Sketch a Falling Star (34 page)
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Authors: Sharon Pape
Tags: #Fiction, #General, #Women Sleuths, #Mystery & Detective
She smiled back at him. “How could I ever break up the Three Musketeers?”
“The three who?” Zeke chuckled, clearly ready to leave the painful discussion behind.
Rory was well into an explanation of Dumas’s story when a sharp rap at the back door made them all jump. Hobo ran to the door barking ferociously as if ashamed that he hadn’t alerted them to the trespasser sooner. “That’s what comes of being fixated on the ice cream,” she scolded him with a laugh as she peeked outside.
“It’s Eloise,” she said, turning to Zeke who was in the process of vanishing. “You can stick around.”
“That’s okay,” he said as he faded away, “I’ll let you two ladies chat.”
“Coward,” she called after him, wishing she could also disappear. When she opened the door, Eloise stepped inside without so much as a “hello.” She was wearing blue pajama bottoms, a festive, red-ruffled blouse and her serious face. Oh no, Rory groaned to herself, adrenaline already pumping. What now?
Eloise scratched absently at Hobo’s head as she looked around the kitchen, her gaze sweeping over the ice cream container as if it held no particular interest. Serious mode squared. “Where’s your sketch pad?” she demanded, focusing on Rory again.
“Upstairs, why?” After her interview with Dorothy, her standoff with Paula and her discussion with Zeke, the last thing she needed was a psychic with a pressing agenda.
“Well, go get it,” Eloise said impatiently shooing her out of the room. “We don’t have all day, you know. Someone’s been murdered.”
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