Country Cottage Mysteries: Books 1-3 by Addison Moore & Bellamy Bloom

Author:Addison Moore & Bellamy Bloom [Moore, Addison & Bloom, Bellamy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B0837S2M3R
Publisher: Hollis Thatcher Press, LTD.
Published: 2019-12-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

L uke Parker isn’t Luke Parker at all. He’s Luke Abernathy—a very much in debt, very much married, father to four-year-old twin boys. No wonder he didn’t want his picture anywhere near Shelby’s social media. It would have been a dead giveaway.

“Wow.” Georgie shudders as I run all this by her. “You and Detective Hot Stuff felt all this out last night?” Her left brow hooks into her forehead. “What else did you happen to feel out?” She elbows me in the ribs as she tries her best to find out if we moved the needle on our relationship.

“Don’t get too excited, Georgie. We’re still firmly planted on first base.”

Georgie makes a face just as a small crowd moves over toward the register in the Country Cottage Café and we step aside so that they can put in their orders. Emmie is at the helm and the entire café holds the hypnotic scent of fresh pumpkin spice mini muffins.

Georgie grunts, “Okay, so first base isn’t a bad place to be. But get busy , would you, Bizzy?” She howls with laughter. “See what I did there?” She steps in close. “What do we do now?”

Fish wraps herself around my ankles and I pick her up. “Right now, I want to track down his wife, Sarah Abernathy, and grill her a bit. You know, get into Luke’s psyche from another angle.”

Fish licks her lips as she looks up at me. Good thinking, Bizzy. I’ve met my fair share of fat cats who like to run around. And he sounds like one of them.

I nod down at her. Fish has always been wise beyond her years—or months, considering she’s just a kitten.

“I wasn’t talking about the killer.” Georgie scoffs as she tucks her fists into her hips. “What do we do about you and Detective Kisses-a-Lot? Macy’s already scored three home runs in the past week alone. You’re down three, and next up at bat, Biz. I say we spruce up your nighttime accouterments and slam one out of the park.”

I make a face as I look past her at the crowd. “Never mind about Jasper and me. He still needs to call off his ex. And maybe his mother. Until then, we’re still not officially official, so the people in the grandstands can put away their mitts. I’m not knocking anything out of the park anytime soon.” And every cell in my body is protesting the idea.

“You’re no fun,” she grunts as she pulls out her phone. “I’ll do a little digging and find out where to find this Sarah chick.” She strays off to an empty table just as Emmie’s brother, Jordy, heads this way. Both his flannel and jeans look as if he was rolling around in the grass. His face looks as if it has just enough grime on it to make his blue eyes glow like lanterns.

“Hey, Bizzy. I just cut back the hedges, mowed the lawn, and fixed the fountain out front. The Montgomerys sent another truck full of pumpkins.

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