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She chokes out a giggling snort. “You slept with the guy you think is a murderer?”
“I never confirmed we slept together.”
“No, but Detective Fletcher did.”
“How could he possibly know? He wasn’t there!”
“So there was somewhere to be?” For the second time today, my second-in-charge drops her perky ass on my desk and digs for gossip. “For there to be somewhere he wasn’t, there has to be a somewhere that something happened, right? Fletcher happened across you and Malone, and now you’re losing your mind because you slept with a homicide detective who is kinda cloaked in this badass persona who maybe or maybe not kills people in his spare time?”
“So you’re saying there’s a chance Malone kills people?”
“No.” She sniggers. “He’s a protector of the dead, kinda like me and you. He doesn’tmakepeople dead.”
Groaning, I slump back in my chair and press my thumbs to my eyes. “Talk to me about the body he has somewhere in this building.”
“The homicide from last night?”
“No, the other one.” I drop my hands and wait for the stars to clear from my vision. “The mystery one. The one no one has solved. And since we’re on the topic, why haven’t you solved it?”
“Oh, I’ll show you.” She swings away from my desk and waits for me to follow. “Kernicke snagged that case, since Chant was leaving and he was next in seniority.”
“Okay, so if he’s next in seniority, why the hell is your desk outside my office? Why are you my second-in-charge?”
She flashes a wicked grin and holds the door wide for me to pass through. “Because I dragged my desk across the ninth floor all by myself this morning, before anyone else on our shift got in, then I camped out in the lobby and made damn sure I’d be the first face you saw. Essentially?” She leads me back through a labyrinth of halls, then into an elevator where she presses level two. “I madesureI’d be your second. If I decided I didn’t like you, I’d have pushed my desk back this afternoon and gone on with my life.”
“But youdolike me?”
“Hehehehehe.” Giggling, she stares hard at the silver steel walls. “I liked you from the moment I met you. But I decided Ilovedyou when Detective Malone announced you and he have been naked together.”
Not nearly as amused as she is, I glare until she feels the pressure of my rage inside these three-square-feet of steel slingshotting us down a half a dozen flights. Her giggle cuts off on a gurgle, but then the elevator stops, and the ding of our arrival saves her from my fury.
“I intend to have fun with this, Doctor Mayet.” Bouncing out of the car, she looks back at me and shows off cheeks too pink, too pleased for her own safety. “Is it time for me to call you Minka yet? Or Minnie.” Her smile goes wider. “Minnie is cute.”
I growl. “Nevercall me Minnie.”
