Whisper of Love (Whisper Lake 1)

“What the…?” She asked the empty hallway when she saw that both boy’s doors were open and neither of them were asleep in their beds.

Maybe they got up without me waking them, she considered.

Stranger things had happened.

Her heart was still pounding in her head when she heard music playing. The upbeat chords of “Brown Eyed Girl” were drifting up from downstairs.

“Ricky! KJ!” she called out as she hurried down the stairs.

“They’re at school,” Kade shouted from the direction of the laundry room.

Relief spread through her. She hadn’t single-handedly screwed up Ricky’s perfect attendance record. It was short-lived, however, when she rounded the corner and saw the autopsy that Kade was performing on her dryer. The machine was pulled out from the wall and the top of Kade’s head was peeking up from behind it. There were parts and tools laid out on the floor.

She took in the scene and panicked. “What are you doing?!”