by Diana Orgain | Sep 23, 2021 | Gold Strike Mysteries, Sneak Peek, Uncategorized
Did you miss chapter one? From Runaway Murder Chapter Two “Morning, Greg,” I muttered as I made my way up the metal steps, my footsteps clanking as I went. He didn’t move at first, asserting his dominance by making me brush past him, I’m sure. But one quick glare from me had him hopping onto the platform to give us space. “Good morning, Jessica, and what a lovely morning it is, too.” “What’s got into you this morning?” I asked. He was always either far too happy or far too irritable, never in between, although part of me was convinced he acted the tempera‐ mental boss for my benefit. “Can a man not be happy at work, Jess?” he asked. I just shook my head and walked past into the waiting area as Vanessa pulled herself up. Greg Kendrick was one of the less pleasant parts of my job. He was the train’s chief conductor and general manager—and my ex-lover. Our affair had been brief, and long before I took the job on the train, but there was no escaping the fact that it had happened. I hadn’t been in the best of places after my divorce,—and even though my two kids and my stepson had long ago flown the nest, I’d still felt guilty divorcing their father. Greg had been a nice distraction from all that, but boy, had it come back to haunt me when I started working on this train. Whenever he disagreed with me or refused to entertain my ideas— which was often enough—I wondered whether he was punishing me for ending things when I...
