Sunny Mates and Murders by Anne R. Tan

Author:Anne R. Tan [Tan, Anne R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Anne R. Tan

11

A White Knight

Monday morning Raina and Po Po went their separate ways. Technically her grandma stayed at the apartment to make phone calls for the memorial service. If the Kwan family was to hold the service within three days of the death as tradition dictated, there was plenty of work for her grandma to do. Although, it was probably unrealistic for Jerry’s body to be released in time to meet the deadline.

Raina spent the morning in the office of the Chinese Opera Company doing paperwork. When her grandma had proposed working for her friend this summer, Raina had assumed she would be a stagehand or an assistant on the set.

Instead, she spent most of her time in a one-room office next to the Chinese Cultural Centre with the office manager. Between the two of them, they did everything from entering the time for payroll to updating the company’s website. Not exciting, but with another dead body, it was the perfect mindless summer job. If nothing else, she could add marketing to her resume.

When Raina clocked out at one, she texted Po Po to see if she wanted to have a late lunch. Her grandma replied an affirmative, and Raina swung by the apartment with the rental car.

“What are you in the mood for?” Po Po asked.

“How about sandwiches?” Raina asked, pulling away from the curb.

“From the cafe next to the cell phone store? Is this why you drove instead of walked to work today?” Po Po’s voice was exasperated. “Rainy, you’re spending your entire inheritance replacing phones. It’s your third one this year.”

“It’s not my fault dead cell phones and dead bodies go hand-in-hand. I’m just lucky it’s not cars. I definitely can’t afford to replace those.”

After lunch, Raina and her grandma spent the next hour at the cell phone store, going through all the options. She settled on a pay-as-you-go phone, using an app to forward her voicemail messages from her USA phone number to this temporary phone.

She would pay for two cell phone services, but she didn’t want to put her USA cell phone number on hold in case Moody Investigations called her for an interview. It was a temporary solution, but hopefully she would return to the States by the end of the month.

When she opened her purse to hand over the pieces of her cell phone for recycling, her thoughts drifted to Jerry’s cell phone. Sonny hadn’t mentioned it since the night of the murder. She assumed he still had it. How could she get her hands on Jerry’s phone?

Raina wrapped up the cell phone purchase, and they went outside.

“I wonder who this ‘Mis’ person is that Jerry exchanged explicit text messages with.” Raina wondered out loud.

“It’s probably his mistress. Men like Jerry always have a mistress. You need to be prepared if you marry Sonny.”

“There’s nothing between Sonny and me other than mutual…benefits.”

“Just don’t turn it into friends with benefits. You can’t handle casual.”

Raina groaned. Why did every conversation with her grandmother circle back to her love life? “Not that kind of benefits.

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