Chapter 15

Jordan glared at them and took her precious cup of 'real' coffee to her office. Woody had switched all the coffee in their apartment to decaff months ago and the only place she cold get the real stuff was at work. Her husband had tried to get Lily to make the same change at work, but when Garret found out he threatened to fire her! Lily had then put in a second pot, clearly marked 'for Jordan only', but it was never touched.

Of course, just as soon as she slammed the door of her office closed, the baby shifted and she had to head to the bathroom. Glaring at anyone who even looked like they were going to talk to her, she made her way there and back without talking to anyone.

Back in her office once again, she stared at the mini mountain of paperwork she was behind on and pulled a file towards her. Since she was already in a bad mood, she figured she might as well tackle some of the backlog. Jordan had a hard time trying to imagine the stack that would be waiting for her when she got back from her maternity leave!

By the time her stomach growled telling her that it was lunch time, Jordan was truly sick of paperwork…change that…she had been sick of paperwork before she started and now she was even more so! However, because she had been able to work uninterrupted, except for bathroom runs, she had her mountain down to one measly file!

She thought about doing it before going to lunch.

She thought about the pleasure it would give her to have all of her work caught up on.

She thought of the look on Garret's face when she told him what she had accomplished.

She even gave a spiteful thought to the fact that it would be good he was already in the morgue when he had his heart attack.

But then she thought of what he might do and the extra amount of work he would pile on her head when he discovered she had nothing left to do.

Her hand retreated from the file as if it were on fire! She grabbed her purse, and headed for the elevator telling the receptionist that she was going to lunch.

Jordan was thrilled to find out that there had been a multi car accident on the freeway and that there were several fatalities on their way in. Well, she wasn't actually thrilled that the people were dead, but in all honesty, if there wasn't death, she would be out of a job.

She was suited up and ready when Garret arrived with the first two of the eight bodies from the accident. Both Garret and Woody were in totally agreement that at this stage in her pregnancy there would be no late nights for her and even though Jordan pretended to resent their decree, she was secretly glad of it, because by 5pm she was so tired that she was more than ready to go home.

When she got home she relayed the amusing story of what she had told Lily about the security guard and her and Woody's sexual positions of choice. She had expected to have a good laugh with him about it, but instead, Woody had looked hurt, and after excusing himself, left the room. It wasn't until then that it dawned on her how the man that was in love with her, who wanted to have a sexual relationship with her, might react to that kind of story.

Jordan thought about telling him she was sorry when he came back into the room later, but she had learned well from Max that Cavanaugh's preferred to hide their heads in the sand, and hope things just went away, so that was what she chose to do.

It took them a total of three days to finish up the work from the accident, and Jordan was glad of the work. She would much rather be doing autopsies than paperwork any day of the week!

Meanwhile, as Jordan enjoyed the work she was doing, Woody was not so happy with his current workload. He had looked up from a phone call that had just ended to see his boss standing next to his desk. The stack of files in his hands and the apologetic look on his face told their own story. It was the time of the year every cop or detective on the force hated. It was time to review all of the unsolved cases that were still considered active even if there had been no action on them in a long time. The cases remained active until the statute of limitation ran out on the crime. In some cases it was only a few years, but as with a murder case, that one was never closed until it was solved. So every year they had to at least take a look at the cases to see if there were any new leads before putting them away for another year.

To be continued…