Marie congratulated herself for converting “fabuloso” to “fabulous”…and even thinking of lowering her voice. Still, much as she liked to credit herself with everything, she did have to concede that that plastic surgeon who worked for the cops deserved some credit.
Karen… Marie’d given up everything, even her face, to protect her very best, friends-forever, fabuloso buddy. It was all Marie could do to stop herself from giggling with glee over the discovery that Karen’s status of missing hadn’t meant that Karen’s crazy husband Frank had gotten her killed. That crazy husband Frank who Marie had felt terrible about sleeping with, but it was the only way to worm the information she needed out of him so she could convince the cops of her suspicions about his business dealings. Heart-wrenchingly horrible when Karen walked in on them? You bet! But Marie knew enough by then to know that Karen’s leaving Frank was very much for the best.
Karen… It was just so damn good to see her! But she knew she had to keep that off her face and looked down, hurting her still-sore face…which was when she noticed her own sweater. How could she have been stupid enough to wear the friggin’ sweater Karen made her, even if she did practically live in it? But the cops’ plastic surgeon deserved even more credit, since apparently Karen hadn’t even recognized her with the sweater.
Thing was, Karen’s crazy husband’s status was also missing. Marie ached to tell Karen who she was but was afraid for Karen. After sobering up and realizing what he told Marie, what might Frank have to do to Karen if he thought she’d talked to Marie?
“Can we help you?”
It was the other, older woman in a bathrobe. Damn. Marie had heard of jobs with casual Fridays, but this was ridiculous. Still, her voice was stunningly gorgeous. However, now that Marie was coming off the high of having found Karen alive, she was wondering how both apparent employees of this storage space had gotten so badly beat up.
“Rough hood here, huh?”
Both Karen and the older woman looked confused by her question. No matter. It was showtime.
“Listen, ladies,” started Marie, carefully keeping her voice lower than usual and doing all possible to use words and phrases Karen wouldn’t recognize. “I’m Detective Marsha Smith.” She flipped open some phony ID. “Homicide. Here to ask you some questions about some alleged occurrences at this storage space.”
