Bloodbaths and Banana Cake by Addison Moore

Author:Addison Moore [Moore, Addison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hollis Thatcher Press, LTD.
Published: 2018-12-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

The Cutie Pie Bakery and Cakery has hit its late afternoon lull, so I’ve stolen a moment to sit in the corner with my sisters who just so happened to stop in for coffee, and my bestie, Keelie, is kind enough to join us despite the fact she’s downright disgruntled with a majority of us.

“Meg,” Keelie bleats her name like a threat. Her hair is piled on top of her head in a knot, and it’s creating the cutest little blonde waterfall. “I understand you’re seeing my boyfriend.”

Lainey gives me the side-eye because we both know how ridiculous that sounds.

Meg grunts out a laugh. “I understand he’s single.” A dark curtain of hair falls forward as she leans in menacingly toward Keelie. Meg has always reminded me of an angry elf, and I mean that in the nicest way possible. She’s got the pointed ears, the sharp nose, and she’s all around adorable. “But he won’t be for long. That boy has moves that a girl like me can appreciate.”

Keelie garbles out something unintelligible before slamming her hand over the table. “You better watch your back, Lemon. Nobody comes for my man and lives to tell about it.”

Meg leans in hard. “If he was truly your man, you wouldn’t have cut him loose! Your loss is my gain, Turner.”

Lainey lifts a hand between them, and that sparkler on her finger catches the light like a star in the night. “Forest and I set a date.”

“What?” I squawk. “Tell me, tell me. I’m so excited I can’t contain myself.”

Lainey purses her lips a moment as the suspense builds around us. “July twenty-fifth.”

“July!” we chime in unison as we do an odd little fist pump toward the ceiling.

“Oh, I can’t wait.” I give Lainey’s hand a squeeze. There’s a bridal shower to plan and an entire dessert menu to come up with—that is, if you allow me to do the honors.”

“Are you insane?” Lainey inches back. “There’s nobody else I’d even consider. It’s you all the way, Lottie. In fact, I’m going to let you help me design the wedding cake. All I know is it’s going to be big and beautiful and taste like heaven.”

“Done and done. I’m on it.”

Meg nods my way. “So, what’s new with you, Lot?”

Keelie’s eyes widen like twin blue spheres. “Yeah, what’s going on with the investigation? Need help tracking down the bad guys?”

“Actually, I might.” I wrinkle my nose a moment. “I need to take a pole dancing class somewhere in Leeds and soon. A young girl by the name of Birdie is teaching it, and it turns out, not only was she, too, having an affair with Judge Shumaker, but she’s got his bun in the oven.”

Lainey gasps. “Who’d you hear that from?”

“Cindy Mitchell, the woman who believed until recently that she was the one and only other woman.”

Meg growls, “More like other, other women. Men are such pigs.”

Greer’s comment about bacon comes to mind, which in turn unleashes all thoughts of those unholy kisses Everett doled out that night.

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