A Yarn of Murder (Homespun Crochet Cozy Mysteries Book 1) by Patti Benning

Author:Patti Benning [Benning, Patti]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Summer Prescott Books
Published: 2021-07-25T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Jo drove back home slowly, pausing every now and then to wipe away a tear. She was feeling a horrible mixture of sadness and anger. Mostly, though, what she felt was self-pity. Why wasn’t she good enough? When had their relationship gone so wrong? She had thought things were fine. Sure, they had been going through a rough patch lately, but overall, hadn’t things been good?

She was still sniffing when she pulled up her driveway, but the tears had mostly stopped. She had a lot to do, between checking on the cria and catching up on some spinning. Life didn’t grind to a halt just because she was sad.

She met her eyes in the rearview mirror before she got out of her car and wondered if maybe Cole had a point. Yes, she was sad that their relationship was over, but life had to go on. She would cry over him, but it wasn’t the end of the world. Maybe he wanted someone who would be unable to function properly if they had a breakup. She just wasn’t that kind of person. She had been raised to believe that things that needed to be done, got done regardless of what was going on in the rest of her life. Being upset didn’t mean you couldn’t lift bags of feed or move the animals into a new pasture. It just meant you might want to carry a handkerchief while you’re doing it in case you started crying.

Taking a deep, bracing breath, she got out of the car. The female alpacas were all contentedly eating or lying down, relaxing. Over on the other side of the yard, Darwin watched her with his ears pricked up, while behind him Yeti and Coal were nibbling at the hay she had thrown in there that morning.

“Hey, you,” she said, going over to pat Darwin’s neck. “I’m going to head out to check the fences in the other pastures, then how do you feel about getting some new grass to graze on? You’re running a bit low in here.”

Alpacas weren’t very hard on natural foliage. They had padded feet, unlike goats and sheep, and they didn’t eat very much for animals of their size, but nonetheless, it was good to rotate their pastures occasionally, so the grass had time to regrow.

“Hey, Jo!”

She looked up to see Harper waving at her from Rose’s porch. She waved back and called out, “Hi, Harper!”

“Do you have a minute?”

Jo hesitated, then shrugged. “Sure. I’ll be right over.”

She figured Harper wanted to talk about Rose. It felt almost unbelievable that it was only earlier that morning that Rose had called to tell her she was in the hospital. So much had happened since then. Her chores could wait for a few more minutes.

She walked around the pasture and started the short hike across the lawn toward her neighbor’s house. Darwin and then Yeti came up to follow her along the fence line, and she could see Harper grinning at what must be a funny looking procession.

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