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certainly no body. I wasted good manpower checking out that bogus call.”
    “No blood?” Eve sounded incredulous. She’d told him that it had been all over the tile floor.
    But Mac knew a fast clean up job would have been easy if the cops hadn’t been looking too hard. If they’d already gotten it in their minds that it was a prank call then they wouldn’t have brought in anyone to check forensics. By now any blood evidence would be wiped clean. Unless of course they decided to go back and check for traces with luminol.
    “That’s right. The only thing we discovered is that Richard Underwood’s car has been stolen. Maybe you can write a story about that.” His voice held an edge of sarcasm.
    “Stolen?” Eve asked, disbelievingly. “And what about Allen Martin? Anyone see fit to check up on him?”
    The sheriff sighed loudly and Mac knew he was reaching the end of his rope. “I did receive a call last night about a prowler roaming around the exclusive Ranch Rock subdivision. A couple houses down from the Underwood’s place. Maybe I should be asking where you were last night.”
    And that was Mac’s cue. Grabbing the second Styrofoam cup he’d poured, he casually strode into the office. “Hey, Rob.”
    Tearing his gaze away from Eve, the sheriff slightly faltered. “Uh, hey Mac. Haven’t seen you around in a while. Everything all right?”
    Mac nodded as he handed a second cup to Eve. For effect he winked at her and held back a grin as she blushed. “Everything’s fine,” he said to the sheriff. “I’m waiting on Eve to take me down to the feed store.”
    “Ah…oh.” His frown deepened.
    “She had some car trouble this morning so we decided to ride into town together.” The way he said ‘we’ made it obvious that something was going on with them. He wasn’t sure she’d out and out lie to the sheriff about last night, but Mac didn’t want her saying something that could come back to bite her in the ass later. He would rather divert the subject regarding her whereabouts last night than have her lie.
    Next to him Eve choked on her coffee but didn’t argue. She grabbed her purse from the floor and stood. “Sorry to have bothered you.”
    The sheriff stood, eyeing them suspiciously. “Eve, is there something you need to tell me?”
    She snorted softly as if that was the last thing she’d ever do then took another sip of her coffee. “Thanks for your time, Sheriff.”
    Putting his arm around her shoulders, Mac steered her out of the station.
    Once they stepped out into the bright sun, she elbowed him. “What was that? Now he thinks you stayed over at my place.”
    “So?”
    She gritted her teeth and tossed the cup of crappy coffee into the trashcan outside the building. “Now everyone is going to think we’re together.”
    And would that be such a bad thing? He followed suit with his cup. The stuff was swill. “It’s better than him questioning you about your whereabouts last night.”
    Immediately she switched gears as they strode across the parking lot toward his truck. “What was that bull about the DA’s car being stolen? I know what I saw last night. I certainly didn’t conjure up a dead body. Or someone chasing me. Or shooting at me. I guarantee the patrol cop only glanced at the pool house—if he even did that at all.”
    Mac didn’t respond as he slid into his seat. Eve might be a lot of things but she wasn’t crazy and she wasn’t a liar. If she said she’d seen Martin’s body, she’d seen it. With the less than stellar record of the Hudson Creek P.D., he didn’t blame her for not having faith in them.
    “I left one tiny detail out about last night,” Eve said as he steered out of the lot.
    His stomach dropped at her words. “What?”
    “I took Martin’s SIM card out of his phone before I escaped.”
    He swore under his breath. It was actually a pretty smart thing to do. “What are you going to do with it?”
    “I already copied the numbers this morning. I was