A Freshly Baked Cozy Mystery Box Set by Kate Bell & Kathleen Suzette

Author:Kate Bell & Kathleen Suzette [Bell, Kate & Suzette, Kathleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-20T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

“All right, I’m depending on you to win that Rudolph for me,” I told Alec as we stood in front of the ring toss. Small goldfish bowls sat on Styrofoam rings that floated in a large pool of water. Alec needed to toss a ring onto five of them to win the Rudolph for me. Otherwise, we were taking a goldfish home with us.

“All right, I’ve got this,” he said, warming up his arm.

“I want Bambi,” Jennifer said, looking at the stuffed animal hanging from the top of the booth.

“You hear that? You’ve got two stuffed animals to win,” I told him. “That arm better be strong.”

He grinned, keeping his eyes on the goldfish bowls. “No problem,” he said and let a ring go. It landed perfectly over the bowl and he laughed. “See?”

“I see,” I said. “Now don’t miss this one,” I said as he let another loose.

It landed squarely around another bowl.

“Wow, look at that,” I said. I kept an eye out for the woman in a black trench coat, but couldn’t find her. Jennifer would look at the crowd every few minutes, scanning nervously. I still wondered if she had imagined things, but she seemed so sure some woman had been following her.

Alec tossed the next two rings, and they sank perfectly around the fishbowls. “One more and you’ve got a Rudolph,” he said and let the last one go. It hit the top of a fishbowl and bounced off, sinking sadly into the pool of water.

“Oh, no!” Jennifer and I howled together. “You missed!”

“You get one of the smaller animals for four rings around the bowls,” the man behind the booth said.

“Which one do you want?” Alec asked me.

“Oh, no. I want Rudolph. You’ll have to try again,” I said, leaning on the front of the booth.

The man running the booth handed Alec a small stuffed cat. “You still get a prize anyway,” he said.

“What do we do with the cat?” he asked me. “It’s awful cute. Are you sure you don’t want it instead of Rudolph?”

I grabbed the kitty from the man and handed it to a little girl walking by. Her eyes lit up and her mother reminded her to say thank you.

Ten minutes and thirty dollars later, we had our stuffed animals. Alec looked at me as the man behind the booth handed us our prizes. “We could have gone to Walmart and spent half that amount.”

“Yes, but where’s the fun in that?” I asked him.

He sighed and rolled his eyes. The man had no clue about fun.

I looked up just as Elmer walked in with Ann Marie, and I groaned.

“Who’s that?” Jennifer asked, looking in the direction I was.

“Ex-boyfriend and the girl that use to steal most girl’s boyfriends,” I said.

“Mom, she’s not even pretty,” she said.

Have I mentioned how much I love that girl?

“Thanks, honey, but she really is pretty. Just not nice,” I said.

“And how could you date that guy? You should be embarrassed,” she said, curling her lip up.

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