Chapter 45
What Now?He knew she'll be thrilled – thrilled! – to hear that the hunter's body had been discovered. Actually, he was a bit nervous himself. He didn't like loose ends either. But as before, he had trouble separating his concern about the dead body from his fear of her.
“Yeah, I already heard,” was how she started in when he called her.
“Kind of stupid, right?” she continued.
“No,” he responded, defensively. He wasn't going to let her just walk over him; he was going to fight back.
“Well,” she spat out, “what now?”
“I don't really care,” the man began, weakly, but he was trying to build a case. “He's dead, so what? Maybe they'll think he's the one who stole the damn truffles, and he was murdered because of it.”
This sounded crazy before he even finished saying it. Her lon
