Dying for Danish by Leighann Dobbs

Author:Leighann Dobbs [Dobbs, Leighann]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, Mystery, cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Lexy sat in her car in the retirement center parking lot thinking about the messages Jack had left on her phone. The mid-fall sun beat through her windshield raising the temperature in the car to summer like levels. The Danish she had polished off inside, suddenly felt like a lead weight in her stomach.

She stared at the cell phone in her hand. She wanted to call Jack but the thought of talking to him sent her stomach in a tailspin. She did want to clear the air and work things out with him, but she had to admit she had an ulterior motive for calling. She wanted to know if they found the murder weapon in the dumpster. She realized she should probably come clean about the missing knife, she didn’t want it to reflect badly on her if Jack found out she had withheld that little tidbit of information. She took a deep breath, then pressed the call button.

"Perillo." She heard Jack's voice bark his customary greeting.

"Hi Jack…it's Lexy," She said tentatively, not sure what, exactly, to expect.

"Oh, Lexy. I was hoping you would call." Lexy's heart did a flip-flop upon hearing the tenderness in his voice when he said her name.

"Look, I want to apologize. I guess I've been neglecting you. I didn’t mean to...it's just that I've been so busy on this other case I am on. I tend to get wrapped up in my work." Jack sounded nervous which made Lexy’s heart melt, washing away the past two weeks of anger and hurt feelings. She realized how silly she had been to think he had lost interest in her. He just got busy with work. How insecure could she be?

"Well, I was feeling a bit neglected,” she laughed, “I didn't know if you were trying to give me the brush off."

"No, its nothing like that. You know how I feel about you." She did? Come to think of it, Jack had never said how he felt about her, but he did act like he cared. And he sure sounded like it on the phone right now. Lexy decided to let go of her insecurities and accept that things were good with them.

Having that out of the way, she turned to more pressing issues. "Were you looking for something in the dumpster, today?" She asked, trying to slip the words in as if they were just conversational.

"Were you?"

"I asked first."

Jack's deep laugh warmed her from the other side of the phone. "Okay, I give. We were looking for the murder weapon - it still hasn't shown up. Now it's your turn, what we you looking for?"

Lexy crossed her fingers. "I was looking for some of our supplies which seem to have disappeared from the house." She hoped her voice didn't reveal the little white lie, but she didn't want Jack to know she was looking for the murder weapon because she knew he would be mad at her for “meddling”.

"Oh really? Like one of your knives maybe?"

Damn, he already knows the murder weapon was my knife.

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