What They Saw by M.M. Chouinard

Author:M.M. Chouinard [Chouinard, M.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781803147185
Published: 2022-11-15T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY

Jo tossed and turned, alternating between being too hot and too cold, hovering in a state halfway between full wakefulness and full sleep, constantly waiting for her phone to shriek her awake.

Half an hour before her scheduled alarm, she woke fully and snatched up her phone.

No texts. No calls. No murder—everything was okay.

She snuggled into Matt, allowing his body heat to thaw her face. His chest rose and fell in time with his breathing, and her own breath began to follow his, pulling her back into the peaceful solitude of sleep.

But the corner of her brain that had been obsessing all night whispered to her. Something isn’t right, it told her. Something doesn’t fit.

She pushed it aside and breathed in Matt’s woodsy, musky smell. This was the beauty of living together, she told herself. How the comforting feel and smell of a person became as much a part of home as the walls and roof around you—if you let it.

The cross contamination. It doesn’t make any sense.

Her shoulders tensed but she burrowed deeper into Matt’s chest, using him as an anodyne for the confusion and ugliness she wasn’t ready to face.

Then her phone alarm sounded. A tinkling, child-like song that would get louder and more insistent if she didn’t respond to its first gentle tones—she moaned, rolled over, and turned it off.

“Come back,” Matt croaked, voice thick with sleep.

She turned to do just that, but her phone pealed again—this time with the shrill blare of a call.

She scrambled to hit the call button.

“Detective Fournier?” Lacey Bernard’s voice crackled over the line.

Jo bolted up. “What’s wrong? Did you get another text?”

“Yes, about another murder. Deena Scott—she was Ossokov’s defense attorney.”

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