“If you can get your hands on it—” Maria starts, but she freezes.
Roger whips his head to the door.
I look too.
Nothing.
I open my mouth, but Roger holds up a thick hand, and a moment later, Annika pops through the door to the front of the museum.
Maria must’ve caught the noise of her shoes squeaking before Roger and I did.
“My grandmother had another map, but it burned up in a fire at her morgue about thirty years back,” Roger says to me.
“We think it was the real original map of Shipwreck,” Maria adds.
Yep.
Morefucks.
Because now I don’t know if they’re serious or talking in code.
I do know one thing though—my gyro is getting cold.
Annika slides a look at them. “That’s it?” she says. “There was a fire in Sarcasm and all you’re going to say about it is that the original map of Shipwreck was lost in it? That’s the whole secret you wanted to talk to Sloane about?”
“What else is there to say?” Maria asks her.
That a Shipwreck shithead set it.
That’s what else there is to say.
Annika’s eyes narrow and her mouth goes flat. “What did you tell Sloane while I was in the bathroom?”
Yay, my gyro tastes like sawdust and my stomach feels like its walls are lined with broadswords and it’s having a sword fight without my approval.
“We were asking about if she’s had any more famous patients at the office, and she was refusing to tell us. Can you imagine?”
Annika looks at me.
“What?” I say around a mouthful of food. “You know I can’t tell you either.”
“Don’t make me tell Grady to only make licorice-flavored cookies for your wedding.”
Giselle pokes her head in the door. “Don’t threaten my client or your husband won’t be baking anything at all. Sloane, what time do you have to be back at work?”
I look at my watch, and my body goes into both relief mode andfuuuuuccckmode at the same time. “About four minutes ago.”
“Hurry up, buttercup.”
Yeah.
I see why Davis loves her.
I definitely do too.
“Next time you’re in Sarcasm, you stop by my house, and I’ll see if I have anything else in the basement,” Roger says to me.
I shove another bite in my mouth and nod.
