If Looks Could Kill
“As the cab sped down the block, however, I saw that it was deserted in front of the town house. I paid the driver, and before springing up the stoop, I paused to stare at Heidi’s apartment. A strip of yellow police tape was stretched across the iron gate.
I climbed the stoop and rang the doorbell. It was answered by Carlotta, Cat’s housekeeper from Guatemala, a woman of around fifty who wasn’t a hair over five feet tall. She kept the chain on the door until she saw who it was.
“The repo...rters aren’t here anymore, Carlotta?” I asked as she let me in.
“No more, Miss Bailey. They go already. Yesterday it was not berry nice.”
“Is Cat here? She asked me to drop by.”
“She know. She ask you go to her office. You know, the third floor?”
I’d been in the upper part of the house only a couple of times in the four years Cat had owned it.MoreLess
I climbed the stoop and rang the doorbell. It was answered by Carlotta, Cat’s housekeeper from Guatemala, a woman of around fifty who wasn’t a hair over five feet tall. She kept the chain on the door until she saw who it was.
“The repo...rters aren’t here anymore, Carlotta?” I asked as she let me in.
“No more, Miss Bailey. They go already. Yesterday it was not berry nice.”
“Is Cat here? She asked me to drop by.”
“She know. She ask you go to her office. You know, the third floor?”
I’d been in the upper part of the house only a couple of times in the four years Cat had owned it.MoreLess
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