His Love Was My Poison novel · Chapter 39 of 48
Chapter 39: Thursday
The engineer filled in another crossword square.
"White one, behind the loading dock," she said. "Flat tire. Why?"
"No reason."
"If you need a dolly, we have four inside."
"I'm just curious. Thanks."
He pulled his jacket on and walked out through the front, whistling nothing.
The engineer did not look up until the glass door clicked.
Then she put down her pen and climbed the iron staircase one slow step at a time.
She stopped in the doorway of my dark office.
Her face was gray under the exit sign.
"I wanted it to be somebody I didn't like," she said.
"I know."
"I gave him my good stapler once."
I called the retired agent from the office floor, because getting up was a project.
She answered on the first ring, and I heard a chicken in the background.
"Tomorrow," I said.
"Then I'll bring two officers, and they'll be the right two."
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