Creeping with the Enemy by Kimberly Reid

Author:Kimberly Reid
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2012-03-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

When Lana gets back from the Atlanta PD, I realize I’ve spent an entire day on the Net and turned up nothing. I feel like a bum not only because my research time meant I didn’t hang out with my grandparents as much as I should have, I also wasn’t able to tell Lana how I single-handedly solved her big case. I was planning to produce proof of my theory that Bethanie was a local math genius in Atlanta on the run from something I haven’t figured out yet, but who was followed to Denver by Lana’s missing witness because he wanted to use her math skills to win lots of money gambling, like Tom Cruise’s character in Rain Man. Seriously, that is what I was planning to tell her until this very moment when I realize it sounds insane without proof. I already checked our room. No sign of her case files anywhere. I guess after my snooping last night, she’s on to me.

Since I couldn’t find any proof on the Net, I need to go right to the source. I find Lana downstairs in the kitchen with my grandmother, helping her clean chitlins at the kitchen sink. The stench hit me before I even got to the kitchen, and yet they’re laughing and having a good old time standing over a sink full of pig innards. Yuck!

“You want to help us clean these?” my grandmother asks like she’s offering me tickets to a sold-out Jay-Z concert. “We can make room for you.”

“Uh, no, I’m fine over here.”

“What Southern girl doesn’t like chitlins?”

“I was raised in Colorado. People there don’t even know what that is. For good reason.”

“But you were born here,” my grandmother reminds me, “and you still got South in your blood. You don’t know what you’re missing.”

Yeah, I’m pretty sure I do. But I play nice because I need some information from Lana.

“So how did work go today? Any closer to catching that guy?”

“No closer.”

“Any new leads?”

“Nothing new.”

Okay, this is getting me nowhere. Lana usually likes to talk a little about her cases, and she wasn’t holding out on me last night, but now she’s all super quiet. Probably because Grandma’s around. She never liked Lana being a cop, thought it was too dangerous for a single mother. She’d really hate it if she knew how much Lana shares her job with me or knew how I secretly want to be a cop—if I can just get over my serious dislike of confrontation and my wussiness in general. I leave them to their mother-daughter bonding over pig intestines and go find my grandfather in the backyard splitting wood.

“Baby girl, you finally come out of your room to visit with me?”

“Sorry I’ve been AWOL. Trying to keep up with schoolwork since I missed a few days.”

“Reminds me of your mama. She stayed in that room all the time, too, when she got to be about your age.”

I can’t imagine that since when she was my age, she was about to get pregnant with me.

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