Her Boyfriendâs Bones by Jeanne Matthews
Author:Jeanne Matthews
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Published: 2013-04-03T16:00:00+00:00
Chapter Eighteen
Nobody had a good word to say about Zenia. Egan had praised Marilitaâs allure and Nasosâ charm and Phaedonâs heroism, but said nothing complimentary about Zenia even when she was sitting in the same room with him. Behind her back, he called her malicious. Brakus spread the rumor that she cast the evil eye and Mentor claimed that she poisoned cats, but Stavrosâ putdowns were the most poetic and the most damning. Toweringly flawed, a braggart, a snob who wouldnât condescend to lend a helping hand, a prig with a stone where a heart should be. His criticisms were tempered only by a backhanded retort that she didnât lie. In Dinahâs book, not lying was a rare virtue. And if âthou shalt not kidnapâ and âthou shalt not murderâ were also graven on her stone heart, so much the better.
It wasnât yet five oâclock in the afternoon on what was turning out to be the longest, most grueling day of her life, but she had to keep moving or go mad. She grubbed through her purse with mounting agitation. Where had she put her car keys?
âArenât you hungry?â K.D. waltzed into her bedroom without knocking. âIâm starving. Do you think the taverna has opened yet?â
Dinah swore under her breath. K.D. was an albatross. It was too dangerous to leave her behind in the house and too trying to take her along. If only she could be stashed in an airport locker like a piece of baggage and reclaimed when it was convenient.
âThereâs cheese and bread and fruit and yogurt here.â
âAlcina and I ate most of the cheese and bread for lunch. We have to eat something. We donât want to show up on Zeniaâs doorstep and faint from hunger.â
âDonât worry about it. You wonât be going with me.â
âBut Alcina went to the farmhouse to spend the night with Yannis. Youâre not going to leave me here by myself, are you?â
Dinah pondered her options. She could drop her off at the taverna for the duration of the evening, ask Mentor if he would babysit, or duct tape her mouth closed and take her along. She said, âLetâs see if we can scrounge up something here.â
Downstairs, she opened the refrigerator and shifted various cartons around. She hadnât eaten all day, but she didnât think she could choke down a bite. Her throat felt tight and the ticking of the clock weighed on her. It would be dark in another three hours and the thought of Thor in the wrong hands roiled her stomach.
She could scramble some eggs and somewhere in the cupboard was a package of Greek doughnut holes drizzled with honey, which Thor had bought to satisfy her sweet tooth. Absent-mindedly, she buttered a sauté pan and started cracking eggs in a bowl.
K.D. found a chunk of cheese and grated it into the eggs, and sat down at the table with a bowl of grapes. âItâs strange the house doesnât have a real dining room. Do you think Marilita cooked in here?â
Dinah looked up from her egg-beating.
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