Glossy Lips by Barbara Silkstone

Author:Barbara Silkstone [Silkstone, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-24T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Lizzy slipped her arm around Dave’s waist and pulled him towards her.

“Where are your birds?” He looked up into the rafters and then at WonderDog as if he held the answer.

“Let me get you a beer,” Lizzy said. “Sit down and I’ll tell you all about it.” She shoved him playfully onto the sofa. “Just promise me you’ll control your temper.”

I tried to disappear into the woodwork. Lizzy’s forced happy-go-lucky tone blared a warning as clearly as one of those forklifts at a warehouse. She knew Dave was not going to take our recent adventures lightly.

She handed him a beer and then began to recount the significant events in chronological order, which unfortunately began with her getting arrested for stealing her own car.

“Kelly did what?” Dave leapt from his seat, slamming the beer bottle on the table, ready to rumble. The expression on his face said, Oh goody—a slugfest. It was a stretch to imagine Sterling Kelly in his expensive suit rolling in the sand with Dave Bronson. But the idea sure turned on a light in the fish man’s eyes.

Lizzy eased him back down. “There’s more, and it gets worse. If you want to hear the rest, you have to chill. Okay?” Once he nodded, she escorted him to the bedroom and showed him the remains of the lip-glossed obscenities. I followed at a distance. If his head exploded I wanted to be out of eyeball and earlobe range.

Dave tilted his head to the right and then the left. “Does this say WOMDAMPY? What kind of crazy stuff…? And that creep broke into your home! This is the last time he’ll threaten or scare you or any woman. There’s a score to be settled here!” He clenched his fists. Lizzy gripped his hands. “Please, Dave, calm down. There’s more and now I’m afraid to tell you.”

He closed his eyes and sucked in a deep breath. A few seconds later he exhaled. “I’m good. What else?”

She stared into his eyes and then said, “This sad story will be in the St. Pete Times tomorrow. It’s better that you hear it from me. Newton Nott is dead.”

“Peanut? Car accident or something? How is that story about you?”

She sighed. “He was murdered and stuffed in the trunk of my car. I guess it could be called a car accident. It was an accident that I found him in my trunk.”

You could have fried a flounder on Dave’s forehead as he turned bright red, and responded in an illogical manner. He skipped the body in the trunk implications and how it might have affected Lizzy emotionally. “You get that car back, but I don’t want you to drive it. You demand that jerk lawyer give you the title and registration. We’ll sell it and get you something less flashy.”

Lizzy crossed her arms with a set to her jaw I hadn’t seen. “Olive’s going to get the impression you tell me what to do.” She tapped her foot. “We both know that’s not true.

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