Deadly Paths by Jack Parker

Author:Jack Parker [Parker, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-03T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

"He can't do that!" Steve exclaimed. "Can he do that?"

Grace wasn't sure, because she had never seen it before, but Steve appeared to be whining.

"I'm afraid he can," Grace said, folding her arms across her chest as she looked down into the set known as "the blue room".

"But - but why?" Steve stammered. "Has anyone ever done this before?"

Grace turned away from the one way glass she was looking through and raised an eyebrow at Steve.

"What's wrong, Steve?" she teased. "Were you betting on the guy or something?"

This drew a chuckle from the four technicians in the room. It only took a small crew to run the show from a closed set like the blue room, and the fewer people that actually knew the order in which contestants were voted off the better. The producer had to be on hand to make sure the voting was fair and did not remove too many players, but to Grace this was always the easiest part of the show. I'll just have to accept that this particular season is never going to be easy.

"No Grace, this isn't funny. Don't you see what this means?"

"Steve," Grace warned. "You're supposed to be the calm one."

"Sorry," Steve said as he found a rolling chair and made a show of relaxing into it. He was not very convincing, however, as his right leg was bouncing like it had its own motor.

Her executive producer glanced sidelong at the technicians, who were pretending not to be interested in the conversation by going about their duties shutting down all the equipment. Grace shooed them away.

"Ok boys, wrap it up. You're done. We'll shut down the rest."

Only one of the technicians, the Avatar controller, even hesitated. He turned to look back when he reached the door, and it took a small nod and flippant wave to get him to leave.

"Alright, why does my executive producer have his panties in a bunch?" she asked as the door clicked closed. "Did it finally sink in thar we were just recently visited by two detectives investigating a homicide suddenly sink in?"

"You're not far off, actually." Steve replied. "Jake, or whatever his name is—"

"I think it's—"

"He'll be sent straight home, right?"

Grace yawned and nodded, poorly covering her mouth with the edge of a fist.

"Sorry. Yes. First flight in the morning. Why?"

Steve stood and smoothed a trembling hand through his hair.

"Because if he really did have something to do with that dead bride then he'll be skipping town, and we could be brought up on charges for obstruction!"

Grace blinked. She had to cough out the marble sized ball of angry air lodged in her throat before she could growl at the man.

"Oh now you're worried about that? What happened to pretending we didn't know anything until after we knew more about what Jake and Nova were up to last night?"

"How was I supposed to know they'd both go from the top of the rankings to one of them being voted off!"

With her throat clear again Grace began to yell, jabbing a finger at the center of the ignorant man's lavender tie.

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