Beneath Dark Waters (New Orleans #2) by Karen Rose EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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The Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 9:00 A.M.
MORNING, JOY,” VAL Sorensen singsonged.
Their office manager was at her desk in the lobby of Broussard Investigations, frowning at
her computer monitor. “Welcome back, Val,” she said without looking up. “How was your
assignment?”
“Boring. Some CEO said that someone was threatening his wife, but he was just worried that
she was getting some from the pool boy on the side and wanted a chaperone.”
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Joy glanced up. “Was she getting some from the pool boy?”
“Not my job to know,” Val said, then laughed. “But yeah, she totally was.” Waving the box
she held, she was rewarded when Joy’s normally stoic expression became rapturous. Val
gestured to the box like it was a game show prize. “See something you like?”
Joy’s lips twitched. “Depends. Does that box in your hands contain Marica’s cupcakes?”
Val smirked. Her pals MaryBeth and Jessica owned one of the best bakeries in the Quarter.
“They were Marica’s, but then I paid for them, so now they’re mine.” She put the box on Joy’s
desk, centering it carefully on the blotter, because a crookedly placed anything was annoying as
hell. “And now they’re yours. Happy birthday, Joy.”
Joy grinned. “You stood in that ridiculous line for me?”
“I did indeed.” She propped her hip on the corner of Joy’s desk. “I didn’t have to, because
MaryBeth already had these set aside for me and told me to just come to the front of the line to
pick them up. But the crowd looked unruly, so I decided it would be safer to wait.”
Besides, it was a beautiful fall morning and she’d wanted to breathe it in before getting stuck
behind her desk all day. She loved her job at Broussard Investigations—except for the
paperwork, and she had a ton of it waiting for her.
“Well, thank you,” Joy said. “Although you could have hip-checked anyone who gave you
any shit, Miss Roller Derby Queen.”
Val rolled her eyes. “I don’t hip-check random strangers. Plus, there were a few old ladies in
front of me who must have come from morning mass. They were clutching rosaries and didn’t
look scared to use them.”
“Such foolishness.” Joy lifted the box’s lid, sniffed deeply, then sighed. “Chocolate.”
“Of course. I’m not stupid.”
“No, you’re not.” Joy tilted her head in a speculative way that had Val sliding off the desk
and taking a wary step back.
“What?”
Joy smiled up at her. “Nothing.” She took two of the cupcakes from the box and handed
them to Val. “One for you and one for the child.”
Val frowned. “What child?”
The door to their boss’s office opened and Burke Broussard appeared. A big and brawny
retired Marine, Burke was somewhere in his midforties. A very handsome man, he turned heads
everywhere.
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