Boss, Your Wife's a Whole Detective novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Bait
On the Thursday before the vote, Ida's office had five people in it and one working chair.
Ida had the chair. Lorna Lonergan had the windowsill, in a black suit, with her knot of hair pinned so tight it looked painful.
Rowan stood at the filing cabinet with his hands behind his back.
That was where he put them when he had decided not to touch anyone.
A girl of twenty-two in a headset sat on the floor with a laptop.
"My niece," said Ida. "She runs the sound board for the ballroom at every Garvey House event, and she has never once been asked a question."
"Hi," said the niece.
"Hi," said Lorna, to my surprise, and ate one of Ida's peppermints without being offered.
I stood at the whiteboard with a marker in my hand and no cardigan on.
I had left it on the back of the chair at home.
It was the first time in months I had gone out with my arms bare and my hair loose, white streak showing.
Nobody had said a word about it. Rowan's eyes had gone to my temple and stayed there for a moment.
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