Another Woman's Treasure by JB Lynn

Author:JB Lynn [Lynn, JB]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-27T05:00:00+00:00

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Piper had been generous enough to allow the Concordia sisters to use her shop, even though it was closed for the evening.

Winnie and Amanda waited for Bea to show up, nibbling on cookies and sipping tea.

Piper was in the back, making a ton of noise, singing Disney songs as she set up for the next day.

Bea knocked on the door. Winnie hopped out of her seat and unlocked it for her, letting her inside.

“Where were you?” Bea demanded to know as they sat down.

Winnie did her best to ignore the accusation that she heard in her younger sister’s voice. “I went to the beach to draw. I lost track of time.”

“We were worried,” Bea told her.

Winnie nodded her understanding, knowing that telling them her phone battery had died would just sound like a defensive excuse. Instead, she focused on Amanda. “Did you kill him?”

Amanda blinked, leaning slightly away in her seat. “What?”

“Well, you were the only one in the shop when Richardson ended up dead,” Winnie said, fighting to keep a straight face. She couldn’t help it, she was too amused by her older sister’s horrified expression.

“Oh,” Bea said, warming up to her part and winding Amanda up. “That is the most logical explanation.”

Amanda stared at her younger sisters; her eyes wide. “What? You both think that I killed him?”

Bea shrugged, and it was such a great performance that it took all of Winnie’s self-control not to burst into laughter.

It was the shrug that pushed Amanda over the edge.

“You think that I killed him?” she yelled.

Bea shot Winnie a worried look, and Winnie knew she was concerned they had taken things too far.

“We’re just kidding,” Winnie told her quickly, “we know you didn’t kill him.”

“You’re just kidding?” Amanda yelled even louder. “A man is dead. I was questioned by the police. I was fingerprinted,” she said, as though it was the most single traumatizing event of her life.

“Take it easy,” Bea soothed.

“And you think it’s okay to tease me about something like that?”

Amanda was physically shaking, and Winnie felt a twinge of guilt.

“We were just kidding,” she repeated. “We were just trying to lighten the mood.”

Piper, who’d heard the yelling, came out of the kitchen and asked, “Is everything okay? Can I make you something? A cup of warm milk, maybe?”

Amanda rounded on her, and Winnie knew that it wasn’t going to go well. “No,” Amanda said through gritted teeth. “I don’t want a cup of warm milk. I want to be able to get back into the shop. I want people to stop dying at the shop.”

Piper nodded sympathetically and backed away without saying another word. A moment later, she burst into the chorus of Hakuna Matata.

“She was just trying to help,” Winnie said.

Shaking her head, Amanda plopped into the nearest chair, crossing her arms over her chest and sulking like a three-year-old.

“Look,” Winnie said. “I’m sure being fingerprinted is standard procedure.”

“It is not standard procedure to have a dead body in your store,” Amanda insisted.

“She has a point,” Bea said.

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