Cooked and Booked by Emma Ainsley

Author:Emma Ainsley [Ainsley, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Summer Prescott Books
Published: 2023-06-05T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

“I’m so sorry,” Maggie said. She fussed with the food carrier while Brett took a seat behind his desk. “I just wanted to bring something hot for you to eat for dinner.”

“You have nothing to apologize for,” he told her. “And you have no idea how much I appreciate dinner.”

“Okay, but I interrupted your interview, and my presence apparently stirred something up in those two.”

“The interview wasn’t going anywhere even before you showed up,” Brett said. “I don’t know what to make of those two.”

“What do you mean?” Maggie asked.

Brett shook his head and accepted a plate of food from her. “This smells so good,” he said, then sighed. “These women come in here demanding to know what we’re doing about their relative’s murder. I filled them in on what has been going on, but that isn’t good enough for them.”

“I hate to say it, but that doesn’t sound too unusual. You’ve certainly dealt with demanding questions before,” Maggie pointed out.

“Yeah, but the second I start to dig in a little deeper and ask them questions that might help with the investigation, they both shut down,” he said. “They keep insisting that this all has to do with their grandmother and Ruby stealing her recipes.”

“But they won’t answer the rest of your questions?”

“Nope,” Brett said. “The truth of the matter is, they behaved like they wanted to block me at every turn. They seem to have already made up their minds about what happened to Sarah Beth.”

After they ate, Maggie left the rest of the food at the office with him. He promised to be home as soon as he could, but the possibility of state police swooping down on him over the investigation meant more hours and time in the office, making sure everything was in order and simple for them to understand.

Back home, Maggie picked her phone up and browsed through her messages, looking for anything more from Ruby. It disturbed her that her best friend was taking the accusations of a stranger so hard. It disturbed her even more that the family members of a dead woman insisted that Ruby was somehow responsible for the death. They had even suggested Maggie herself might be the killer. Why were they so quick to assume the murder had anything to do with either of them?

Maggie decided to call Ruby and check in on her. She had a feeling that she might be feeling down again. The phone rang and went to voicemail before she picked up. Maggie decided not to leave a message but sent her a text instead.

“I wanted to check in on you and make sure that you’re doing alright,” Maggie wrote.

Ruby called a moment later. “I’m sorry,” she said as soon as Maggie picked up the phone. “I was downstairs looking through things again.”

“Why?” Maggie asked. “Did something happen?”

“I was still searching for any mention of Laura Beth Swenson,” Ruby admitted.

“But why?” Maggie asked. “Surely you’re not convinced that you might have accidentally committed plagiarism?”

“I don’t know what I am,” Ruby said.

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