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“What in the world …” Cilla sat forward, resting
her hands on the dashboard, as Melba navigated the corner onto their street, preparing
to pull into the driveway of their duplex.
“What? Who’s—is that Heinrich?” Melba tapped the
brake, but Heinrich and the young man he stomped after, up the driveway, stepped
onto the sidewalk before she pulled in. Not that she would ever willingly hit Heinrich,
or even tap him with the bumper, but she thought some honest fear might be good
for the old curmudgeon. She swore he had been impossible to live with ever since
Cilla turned him down in eleventh grade and went to the prom with Eddie McGillicutty.
“Is that David?”
Melba didn’t turn her head to look. She pulled
into her usual parking spot in front of the garage, put the car into park, and turned
off the ignition first. By the time she got the door open, Cilla was sliding out
of the passenger seat. David walked down the driveway to meet them, alone. Heinrich
wasn’t visible, out in front of the house, but Melba thought she heard his stomping,
slapping footsteps and his grumbling voice as he headed back to his house three
driveways down the street.
“Gee, I come over here enough times, you’d think
the neighborhood watchdog would recognize me by now,” David greeted them, and grinned.
“He’s just being a good neighbor,” Cilla said.
“You were walking around the house, weren’t you? Checking the doors and windows,
like you always do?”
“Well, yeah. Gotta look out for you, y’know?”
He shrugged. “I’d feel a lot better about you both if you’d let me install that
home security system my company designed. Especially with all the weird stuff that’s
been going on in town lately. Who’d ever have thought sleepy little Cadburn would
have murders?”
“We appreciate your concern, but we’re fine.”
She patted his hand. “Now, I’ll just bet you’re here to follow up on that message
you left before. Not to worry. We got our investigator friend working on the problem.
She says we’re well protected against Charlotte’s schemes, thanks to all the preparation
we’ve been doing for our business.”
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