by Lotta Smith
“Congratulations on your new life and do send my hug and kiss to your wonderful baby,” I added, and I meant it sincerely.
“Thank you.” She smiled a genuine, beautiful smile. Her brown eyes were full of joy and happiness. “Thank you for your kind words to the baby and to me.”
I wished her all the best and she wished me back the same thing. We kept on chattering until she got summoned back to the corpse and started actual dissecting. We promised to say hi to each other if we ever crossed paths again. As I saw her opening the cadaver’s abdomen and hesitantly taking out the liver, which was measured and weighed by the lab technician, I could assume why she hated her job.
That was the first and last time I ever talked to her.
Chapter 3
That’s it? That’s how I feel?
I was unexpectedly calm.
It was strange.
The shabby alley reeked of stale beer and urine.
I didn’t know how I dared to go there.
Maybe I was wasting my time…
I knocked on the door.
No answer.
Perhaps I was making a complete fool of myself…
Again.
Still, I had to come.
After some banging, the next door rattled open.
“She ain’t got no keys, push the door and just shuddafuckup,” spit the old woman—a junky, obviously.
I thanked her politely.
Shaking her head, she disappeared back to her cave.
For the first time in many, many years, I was peaceful.
Perhaps what I was feeling was…love…
About the author
Lotta Smith is the author of Kelly Kinki Mysteries. She loves everything comedy, from novels, TVs, to movies. She’s hard at work with her new books.
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