Dog's Honest Truth (Golden Retriever Mysteries Book 14) by Neil S. Plakcy

Author:Neil S. Plakcy [Plakcy, Neil S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Samwise Books
Published: 2022-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Ghost Work

When I got back to the office with Rochester and Luke, my phone was ringing. “Steve, it’s Jodie. I have Connor Ramirez coming in at four o’clock and I was hoping you could join me in talking to him. Then we’d have two voices at the committee instead of just mine.”

I looked at the clock. “Sure, I can make that. Your office?”

“I’m on the second floor of Fields Hall, towards the back.”

I had worked in Fields Hall myself, with Rochester, but back then I’d had an office on the first floor with French doors that led outside. Now, though, I’d just be visiting, and even though I wished Rochester could meet Connor, it was safer to leave him at Friar Lake.

I walked both dogs back to Joey’s office and this time left them both with him. “You’ve got a lot of travel on your plate today,” Joey said. “Anything wrong?”

“No, just helping Rick answer some questions.”

“Be careful, bud. Doing that has gotten you into trouble in the past.”

“I know,” I said. Joey didn’t know about my hacking, but I’d been threatened and shot at enough times that he had an idea that what I was doing was dangerous. I appreciated that he was looking out for me.

It was only a ten-minute drive into Leighville, and I parked in a faculty lot near Fields Hall. It felt weird to be walking back toward my old office without Rochester by my side, but the beauty of the campus was enough of a distraction. All the deciduous trees were turning color then, and they were a beautiful pastiche of reds, oranges and golds.

The gray fieldstone of the old buildings glowed in the afternoon sun, and kids played frisbee on the lawns or sprawled under trees with books and electronic devices. I had a strong feeling of nostalgia for my own years as a student, when all I had to worry about was getting to class on time, reading my homework and preparing for exams.

Of course life back then wasn’t all about work—I had a bunch of friends who were into mischief, and we drank more than we should have, experimented with the occasional drug, fell into and out of love and lust with a variety of young women who felt the same way about us as we felt about them.

I hoped to bring some of that feeling back to Connor Ramirez, and I climbed the winding stair to the second floor of Fields Hall wondering what he’d be like, and if he’d be worth the limb that Jodie and I were crawling out onto to save him.

Jodie had a small suite of rooms that had originally been bedrooms in the old Fields mansion, though a couple of walls had been replaced with tall windows, giving the area a more open feel. Jodie’s office administrator, a slim African-American woman named Quenesha, sat at a desk in the front, and I let her know I was there to see Jodie.

I took a seat next to a dark-haired kid in an Eastern polo shirt and khakis.

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