I looked from the light glinting on the surface of my wine, finding Nick waiting with a curious, amused expression. He was holding out the plate with the bread. By his wondering expression, I guessed he’d held it there for a while. “Um, no. No, thank you,” I said, glancing down to find the supper Nick had made for me almost untouched. Giving him an apologetic smile, I sent my fork under another bite of pasta and white sauce. It was his supper, my lunch, and both delicious, and even more so since I hadn’t done anything but make the salad. It would likely be the last thing I ate today because Ivy had a date with Kist. That meant I’d be having dinner with Ben and Jerry in front of the TV. I thought it unusual she would go out with the living vamp, seeing as he was worse than a monkey when it came to sex and blood, but it was resolutely not my business.

Nick’s plate was empty, and after setting the bread down, he sat back and played with the end of his knife, making it lay just so atop his napkin. “I know it’s not my food,” he said. “What’s the matter? You’ve hardly said a word since you—ah—came over to the museum.”

I covered my smirk with a napkin and wiped the corner of my mouth. I had caught him napping, sitting with his lanky legs up, his feet propped on his cleaning table, the eighteenth century tea towel he was supposed to be restoring draped over his eyes. If it wasn’t a book, he really didn’t care about it. “Is it that obvious?” I said, taking a bite.

A familiar, lopsided smile came over him. “It’s not like you to be this quiet. Is it about Mr. Kalamack not being arrested after finding, er, that—body?”

I pushed the plate away in a flush of guilt. I hadn’t yet told Nick I’d switched sides in the “Let’s get Trent” issue. I hadn’t, really, and that’s what bothered me. The man was slime.

“You found a body,” he said as he leaned across the table and took my hand. “The rest will follow.”

I cringed, worried Nick might tell me I’d sold out. My distress must have shown because he squeezed my hand until I looked up. “What is it, Ray-ray?”