A Dress to Die For (Addie Foster Mystery Series Book 7) by Kimberley O' Malley

Author:Kimberley O' Malley [O' Malley, Kimberley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781946682291
Publisher: Carolina Blue Publishing, LLC
Published: 2022-04-25T16:00:00+00:00

13

By midafternoon, after a long nap and lunch, Addie felt well enough to go into the store for a few hours, over very vocal protests from pretty much everyone. Between Grey and her father, she had a constant shadow. But after last night’s close call, she didn’t mind in the least.

Erin met her and the girls when they entered the store.

“Oh my goodness, Addie, are you a wonderful sight! How are you feeling?” she squealed, a bit too loudly.

Addie cringed, not quite able to hide her reaction.

“Oh, sorry,” Erin whispered, taking in her boss’s oversized sunglasses. “Can I get you some water? Or maybe some pain reliever?” she asked.

“Water would be great, thanks,” Addie said and continued on to place the girls in their spot behind the counter, giving them each a doggie treat from Gertie’s collection, ones shaped like wedding cakes, in keeping with the theme of this week’s event. The girls accepted them in their usual fashion, Lily oh so daintily, and Gracey like the fur-covered alligator Addie suspected her of being.

Grey bopped into the room, smiling from ear to ear. She braced herself.

“Should I ask?” she said aloud, knowing there wasn’t any point to the rhetorical question. Grey lacked any ability to keep secrets.

“Jonah caught your perp!” he squealed in a tone that probably set dogs off barking for miles. “Isn’t that just the best news ever?”

Addie reached behind her for the stool and landed heavily on it. She took a moment before answering him. She closed her eyes, hoping against hope this was the answer to her prayers but somehow knowing it wouldn’t be so easy. Her visions were never that wrong. And hers had not yet played out.

“What has he found out? More importantly, how do you know, and I don’t?” she asked.

His tan face reddened, and Grey dropped his gaze to the floor. Suddenly, her lunch turned to acid in her stomach.

“Grey, what have you done?” she asked in the tone mothers have been using for thousands of years.

“I, uh, might have been hanging out at the station when they brought in one Wilbur T. Jones, of nearby Myrtle Beach, South Carolina,” he said by way of explanation and without meeting her gaze still.

“What else did you ‘just happen’ to overhear?” she asked, not bothering to hide her sarcasm.

“Uh, well, Wilbur might be a ‘person of interest’—their words, not mine—in your drugging last evening.”

Addie’s eyes darted around her thankfully deserted store.

“Do you mind keeping your voice down, Grey? There might be someone left in Ocean Grove who doesn’t know I was roofied last night,” she reminded him.

He glanced around before answering. “Oh, sorry, Addie. But in my defense, there’s no one here except the three of us.”

She gave him her patented stop-mud-in-mid-air look she’d learned at Aunt Clementine’s knee.

“But you didn’t know that when you spoke, did you?” she countered.

“Oops?” he said, offering up his world-famous lopsided grin.

“Fine! You know I can never stay angry with you. What else do you know about Mr. Jones?”

His smile fell.

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