Birthday Cake and a Murder: A Rainey Daye Cozy Mystery, book 5 by Kathleen Suzette

Author:Kathleen Suzette [Suzette, Kathleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

The door swung open and Cade walked through it looking like a breath of fresh air. He smiled when he saw me. “Good morning, Rainey.”

“Good morning, Cade.” I couldn’t help but smile back. Then I giggled. “What can I get you, Cade? Scrambled eggs and toast?” Cade was a bit predictable with his food choices. I didn’t mind. It made things easier.

“It’s like you read my mind,” he said with a grin and took a seat at the diner counter.

I got him a cup of coffee and then turned in his order.

“What do you know?” I asked when I got back to him. He had remained tight-lipped about the investigation long enough and I wanted to know what was going on.

“Are things a little slow in here?” he asked, looking around the diner. “There’s usually a lot more people in here this time of day.” Sam’s was only open for breakfast and lunch and he was right. It was breakfast time, and we didn’t have many customers.

“Things slow down a bit when summer ends, but it’ll pick up again. Don’t ignore my question.”

“You tell me what you know, first,” he said.

I filled him in on the details that I had collected, including the break-in of Silas’s room at the boardinghouse.

“Why didn’t someone tell me that earlier?” he asked, sounding exasperated.

I shrugged. “Silas thought it was nothing and told Karen and Sue that. But Karen thinks now that it was Charlie that did it to scare him and that he killed Silas.”

“I guess it could have been. It would have been nice to know this earlier. We went through Silas’s room, but there wasn’t a lot there. He didn’t have many possessions. We didn’t look at fingerprints because we didn’t know there had been a break in. Of course, there have been people in there before his death and I’m sure afterward as well. Sue and Karen for sure.”

“What else do you have?” I asked him. “I know you have to know something by now.”

He shrugged. “We’re waiting for the fingerprints to come back on the knife and our IT guy hasn’t unlocked the phone yet. So, not a lot.”

I studied him. Was he holding out on me? I thought he was, but pushing Cade never worked. I had to be subtle if I wanted to get something out of him.

The front door opened and Mom stood there. When she saw Cade sitting at the front counter, she grinned.

“Well, good morning Detective Starkey!” she nearly shouted.

He turned and smiled. “Good morning, Mrs. Daye. How are you on this lovely morning?”

“Fantastic now that I’ve gotten a chance to see you, along with my unwed daughter.”

“Mom!” I hissed.

Cade’s shoulders shook from the laughter he was holding back. “Mrs. Daye, you have a lovely daughter,” he said with a bad cockney accent.

“I have two lovely daughters, but one is married. You can have this one.”

I sighed. “Stop it.” I handed her a menu.

“Rainey, I need you to cater a party I’m having,” Mom said as she opened the menu and laid it flat on the front counter.

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