Chapter 5
When they got home, they discovered Mavis had overcome her fear of exploring the apartment.
Becca’s shriek, however, sent Mavis scrambling right back under the bed. Aaron’s sister’s scream was followed by a wail, a wail one might have assumed was coming from a woman who had lost the person she loved most in the world, a wail that indicated Becca’s very heart was being ripped out.
“My Jimmy Choos!” Becca collapsed on the floor beside the pair of red patent leather stiletto heels. She gathered the shoes up in her arms, almost as if they were a baby, pulling them close to her ample bosom and sobbing. “My Jimmy Choos!” she wailed. “They’re ruined.”
Before Becca had gathered the pumps up to herself, Aaron had seen how they had been chewed beyond repair. It didn’t take a detective
