Death Sends a Message (The Thea Kozak Mystery Series, Book 11) by Kate Flora

Author:Kate Flora [Flora, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ePublishing Works!

TWENTY-TWO

Once fed, Mason was happy to hang out in Rosie’s lap, looking at his new world. Rosie was very happy with the program, too, so I headed out to the barn to tell Andre where I was going. His hesitation made me nervous, but I figured it was just because he wasn’t sure about handling Mason on his own.

“You’ve got Rosie,” I said. “You’ll be fine.”

I watched him decide not to worry me by sharing whatever other concerns he had. Maybe the same concerns that had caused me to look out the window for strange cars. But I wasn’t bringing Mason with me, and if there were bad guys lurking, Mason was their target, not me.

Ugh! What a horrible thought, that little Mason might be someone’s target when his only fault was that he’d been born to me and Andre, a pair of professional trouble magnets. Too bad there was no way we could tell the source of our mysterious threat that we did not have Addison Shirley’s baby.

Before I could have second thoughts, I grabbed my purse and briefcase and got in my Jeep. It felt odd to be leaving my baby behind, but I pushed that thought away and focused instead on what I’d need from our files to best prepare Suzanne for the job. The office was twelve minutes away. If I drove fast, and I should be in and out in less than ten.

Of course, I got behind the world’s slowest driver, the insecure sort who brakes for every curve and slows down going uphill as though there were monsters lurking just over the crest. And of course, because I was feeling anxious, it seemed like once I passed that idiot‍—Andre and I call them “meanderthals”—another car loomed up in my rearview and hung there much too closely, even though I was well over the speed limit. My heart rate didn’t settle until the jerk passed me in a no-passing zone and almost hit an oncoming truck head-on.

This drive was doing nothing for my anxiety. No one tells you that when the stork brings that baby, it also brings a lifetime of worry. If we truly knew what we were getting into, would any of us have kids? I thought of Mason’s big brown eyes and knew I would do it again in a heartbeat.

After fifteen tense minutes, I was at the office. I parked on the curb by the door‍—it was a Sunday and no one was going to be policing my parking‍—and ran inside, scurrying up the stairs like someone was chasing me.

I dropped my briefcase on my desk and headed to the files, quickly finding the file for Stonegate. I pulled out the two reports I needed, plus two memos I’d written for them explaining how to use the plans we’d devised, and headed for the copy machine. Since it was Sunday, I had to wait for the beast to warm up. At least it was working. In the past, we had a copier that required a full-time technician to keep it running.

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