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“Now”

“What do you say we get out of here?”

“Are you asking the detective or the lady?” Flirting with danger had always been her MO She loved the excite a case, but this? Well, this skated along the lines of seducing trouble, and she wasn’t just trying to draw it out Her attitude was cocking its proverbial hip, crooking its finger back and forth, and striking a pose Coet it!

A hard look of rawthose long eyelashes at the biker or the man you think can help you solve this case?”

“I never said I thought you could help me”

“Then why have you spent the last two hours with h that she could sreen aftershave

“So the lady has your interest”

“The detective doesn’t want it”

“Why would you say that?”

“Because I rolled into this town on a day like no other Your citizens are grieving a loss of sizeable in to fathoust lingered in his expression “More concerned with takingout what I know that ht help you solve your case” He stood, retrieved his wallet, and thren a twenty-dollar bill “Go home, Detective Keen Go home and think about that”

She gasped in horror as she looked up at the cold, e back at her A er appeared interested in her Instead, he seely wanted to belittle her Before she could supply a rebuttal, he stormed out of the diner

What on earth had she done? Tre, she rose and started for the door She’d almost reached the exit when she noticed a poor, hoht, he was dressed in a coal-black raincoat The large fellow seemed to slump into his weathered outerwear in an attempt to hide from her, or maybe even the entire world

She couldn’t bla with the new man in town, she wanted to find a hole and bury herself She’d like to dig deep enough so she could lay low until the town’s stranger disappeared once and for all

“He’s still here” Randon lightly touched the drapes Peering around the dated beigetreatments, he secured the phone between his ear and shoulder “I’m pretty sure I just saw him at the local diner”

“Did anyone else see him?”