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She tensed. “No. Aspen.”
This time his gaze flicked up to meet hers before he looked back to the paper. “Did you notice any pedestrians on your street, any vehicles you might have passed?”
“No.”
“Were you alone?”
The all-business tone of his voice finally got to her stretched nerves. “Could you drop the cold cop attitude? It’s kind of annoying.”
He scowled and snapped the notebook closed. “Fine. You look like you were on a date. Were you?”
“Why? What does that have to do with this?”
His shrug was decidedly un-cop-like. So was the brief flash of smile. “Nothing. I just want to know what the hell’s going on with you. Lori Love in a dress? The world’s gone mad.”
“Whatever.”
“And here’s the truly strange part…Molly hasn’t mentioned a thing about you dating anyone.”
“Hmm. Can we get back to the crime scene? When are the techs going to arrive?”
“The techs?” He sputtered, choking on laughter. “It’s just me and old Frank there, sorry. You mentioned boy problems the other day. Care to tell me about that?”
“Good God, are you going to do your job, or do you just want to gossip?”
“That’s not gossip. I’m trying to figure out why someone would want to drive a truck into your garage.”
She blinked. “A truck?”
“Yeah, but not your tow truck. The headlights have been smashed, but there seems to be no other damage.”
“The headlights?” she groaned.
Ben walked her over to the far side of the lot where the tow truck was parked. Sure enough, both headlights had been smashed, as well as the spotlight on the driver’s side door.
“All deliberate damage, obviously. Do you know who would want to do this to you?”
“No. I don’t suppose you have any idea how much that door will cost to replace, do you?”
“Lori, I’m serious. Have you broken it off with someone recently? Turned someone down?”
“Er…just Aaron.”
He wrote that down.
“Seriously, Ben, I don’t think he cares that much.”
“You never know.” He glanced up. “And Quinn? Are you still dating him?”
Lori choked on her tongue. Ben just waited patiently until her coughing stopped. “Huh?” she rasped.
Rubbing his eyes, he sighed. “Come on. Even if I weren’t a trained investigator, I would’ve figured that one out. Molly doesn’t know?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about!”
“Fine, I’ll call Quinn with any questions.”
Lori smacked him in the arm before it occurred to her that she could be arrested, then she smacked him again because she was pretty sure he wouldn’t press charges. “Don’t call him!”
