Curiosity Thrilled The Cat (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
I put a hand around the bag as a warning for him to stay very still and very quiet. Walking around on a Saturday night with one’s cat in one’s bag didn’t exactly make one look like a criminal, but it didn’t exactly make one look all that stable, either. I put on what I hoped was an innocent-looking smile. “Hello, Detective Gordon,” I said, walking over to the side of his car. “Is there anything I can help you with?” he asked. “Thank you, no,” I said. “I was out for a walk and stopped in to see Oren, but he isn’t home.” The brownies. I was still holding the cloth grocery bag with the brownies inside. “I wanted to drop some brownies off to Oren as a thank-you for fixing a leak at the library yesterday.” There—a perfectly good explanation for why I was standing in Oren’s yard. I was in the clear after all. “Get in,” Detective Gordon said. Or not. “Excuse me?” I said. He leaned over a little farther and opened the passenger’s door. “I’ll drive you home.
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