Stage Fright by Dakota Cassidy

Author:Dakota Cassidy
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter

Eleven

Fab and I sat at my dining room table, glasses of wine in hand as we swirled pasta on our forks from Mama Fab.

When Fab told her about our day, she’d instantly begun cooking. It was how she showed her concern and her love, and no one appreciated not having to cook more than me.

I cooked for Cal and myself all the time because I didn’t want him to grow up on frozen foods and preservatives, but it wasn’t where my creativity flowed. Now that he was gone it was easier to open a can of soup or grab a takeout salad and a burger.

“Mmmm. Tell your mother she’s the best and if I had a husband, I’d leave him for her.” No one made Bolognese like Mama.

Fab snorted mid-gulp of wine. “I’ll pass it along. How’s your war wound?”

I let my fingers lightly glide over the scratch on my face from when I’d hit the ground. “It’s fine. Some antibiotic cream and one of my special poultices and all will be well. I’ve been through much worse.”

She tipped her glass at me. “I’ll drink to that.”

As I ate, I reflected on the surprised expression Cary made when Officer Baxter told us the thief had stolen spoons, but I kept my mouth shut for the time being.

It was time for me to make an anonymous phone call to the police. Now they knew about the spoons. I couldn’t put it off any longer. I hoped Ferris would agree. Someone else was going to get hurt if I didn’t speak up.

For the moment, I decided to keep this choice to myself. I’d tell Ferris later, but right now, I didn’t want Fab to know anything that might riled her up about someone else taking credit for my sleuthing.

Plus, I needed to get a burner phone to make the call so it couldn’t be traced back to me.

Lost in thought, I caught my friend eyeing me with a serious Fab gaze. “So…”

“So?” I knew what she was going to ask next, but I liked making her do it.

She rolled her eyes at me and clucked her tongue. “Soooo, did Cary ask you out after he saved you from that slug Vaughn?”

I set my fork down and wiped my mouth. “He didn’t save me. I saved me. He just reinforced what I’d already done and helped me clean up the crime scene. As to Cary asking me out? Sort of. We didn’t pin it down to a specific day, just the mention of a meal sometime.”

Fab tapped the rim of her wine tumbler. “Then he was just playing it cool, because let me tell you, sister, he was all kinds of curious about where you were today.”

I fought a stupid grin and the warming of my insides. “That’s nice.”

“Nice?” she sputtered with a roll of her neck. “Excuse me, miss, but aren’t we Casual Cathy? He’s the best-looking man in this town aside from Jorge, and you’re behaving as though men like that can be plucked off trees.

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