Part 5
Pacing around in her small condo, Ruby was thinking the worst.
Roy was supposed to come for dinner with a new bottle of wine he was excited to try. He was two hours late. He hadn't called, and she couldn't reach him. She stopped and stared out the window.
That's when the phone rang. Ruby checked the screen; it wasn't Roy. She wasn't interested in talking with anyone else, but she pulled the detective's card out of her pocket, the one she talked to about the bloody clothes.
"He's not missing. He's here," the detective said. "Go ahead and eat."
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