A Cauldron of Hot Coffee: Enchanted Enclave Mysteries Books 1-3 by Samantha Silver

Author:Samantha Silver [Silver, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-24T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

“I’m really not sure this is going to work,” I said the next day as I got dressed in the fanciest clothes I owned – a blouse and a pair of slacks that I had bought for my job as a receptionist.

“Don’t worry, it’ll be fine,” Leanne said. “We need to confirm that Karen was going to see Jean McKinney about a divorce, and there’s no other way to do it except to go into the office.”

“Yeah, but why do I have to be the one to pretend that I have a long-lost husband who no one can find?”

“Because literally everyone in town knows Kaillie and me. No one knows you, though.”

“Yeah, but won’t everyone find out about this if that’s what I tell the lawyer?”

“That’s what client confidentiality is for,” Leanne replied. “Your lawyer isn’t allowed to tell anybody anything you’ve told them, so no, your secret will be safe.”

“It’s not a secret, it’s a lie.”

“Po-tay-to, po-tah-to.”

“You know, the more time I spend with you, the more I’m starting to understand why Kaillie has the reputation of being the good one in the family.”

“Yeah, that’s probably fair enough. Now come on, let’s do this.”

Leanne and I walked into the office on the ground floor of one of the commercial buildings on Main Street. It was plainly decorated, basically exactly what I would have expected from a small, generalist law firm. The walls were beige, the furniture simple and obviously inexpensive. When we walked in, a receptionist with curly brown hair who looked to be in her early forties looked up at us.

“Hello, do you have an appointment?” she asked.

“Yes, my cousin here made one this morning,” Leanne replied. “She needs to see Jean for an initial consult. Eliza Emory.”

“Of course,” the receptionist said, all business. “Please have a seat, and we’ll call Mrs. Emory up shortly.”

Eliza and I sat down in the waiting area, joining a man who held a manila folder full of documents close to his chest, as if he were worried that if he released his grip on the files at all they’d vanish into thin air.

I probably looked just as nervous as the man was. I wasn’t a good liar. Actually, scratch that. I was a terrible liar. I didn’t like misleading people, but Leanne was right. We needed to get as much information as we could. It could really prove that Kyle had the perfect motive to try and kill his wife, especially given as her appointment was the day after she was stabbed.

The receptionist called the man in after about three or four minutes, and then five minutes after that, she called my name.

I stood up, Leanne flashed me a confident smile and gave me a thumbs up, and motioned for me to get in there.

I followed the receptionist through a short hallway, and she led me into a decently-sized office occupied by a woman in her fifties, with her grey hair tied back into a bun, her glasses reflecting the screen of the computer she stared at.

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