CHAPTER 8- Pandora -
When Clark had left to run their DNA results against police databases, Penny insisted that Matiu drive her back to her apartment for a late breakfast and a shower. Nothing could be achieved until the lab had been thoroughly decontaminated, and Beaker insisted on doing that—probably out of a misplaced sense of guilt, since he’d been the one who’d loaded the sample into the Breadmaker™. Well, Penny wasn’t about to look a gift horse in the mouth, not when she hadn’t had a change of clothes since being called out to the crime scene at the warehouse yesterday. Yesterday! She must smell totally rank with the filth of a day and a night of murder investigation on her. And now, with the stench of sulphur clinging to her hair and seeping into her pores, she could have crawled o
