“Wow, you must be a great negotiator,” she said, smiling at me.
“Not hardly,” Tanda said, moving over and sitting down at the table.
Aahz and I did the same.
“So you know our friend Skeeve here,” Tanda said. “Could you please tell us what your name is, and how you know him?”
The girl smiled at me, holding my gaze in her beautiful brown eyes.
“My name is Glenda. My father sold Skeeve the map you are using to search for the golden cow.”
Glenda turned back to the counter and opened a cabinet that contained what looked to be a freshly baked loaf of bread.
Tanda glared and me and I just shrugged. I had told her and Aahz everything that had happened when I bought the map. This young lady had been nowhere around That much I was sure of. I would have remembered seeing her.
Now I was even more confused. Why had the guy who sold me the map sent his daughter here to meet us? For what reason?
“So the map was a scam after all,” Aahz said, scowling at her, “and you’ve been waiting here to collect something from us. Is that it?”
Glenda laughed and smiled at Aahz. “The cynic of the group, I see.”
Then she smiled at me again.
I smiled right back at her.
“He does tend to look at what could go wrong a lot.”
“He would make a great lawyer,” she said.
I wanted to ask what a lawyer was, but just nodded instead.
She turned to look directly at Aahz.
“No, I assure you that, as far as I know, or anyone knows, the map is real.”
“So what are you doing here, then?” Tanda asked.
Glenda shrugged. “My father thought you might need some help about now. And when my father told me about Skeeve after he bought the map, I thought he might be cute. I was right.”