Bite Me (Devlin Haskell 3) by Faricy Mike

Author:Faricy, Mike [Faricy, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781477588772
Google: -9JfLwEACAAJ
Amazon: B0087FB48C
Publisher: Mike Faricy
Published: 2012-05-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Six

It was about eight-thirty. We were sitting in front of the infamous laptop at the end of my dining room table. Remnants of our twelve minute, conversation-less, egg plant lasagna and garlic bread dinner were scattered at the opposite end of the table. I was drinking decaf, my second, Sunnie was on her third glass of wine. The first two had done nothing to improve her attitude. I was manning the controls on the laptop getting the intro tutorial to her computer 101 class.

“You’re kidding me. All I had to do was plug the thing in?”

Sunnie twitched a smile for half a nanosecond, suggesting anything but pleasure.

“Okay, so I want to look up marriage records, actually a marriage, as in one,” I said.

“Where?”

“Minnesota, I think.”

She sighed.

“Probably Minnesota, yeah, pretty sure, Minnesota.”

“County?”

“I’m guessing Ramsey.”

She stared at me a moment.

“Okay, do a search, type in…”

“Search?”

“Move your cursor up to here.” She pointed with a pen to a box on the screen. “Okay, now type in Minnesota, then Ramsey County, marriage license, do you have a date?”

“No, that’s actually what I’m looking for.”

“Do you happen to have the names of the individuals?” She said this in a tone that suggested she was using quite a bit of her self control.

“Click on this box. Right, now type the names in there.”

I entered Thompson Barkwell.

Okay, now click here on search, again. Okay.”

I looked over at her, she continued to stare at the screen, stone faced.

“Sunnie, something’s bothering you, even I’m picking up on it and I’m really bad at picking up on signals from women.”

She ignored me and tapped the screen with her pen. “Thompson Barkwell married to a Katherine Early. That who you’re looking for?”

I nodded, reading the screen.

“There’s your date, looks like a little over a year ago. That all you needed?”

“Yeah, now you want to tell me what’s bugging you?”

“No.”

“No?”

“Thanks for dinner, I’ve got work to do. I’ll expect the lap top back in the near future,” she said, grabbing her purse off the couch and heading for the door.

“Thanks for your help, Sunnie,” I called. “Nice chatting,” I added after she slammed the door behind her.

Kiki and Thompson were married thirteen months and eleven days ago. It was a toss up who fled the scene first, my money was on Kiki. Only because Thompson Barkwell struck me as the type of guy who would have put up with a lot, anything as a matter of fact, once he found a woman crazy enough to go out with him twice let alone marry him. ‘Crazy enough’ seemed to sum up Kiki.

I stared at the search window on the laptop screen. I was home for the night with a table full of dirty dishes, waiting for a computerized phone call from the monitoring service. What to do, what to do? I typed in XXX and clicked search.

The call from the monitoring service came through about two and a half hours later. Time flies when you’re having fun. A computerized female voice instructed me to; “Please input my personal code, then press pound.

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