Without a Clue by Trish Jensen

Author:Trish Jensen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2005-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

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MEG PRACTICALLY FLEW through the passageway back to Matt, feeling flushed with success. But when she arrived at the sitting area behind the library, he was nowhere in what little sight there was.

Disappointment brought her down. But that morphed quickly into worry. Where could he have gone? Was he all right? He was new to these back alleys, and could easily have wandered off and gotten lost. After all, he didn’t have detailed floor plans to follow. And following detailed plans seemed to be the only thing he was any good at.

Well, he played a pretty mean ghost, she decided. And a somewhat believable dead guy. And he kissed all right, too. More than all right.

Meg shivered as she recalled the feel of his warm hands through the flimsy silk of her negligee. At the time she’d been a little too self-conscious, kissing a stranger in slinky attire in front of even more strangers.

But in hindsight, she was kind of sorry that she hadn’t savored the moment more. And now that he was a corpse, they wouldn’t be reenacting any scenes like that one again.

Damn.

She opened the drawer on the side table and pulled out one of several flashlights she’d stashed there days ago. Flicking it on, she looked left, then right, trying to decide where to start her search for the idiot. Since she hadn’t passed him coming in, she turned in the opposite direction, heading toward the back of the house and the stairs that led up to the floors above.

Swinging her flashlight back and forth, she kept whispering, “Matt? Matt? Where’d you go?” all the while kicking herself for not telling him to stay put. It didn’t bode well that she couldn’t even keep track of her corpse.

Suddenly ahead of her she saw a disembodied flicker of light, seemingly bouncing down the steps ahead. “Matt?” she whispered again.

“Coming,” she heard, and felt relief all out of proportion to the situation.

A few interminable seconds later his outline and then his face came into view. She’d be ready to ream him a new one if it weren’t for the fact that he had a triumphant, boyish, I-just-caught-the-frog look on his face.

His smile was infectious. So when she said, “Where have you been?” it didn’t hold an ounce of heat.

“Just doing my job, ma’am.”

“Excuse me?”

“My spirit was restless. It felt the need to roam the house and give the guests a little piece of my mind.”

Meg’s jaw dropped, but then she chuckled. “You’ve been spooking the guests?”

“Indeed.”

“If I’m not mistaken, Mr. Rossi, you just engaged in a little bit of spontaneous fun.”

“Hey! I know how to have fun.”

Meg decided not to point out that from what she’d heard, his idea of having fun was planning it step-by-step, way in advance. “Sure you do,” she said, nodding as sincerely as she could.

Matt tapped her chin. “That was a fine piece of acting back there in the library, Ms. Hatter. You were an inspiration.”

Meg felt a burst of pleasure. “Maybe there’s hope for you, yet.

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