Ghoul Interrupted: A Ghost Hunter Mystery by Victoria Laurie

Ghoul Interrupted: A Ghost Hunter Mystery by Victoria Laurie

Author:Victoria Laurie
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, General
ISBN: 9781101559277
Publisher: Signet
Published: 2011-12-27T05:00:00+00:00


Chapter 8

An hour later my patience was wearing thin. The deputy had left us in the squad car while he went inside the station and didn’t appear to be coming back out. “This blows,” Gilley said.

“Are your cuffs supertight?” I asked him, leaning forward to try to find a comfortable position, but why I bothered I couldn’t really say, because when your hands are restrained behind your back while you’re in a sitting position for longer than ten minutes, there is no comfortable position.

“They’re not as bad as yours,” Gil said, and I noticed he was looking down at my hands. “Your fingers are turning blue.”

I glanced out the window again. “The son of a bitch cut off my circulation.” I sat back up again and planted my feet on the floor, arching my back for a moment to angle my hands under me. I squirmed and wiggled and contorted myself until I managed to get my butt through the loop of my arms. “If a life of crime doesn’t work out for you, M. J., might I suggest Cirque du Soleil?”

I grunted, shimmying my wrists forward to just behind my knees, then had to sit there and pant for a second before craning my neck all the way to the side to mash my face against the back of the seat so I could get my boots through the loop.

With a sigh I sat back and held up my hands. “Ah-hhh,” I said. “That’s better.”

“Now what?” Gil asked.

I tried the door handle. It was locked and there was a cage separating the front seat from the back. I eyed the window. “With a few good kicks I could break us out of here.”

“Oh, please do!” Gil said with mock enthusiasm. “By all means make a bad situation worse by breaking out of the squad car!”

“We’re already in trouble,” I reasoned.

“Yes, but we’re not necessarily facing jail time. Once Heath shows up and vouches for us, I’m pretty sure they’ll let us go with only a fine for trespassing.”

I laid my head back on the seat and closed my eyes. I’d almost rather risk escaping police custody than face my boyfriend after this. “Do you think he’ll break up with me?”

“Who, Heath?”

“Yes.”

Gilley was quiet for a minute. “Maybe,” he said. “I mean, what you did was pretty bad for a girlfriend, and if I were a straight guy, I’d probably break up with you.”

“Gee, thanks.”

“On the bright side, maybe you and Steven could get back together?”

I shook my head. “That ship has sailed,” I told him. “He’s dating some new girl.”

“How do you know?”

“Teeko.”

“Ah,” Gil said. “Well, then maybe you should leave all the talking to me when Heath shows up.”

I smiled. “What would you say?”

“That it was my idea to come here,” he said simply.

I lifted my head and stared at him. “You’d do that for me?”

He seemed surprised that I’d even ask. “Well, duh, M. J. It is my job, isn’t it?”

“Your job?”

“Yeah. Don’t you remember what your mom told us? That it was my job to watch out for you?”

My eyes widened.



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