Breezy Spoon Diner Box Set Collection by Tracey Quinn

Author:Tracey Quinn [Quinn, Tracey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Publisher
Published: 2019-10-29T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Google turned out to be as stingy with me on information about Jordan Burns as it had been with Pearl and Jackie. All I found out was that a Jordan Burns worked at a brokerage firm with a Newtown address, but no personal information was listed. I decided to call the brokerage firm and pretend to be interested in... brokering something, I guess, and see if I could find out anything about him.

A pleasant secretary with a musical voice answered the phone and I stumbled through my lame rehearsed story, but I had barely begun when she offered sweetly to connect me to Mr. Burns. A moment later I was talking to a pleasant man with a warm, friendly voice, and a moment after that I was hanging up the phone with an appointment to see Jordan Burns at his office tomorrow afternoon. It was a very efficient process, but I wasn't entirely sure what had just happened. I had a meeting, but I still knew almost nothing about him, and I wasn't even sure if meeting him would get me anywhere either. I guess I would find out tomorrow afternoon.

When I looked up at the clock it was twenty til two, almost time for my shift to end. I figured I would stop by Molly's Yarns on the way home and see what Suze could tell me about those two customers of hers. Mark was working a 24 hour shift today, presumably eating and sleeping at the firehouse which meant I could go home and not have to answer questions about my eye. With any luck at all my eye would be less swollen by tomorrow and some artistically applied make-up would do the trick. I'd pick out a tight shirt that showed a bit more cleavage than usual and I'd be home free. Men are so easy to fool.

Just then I saw Dora Crenshaw, one of the 67 year old waitresses at Hotters walk in. Normally I'd hide in the office until she left so that she wouldn't talk my ear off, but this time I hurried up to her and said, “Well hi, Dora, long time no see. Let me find you a booth.”

Dora crossed paths with a lot of the more unsavory people in town, and was only too happy to gab about them to anyone who would listen. Not usually something I'm eager to sit through, but one of the unsavory people she knew was Olivia, and I wanted to find out anything I could. Dora is a total narcissist and I knew she wouldn't ask any questions about my eye. In fact if I were in a body cast she'd be so involved with talking about herself that she wouldn't notice, or if she did notice she wouldn't care.

“What can I get you, Dora? Are you here for lunch?” I asked.

“Oh, no, Dani, just a pot of tea and a chat if you have the time.”

There's another nice thing about Dora. I am

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