All Things Considered: A Ryn Davis Mystery (Ryn Davis Mystery Series Book 1) by AB Plum

Author:AB Plum [Plum, AB]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PlumBooks
Published: 2019-04-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

“Garrett McCoy? Are you craz— I have hair. What are you talking about?” The walls contracted and Ryn’s knees went weak. Here she was about to over-react one more time. Maybe she was the crazy.

“Yeah, call me crazy—and I’m blind.” Elijah’s hazel eyes darted from corner to corner as if Ryn was hiding the sleazoid reporter under his nose. “That was Garrett McCoy or his evil twin.”

“Isn’t everyone supposed to have a twin in the world?” Ryn rubbed the left side of her chest. Could Elijah see her heart thumping through her shirt? She shook her head. “Must be the pizza sauce that messed up your vision. That was Jack Kent—the neighbor I told you about.”

Elijah filled up the soaring space in the foyer, making Ryn feel like a kindergartner looking up at the principal. “You never told me your neighbor looked like Garrett McCoy.”

“I wouldn’t know the bastard if I met him. So how could I tell you Jack and he look enough like brothers? Separated at birth?”

Elijah didn’t crack a smile. “For my peace of mind, what say we drop by Mr. Kent’s place on the way up?”

“What about the pizzas getting cold?”

“I know how your oven works.”

Ryn shrugged and stepped into the elevator. Elijah’s insistence was grating on her nerves. No way Jack Kent and Garrett McCoy were one and the same. No way. She punched the second-floor button and eased back into one corner. Elijah stood away from the mirrored wall and stared straight ahead at the doors. Ryn’s skin tingled. So Elijah was another male who, like Stone, had to be right all the time.

What was it with men—the need to be right? Genetic?

When the elevator stopped, Elijah didn’t wait for Ryn to precede him into the hall. “Which apartment?”

“Two thousand.” Ryn stepped off the elevator. “He said his neighbor was the odd guy on the floor.

Elijah made a face and shifted the pizza sack. “Funny. Ha. Ha.”

Decorated like the penthouse hall with lots of green plants and a large mirror sided by two chairs, this hallway boasted a little less space than the penthouse hallway.

“Wait here,” Elijah ordered. “Just in case.

Just in case what? Ryn bit her tongue. Elijah’s height must have given him the idea that everyone—except basketball players and tall men in the circus— had to look up to him. Her stomach grumbled. Too bad, Elijah, but she’d invite Jack to join them for pizza. It seemed the least she could do after treating him so rudely.

Elijah waved and rang the bell. By the time Ryn reached his side, he was pushing the bell again. Loud. Insistent. Next, he raised his skillet-fist and pounded the door.

“Must’ve gone back to work,” Ryn said.

“Huh,” Elijah snorted. “If Jack Kent and Garrett McCoy are one and the same asshole, he crawled back under a rock.”

“I think he went back to work.”

“Fine. Here’s my last word on Garrett McCoy. He’s a snake—and as poisonous as they come.”

The smell of tomato sauce and oregano filled the elevator.

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