Luckily, the doors parted as soon as I pressed the button, and I quickly jabbed first at the number three and then at theClose Doorbutton.
Leona clutched one hand to her chest and raised the other to get our attention. “I’ll ride with you!” she cried, a frightening sort of desperation in her violet eyes.
She was two steps away when the doors closed.
“Oh, thank God.” Wyatt shoved the bakery box at me. “Here. Take all the cheesecakes as a token of my gratitude.”
I removed one mini dessert from the box before pushing it back into his hands.
“Consider us even.” I took a bite of heavenly cherry deliciousness and let out a moan of pleasure, nearly sagging against the wall. Agnes and her daughter were baking magicians.
I was about to take a second bite when my eyes met Wyatt’s.
The heat in his gaze nearly stopped my heart.
I licked a bit of cheesecake filling from the corner of my mouth before realizing what I was doing. Wyatt’s eyes tracked themovement. My fingers dug into the soft dessert, and I had a sudden urge to lift those cheesecake-covered fingertips to his lips.
The elevator dinged, and the doors parted.
Theo was stationed right outside with her arms crossed over her chest. She fixed me with a cool stare and said, “It’s about time you showed up.”
Chapter
Fourteen
Theo wheeled halfway onto the elevator, which was just far enough to reach the bakery box held in Wyatt’s hands. She flipped it open and took a mini cheesecake, unfazed by the closing elevator doors, which bumped the wheels of her chair before opening again.
“Thanks,” she said to Wyatt as she set the dessert on her lap. Then she backed up and inclined her head toward the hall. “Come on.”
I followed her off the elevator and waved at Wyatt as the doors closed fully, with him still on board.
“Who’s the hot guy?” Theo asked as we made our way down the hall.
“Nobody.” The word came out mumbled since I’d just taken another bite of cheesecake. Which immediately took me back to that heated moment I’d shared with said nobody on the elevator. I took another bite, hoping the explosion of cherry flavor would distract me from those thoughts.
No such luck.
Theo stopped outside my door.
“Why were you waiting for me?” I asked, holding the remains of my cheesecake in one hand and digging through my purse for my keys with the other.
“Because we’ve got a murder to solve?”
“We?” What was it with everyone thinking this was a team sport?
I opened the apartment door and let Theo zip through ahead of me since she seemed determined to invite herself in.
“The whole building is talking about how Mrs. Nagy hired you to get her husband out of jail.”
“She didn’t hire me,” I said. “She asked for a favor, and I agreed, no compensation involved.”
“Well, nobody else is going to hire us if we don’t solve our first case successfully.”
“Ourcase?”
Theo glanced around the apartment as if looking for something. “Where’s the murder board?”
“Um…I don’t have one.”
