Drop Dead Lola by Melissa Bourbon

Author:Melissa Bourbon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Henery Press;cozy mystery;women sleuths;private investigators
Publisher: Henery Press
Published: 2019-11-16T17:33:18+00:00

My phone buzzed in my hand just as I walked into Megan’s boudoir studio. I held up my finger to her as I answered it. Manny’s voice shot out at me like a flare from a gun. “Dolores, ¿donde estas?”

“I’m, uh, at my cousin’s bachelorette party.”

“Can you leave?”

Well, it would get me out of playing seductress for the camera, but truth be told, I’d finally gotten a little bit excited about the prospect. If Leti had liked it…

But the job came first. “What’s going on?”

“Marnie Haskell is awake.”

Gracias a Dios, she’d survived. “Is she all right?”

“She is asking to talk to you. That is all I know,” he said.

My heart thudded erratically. I ran my fingers through my hair. I couldn’t get there fast enough. “Okay. I’ll meet you at the hospital in—” I had to change. And somehow get back to my car. “Give me thirty minutes.”

“Bueno,” he said, and the line went dead.

I leaned against the foot of the bed, taking a minute to calm myself. Marnie Haskell was alive and wanted to talk to me.

“You’re leaving?” Megan asked.

I stood and turned. Her camera was slung around her neck. She held onto it, hopeful, I think. “I have to. Work.”

My robe hung open and she gestured at me. “No time for even one shot?”

“Another time.”

“I hope so,” she said. “The camera will love you.”

Who knew if that were true or not, but I chose not to acknowledge the statement. I had a recently poisoned and grieving woman to talk to. “Don’t tell my sister I didn’t take the pictures. I’m afraid she’ll back out if she finds out.”

“Mum’s the word,” Megan said.

I thanked her, waved goodbye, then I hurried through the dressing room. Gracie jumped up when she saw me. “You’re done already? That was fast.”

“Yeah, Megan’s great,” I said. It was easier that way. I couldn’t take the time to argue with Gracie, and I didn’t want my failure to take the pictures to influence her not to. I waited, watching to see what she’d do. She looked back at the others. They urged her on with encouragement.

“It’s easy, and so fun!”

“It’s going to be great!”

“If I can do it, you can do it,” Leti said.

That last bit prompted Gracie to smile, nod, and leave us all behind as she went into the studio. And that was my cue to get changed, call Jack, and hightail it to the hospital.

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