Taken By the Beast (The Conduit Series book 1)
“I would have liked to give myself a huge pat on the back for proving myself to be a competent and effective manager (if that was even what I was anymore), but the truth was, for all the upper crust snootiness New Haven had garnered in the last decade, work was still few and far between—which meant the lowly middle class couldn’t turn away employment opportunities. Even if those opportunities happened to be at a murder scene.
I couldn’t, of course, actually do any of the refurbishments until the police tape officially came down. And since that wasn’t happening for a day or two, I had plenty of time to load up on supplies. Unfortunately, the only décor store I could find that didn’t have the word ‘Barn’ in the title was a good fifty miles away, but I wasn’t about to let that stop me.
It was that want for supplies—or, more precisely, the hunt for the perfect replacement tables—which had me on the road that night.
I should have gone earlier, but Lulu had woken up short of breath and, as t...he designated freeloading best friend, rushing her to the emergency room fell under my jurisdiction.MoreLess
I couldn’t, of course, actually do any of the refurbishments until the police tape officially came down. And since that wasn’t happening for a day or two, I had plenty of time to load up on supplies. Unfortunately, the only décor store I could find that didn’t have the word ‘Barn’ in the title was a good fifty miles away, but I wasn’t about to let that stop me.
It was that want for supplies—or, more precisely, the hunt for the perfect replacement tables—which had me on the road that night.
I should have gone earlier, but Lulu had woken up short of breath and, as t...he designated freeloading best friend, rushing her to the emergency room fell under my jurisdiction.MoreLess
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