LifeoftheParty

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Author: Trudy Doyle
Ibayah, MD, DO .
    She was a strikingly lovely woman with deep-green eyes and a
luscious full mouth, and Doug always wondered why she chose to keep herself
hidden in the basement laboratory of a police station, dealing with bodies and
blood smears. She was at her computer, working on one report or another, the
light from her desk lamp illuminating her coffee-colored skin, the lab coat
draped over her chair allowing him to appreciate the generous curves of her
rigorously toned body. When she saw him approach, she looked up and winked,
Doug smiling with long-overcome regret, remembering a time when he was just a
bit in love with her.
    She leaned back in her chair. “Well, well, look who it is.
Hey, party boy.”
    Doug sank his hands into his pockets. How could he ask her
this? He could hardly think it, let alone say it, but he knew he had to. And
somehow he knew she’d understand. “Listen, Doc, I need a favor.”
    “As if I’m not busy enough.” Then she laughed, shaking her
head. “Oh all right, where’s the body?”
    “No body. This time it’s personal.” He shrugged,
unaccustomedly abashed. “Look, I don’t know how to put this, but I haven’t
been, well… Okay, let me just say my choice of female company lately hasn’t
been—”
    “The kind you’d bring home to Mama? Hmm. I see perfectly, Dougie.
And let me guess.” She stuck a slender finger to her chin. “There’s this girl
you just met, and you’d like to—”
    “In ways even you can’t even imagine.” He pressed his
knuckles to her desk. “So, can you give me some tests on the QT?”
    “Oh Dougie,” she said, sliding up her sleeves as she rose
from the desk, “I’ll even do it myself.” She crossed to a cabinet, pulling out
blood collection tubes, needles and a rubber tourniquet. “Have a seat,
Lieutenant. When I’m done with you, there won’t be a fluid of yours unexamined
or a disease left to rule out.” As she jabbed the needle in, he winced. “Oh
yeah, I’m going to enjoy the hell out of this.”
    * * * * *
    HOLLY HOUSE INN—RIVERBORO
    THURSDAY 31 OCTOBER
    6:18 A.M.
     
    Gina stumbled toward the door, wrapping her robe around her.
Logic assured her if the killers were coming they’d hardly knock. Still, she
had mace in her pocket and a steak knife in her hand she’d grabbed from the
tiny kitchen.
    “Who is it?” she asked, her heart pounding.
    “It’s me,” Doug answered. “Open up.”
    Relief washed over her, but so did hesitancy. Obviously, he
still wanted her, but could he possibly still care? The very thought of it left
her breathless. And perplexed about what to do next. She laid her cheek against
the door, her hand on the knob. “So you don’t hate me after all?”
    She heard him sigh heavily. “Just open up.”

Chapter Three
     
    HOLLY HOUSE INN—RIVERBORO
    THURSDAY 31 OCTOBER
    6:22 A.M.
     
    When Gina opened the door, her heart leapt as it always did
when she saw him. But Doug wasn’t looking at her. He was looking at the knife
in her hand. He grabbed her wrist.
    “If I were coming for you, doll,” he said, the blade
dangling between them, “do you really think this would stop me?”
    He was inches from her, her robe half-opened, exposing the
marks of the day before. So this is the way he’s playing it , she
thought. She dropped the knife, glaring at him. “Are you coming for me, Doug?”
    The hand at her wrist tightened. He pulled her to him, his
body taut with tension. “What do you want from me?”
    Gina wrenched herself loose, clasping the front of her robe.
“I thought I wanted your help. Now I’m not so sure.”
    His gaze, deep blue in the thin light, wavered. “Yeah you
are or you wouldn’t have opened the door. So start talking, doll. I’m all
ears.”
    She always marveled how he could shift from hot to cold with
such breathtaking efficiency, but this time it only irritated her. “Why sure.
The hell with preliminaries. Let’s get right down to cases.”
    His mouth crooked. “You
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