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“You’re not going undercover, for heaven’s sake,” Cullen stated.
Chi-Chi folded her arms and stared down at Luna. “Call him.” Luna’s phone was sitting on the table. Chi-Chi picked it up and handed it to her. “Now.”
Luna started wiggling her shoulders and hips as if she were about to step into a boxing ring. Cullen burst out laughing. “What are you doing? Some kind of woo-woo jig?”
Chi-Chi stifled a laugh. She knew Luna was getting her own chi energy aligned. Shaking off the cosmic dust, so to speak.
Luna made a face at him. “Never you mind.” She scrolled through her contact list and found Marshal Christopher Gaines. She pressed her finger on his name.
“Marshal Gaines.” He knew it was Luna, but he didn’t want to seem too excited to hear from her. Even though he was.
“Hey, Marshal. Luna-tic here.” She paused.
He chuckled. “Well, hello, Ms. Bodhi. And to what do I owe this pleasure? I trust all is well in your world.”
“Marshal Gaines. I am doing well, thank you. And you?”
“Well. Busy, but well. Trying to make the house habitable has been a challenge, but I’m fine. What’s on your mind?”
“Remember the table you saw in Cullen’s workshop? The one we were both vying for? The one that I thought was special?”
Gaines couldn’t help but smile. “I do indeed. Are you ready to give it up?”
“Oh no, sir. But I do have an interesting situation about which I could use some advice.”
“Shoot.” Gaines knew that wasn’t always a good expression, but he was in a playful mood. He was elated that Luna had called. No matter the reason.
As if reading his mind, Luna broke in with, “That’s not a very good word for a marshal to be using, is it?”
Gaines laughed out loud. “I was thinking the same thing.”How does she do that?
I knew that, Luna thought to herself, and smiled.
Chi-Chi gave her a long wink. She could feel the warm energy coming off Luna from her end of the conversation.
“OK. So. Cullen finally moved the table to get to the drawer. He had to use a crowbar. Anyway, we found an envelope with what appears to be the last will and testament of Mr. Randolph Millstone.”
“As in Millstone-everything?” Gaines was genuinely stunned.
“Seems that way,” Luna continued. “But we don’t want to notify the family.”
“Why not?” Gaines asked.
“Because if this document is legit, his family is going to have a cow. Several. A herd of cows.” Luna’s level of excitement was increasing.
“I’m going to be in your area, not this weekend but next, for our think tank. Mind if I stop by and take a look?” Gaines’s voice was even.
“That would be great. Which day and what time?” Luna replied, giving a thumbs-up.
Cullen offered, “Tell him we’ll take him out to dinner.”
“Oh, my brother offered to take you to dinner.”
“That should work out well. The session is over at four thirty. I can come by and take a look at the document and that table,” he joked. “I have dibs on it, too, if you remember.”
“I do remember. We’ll have to arm wrestle for it.”
“Before or after dinner?” Gaines was getting more comfortable flirting with Luna.
