Undercover in Six Inch Stilettos

Undercover in Six Inch Stilettos by Carolyn LaRoche

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tell the police.”
    “Tell them what, Ang? That I found a purse under the dumpster and it has a stain on it?”
    “Well, yes. Come on, you don’t think you can solve this on your own?”
    “Why not? I have been listening to Jason talk shop for years. I have learned a thing or two. If I go to them now, I lose my job, and maybe my husband. You don’t think Jason is going to be understanding of my lying to him all these weeks, do you?”
    Angela’s tone was grim as she looked at her friend. “I think that if Jason loves you, he will get over it. I also think that we are talking about a little girl who may be in danger, if she isn’t already dead, and you have the one piece of evidence that might lead police to find her.”
    What Angela said made sense. A week had already passed since Jade’s disappearance. The chance of her being safe was slim. It was highly unlikely that she had simply left town now that her pocketbook sat in Cyndi’s hands. Jade deserved justice if something horrible had happened to her.
    “Someone needs to find Jade.”
    “That someone can’t be you.”
    She turned on her friend. “Why not? ”
    Angela reached out and touched Cyndi on the arm. “Because you don’t have the resources.”
    “But I have the connections.”
    “Connections? You mean an ancient cigarette-smoking dancer, a women’s underwear-wearing bartender, and a clueless bouncer?”
    “Don’t talk bad about my friends.”
    “Your friends, Cyn? I’m your friend. Those are some freaky people you work with one night a week because you have some strange, burning desire to be a stripper.”
    “Gee, Ang. Don’t hold back or anything.”
    “I’m sorry, I don’t mean to sound harsh. I just want to give you some perspective. You can’t solve this alone. Jade deserves a real investigation into her disappearance, don’t you think?”
    “Yeah, I suppose.” Jade did deserve justice, and Jason, or someone he knew, could do that for her. “All right, I will give the purse to Jason, but I am going to tell him we found it when we were walking to lunch.”
    “Well, that’s a start. I know you want to protect your secret, Cyndi, but turning it over to the police is the right decision. You have to tell him where you found it though. What if there’s something else we missed that could help them solve the case?”
    Cyndi sighed heavily. Now she had to find a way to explain why she and Angela were poking around in an alley behind a gentleman’s club. Yay.
    “I’ll take care of it.”
    “Okay. I’m proud of you. If this girl’s disappearance is related to that psycho who’s been calling into 9-1-1, then you don’t want to get mixed up in that anyway. What if you piss him off and he goes after you?”
    Cyndi shrugged. “How would he know?”
    “I don’t know, but I sure as hell don’t want to find out. Do you?”
    “No, I guess not.”
    “Do you want to grab a sandwich before we head home?”
    “I don’t think so. Now that I have this in my hand, I want to get rid of it as soon as possible.”
    “All right. I can understand that. I’ll hit a drive-thru on the way home.”
    Cyndi led the way out of the alley and back to Atlantic Avenue. Sugar Shakers was shuttered and locked down for the day, and her ankle was definitely done with moving around. The best thing she could do was head home. The drive would give her a little time to figure out how she could explain to Jason where she had found the purse.
    When she arrived home, Cyndi backed into the driveway, the tactically sound way Jason preferred. Another reason her Friday nights would never fly with her husband. In his mind, her job put her at risk. The part where she danced around in skimpy lingerie probably wouldn’t even faze him.
    In light of Jade’s disappearance, she wondered if her husband was right about some of his crazy requirements. As long as she was careful, everything would be fine. Cyndi enjoyed dancing for reasons she could not put into words.

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