Bad to the Crone by Amanda M. Lee

Author:Amanda M. Lee [Lee, Amanda M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: WinchesterShaw Publications
Published: 2019-03-05T06:00:00+00:00

I WAS UP AND DRESSED WITH the sun the next morning. I didn’t sleep well, my dreams muddled by a bevy of visuals I didn’t want to lay claim to. Gunner featured in all of them, so I wasn’t exactly thrilled at the idea of seeing him first thing, but my heart gave a jolt at the sound of a motorcycle pulling up outside the cabin and I couldn’t stop my stomach from doing a lone somersault.

I managed to pull myself together by the time he knocked, and when I opened the door I had every intention of taking the motorcycle by the handlebars ... so to speak. I wanted to talk about what was happening between us, get it out in the open and at least see where he stood on the issue. Pretending nothing was happening wasn’t working, and I didn’t want to be the sort of person who ignored an issue until it came back to bite me in the worst possible way.

When I opened the door, though, it wasn’t Gunner I found waiting for me. It was Bonnie ... and I was dumbfounded.

“What are you doing here?” I blurted out before I thought better of it.

“Good morning to you, too,” she said dryly, shaking her head. “I take it you’re not a morning person.”

I didn’t believe anyone was really a morning person. I was convinced it was all an act upbeat people insisted on putting on so they could pretend to be something they weren’t. No, truly. There’s no way being a morning person is a real thing.

“I’m sorry,” I offered, rubbing my hands over the front of my jeans as I tried to gain control of my emotions. “I didn’t mean that the way it came out.”

“No?” Bonnie looked amused. “How did you mean it?”

“I just ... expected someone else.” I forced myself to voice the obvious. “I thought I was working with Gunner. That was the impression I got yesterday, anyway.”

“That was my assumption, too,” she said, blasé. “I only know that Gunner had something come up — I guess it’s top secret or something because they didn’t tell me what it was — and he was called away. Rooster doesn’t want you working on your own because of the way the body was found, so he sent me to be your backup.”

That was great. I simply had no idea what she was supposed to back me up on. “He had something come up?” I was instantly suspicious. “What?”

“I already said I don’t know.”

“Yeah, but ... you must have heard. Did some paranormal creature decide to build a nest in his backyard? I’m confused about when this emergency could’ve possibly come up.”

Bonnie was taken aback. “I don’t know. He doesn’t run his schedule by me. You’ll have to ask him.”

The expression on her face told me I was overstepping ... and in a big way.

“I’m sorry,” I said hurriedly, fighting to control my agitation. “I wasn’t trying to be a pain. It’s just ... I was confused.

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