A Novel Crime by A.C.F. Bookens

Author:A.C.F. Bookens [Bookens, A.C.F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

6

Ms. Wang was having a field day with my joy, and I loved it. I purposefully picked up the pep in my step as I stopped by her store on Thursday morning. I was dying to tell someone about the plans for my date, and Mart had been out on her own romantic adventures the night before. So, Ms. Wang it was.

“That sounds perfect. Lots of time to talk. Lots of time to hold hands.”

I giggled as I imagined my tiny hand in his huge one. I didn’t hate the idea.

“What are you going to wear?”

I had obsessed over this already and had no idea. I didn’t have money to buy a new outfit, and I couldn’t wear the same black dress I’d worn when I met Delaney, no matter how I shifted the bow. “Nothing.” I blushed. “I mean, I have nothing to wear.”

Ms. Ward came out from behind the counter and looked at me. I was wearing my usual uniform for work – a maxi dress and cardigan with sandals. “Do you have any shoes that are slightly sexier than Birkenstocks?”

I picked up my left foot and turned it around. I loved these shoes, but sexy they were not. “I do have these silver sandals with those strings that go up my ankle from a wedding I was in a few years back.”

“Can you walk in them?”

“They’re just low heels, so yeah?”

“Okay, wear those with that purple dress I’ve seen you in. Carry a sweater. Put on more make-up and wear some really good-smelling lotion. Oh, and earrings. That’ll do it.”

I think my mouth was hanging open. This tiny woman who only ever had her hair up in a make-shift French twist and whose only sweater had sported a hole in the elbow for as long as I’d known her had just put together a perfect outfit for me.

“Thank you, Ms. Wang. Wow. You could do this professionally.”

“Only for you, dear. Only for you,” she said as she went back around the counter.

“Oh, and by the way, I’ve ruled out my only two suspects for the murder up the street.”

I saw Ms. Wang’s body stiffen. “You’re still poking around at that, huh?”

“Well, yeah. I mean, I don’t know that the police are doing anything at all.”

“What do you mean? They’ve been here several times to ask me questions.”

“They have?” I found that surprising since I’d still not heard from anyone.

She looked a little flustered and came out from behind the counter to restack the perfectly stacked boxes of Granny Smiths. “I mean, I guess they think I might have seen something since I was here.”

“Maybe. But I was here, too. . . “

“Oh, forget I said anything. Just be careful, okay? I’ve read some on that Delaney Fishman of yours. He and Montague were into some shifty business.”

I laughed. “So, I’m not the only one who has been snooping, am I?”

She cut me a hard look but then forced a smile. “It did happen just up the street. Kind of close to home.

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