting with Joey, who'd planted his butt at Ro's desk. Lucie had called him, asking that he swing by so they could huddle up. With Ro in jail, Lucie needed help and Joey was, much to her own horror, the defacto Ro.

"Hi," she said.

"Hi, honey," Mom said. "Where's your father?"

"He said he needed to talk to one of the guys down at Petey's."

Secretly, she was glad. Did that make her horrible? She'd just spent the last few, surprisingly not miserable, hours with Dad. Now she needed space. And calm. A Zen moment.

With Joey in residence, that Zen moment might be a stretch. "How's everything here? Anything I need to know?"

"Coitus," Joey said, "he's a pain in the ass."

"Joseph. Language." Mom handed over a stack of messages.

Lucie perused the first one. A potential dog walking client. "You say that about all the dogs."

"This time I mean it. You saw it yourself this morning. And listen, the schedule is getting tight."

"I know."

"Then do something about it."

The dog walking side of the business continued to grow, right along with the accessory side. To date, Lucie delegated most of the walking duties and scheduling to Joey, who didn't want to admit he enjoyed the work. She knew. You didn't live under the same roof with someone for most of your life and not know when they were having fun. She'd hired two part-timers to help as well, but their schedules often collided.

"Is it time to suck it up and hire a full-timer?"

Joey propped his feet on Ro's desk. "It's been time for three months. We're maxed out and Lauren is taking extra credits next semester. If anything, her hours will go down."

"I'd hate to lose her, though. She's good with the dogs."

Joey held his hands out. "You're the one wanting to run a Fortune 500 company."

Lucie dropped the messages on her desk. "How about you, Mom? Anything I need to know?"

"Nope. Just another day in paradise. I worked on a few of the samples Ro requested." Mom pointed to the conference table. "They're over there. Once you sign off, I'll start working on production."

Production. Listen to Mom.

Joey stood and leaned against one of the support beams. "Dad called and said you talked to Buzzy's sister? What the hell?"

She spent two minutes bringing them up to speed then paused to gather her thoughts. "I think we need to look into the agent. Based on the money Buzzy made, he can't be happy about being shoved out."

Roseanne had already spent two days—46 hours to be exact—in jail. And weren't the first 48 hours of an investigation the most critical? She'd heard that on television and it seemed to make sense. As time went on and Ro spent more time behind bars, the possibility existed that the police would stop looking for the real killer.

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