Cakes and Mistakes (Sweets and Secrets Cozy Mysteries Book 3) by A.R. Winters

Author:A.R. Winters [Winters, A.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

I had a late shift starting at the bakery, and I did manage to get there early enough for coffee and some non-dentist-approved strudels. Despite my sins against dentistry, I still needed a root canal, and part of the deal for my mother babysitting Marianne was that I reschedule the procedure immediately.

Moms are always going to mom.

Settling down after a nice big slurp of coffee, my attempt to dial my usual dentist was thwarted.

I was receiving a call.

Dean.

I would rather have been having the root canal. With no anesthetic.

“What’s going on, Dean?” I answered. Maybe he wasn’t worse than a root canal.

Dean was complicated for me, but I was starting to be able to admit that he wasn’t worse than painful dental procedures. It was a new high for him to have achieved with me. Yay him.

“So, I see you legitimately had a dentist appointment this morning, Jean,” he said, obviously having seen me as I was pulling in during the arrest.

“I did, Dean. Are you trying to imply I didn’t?”

“Don’t you usually go into the city for your dental appointments?”

“Not for this one. And how do you know where I go for my dental appointments, Dean?”

He paused a moment. “Educated observation.” Was this related to the mystery that was Aunt Betsy’s sources?

That wasn’t important, so I pushed it out of my mind.

“Uh-huh.”

“Wait, so you were legitimately there for a dentist’s appointment?”

“Yes, Dean. I was there for a root canal I had scheduled with Alvin a little while back. It was an emergency issue and he took me on. Well, before he got arrested, anyway.” I felt like I was being interrogated about this case. “If you really doubt me, you can have a word with Alvin’s receptionist. She literally saw me walk in afterwards to be told that Alvin was dealing with personal issues and wouldn’t be available for some time.”

I supposed personal issues were one way of labeling Alvin’s problems.

“Well, uh... oops, then. I thought you were being nosy when you shouldn’t have been. I apologize.”

Oh sure, I was definitely still being nosy where I shouldn’t have been. I just was getting better at covering my tracks. And maybe I hoped he would spill something useful during the root canal.

But that idea was becoming more and more unnecessary.

“Apology accepted.”

“I wasn’t just calling to admonish you for being helpfully nosy. I was calling to tell you, so that you can tell others, that Alvin Carmichael has officially been arrested for suspicion of the murder of Robert Knox. I know you probably already figured it out. I just wanted to free you of having to dance around the reason why. Janelle and the others might still be anxious despite what I’ve told them.”

“Good to know, I guess.”

“Try to avoid stumbling into more murder situations, Jean. Your parents worry about you.” A beat of silence. “I worry about you.”

“I don’t need your worry, thank you very much.”

“Too bad. You have it anyway. I hope you have a good day, Jean.”

I grunted in return.

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