Cozy Up Sampler by J A Whiting

Author:J A Whiting [Whiting, J A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J. A. Whiting Books and Whitemark Publishing
Published: 2020-02-08T05:00:00+00:00

15

The overcast morning was a pleasant respite from the week of hot, sunny weather and Lin hoped the cloud cover would remain for the day to keep the temperature a bit cooler. Before heading off to the first gardening job of the day, she drove to Anton Wilson’s house to drop off the family tree papers she’d borrowed in order to show Viv. She conveniently did not return the interior layout drawing of Viv’s house with the other information contained in the folder.

Just as her finger was about to push on the doorbell button, the door flew open causing Lin to let out a little gasp of surprise.

“You’re bright and early. Come in. Have a coffee? Some breakfast?” Wilson had an apron slipped over his head and tied behind his back. The smell of bacon floated on the air and Lin’s stomach growled.

“I don’t have time really. I just wanted to return the folder.”

“Oh, nonsense. A quick coffee and a muffin.” Wilson took the folder from Lin and turned for the kitchen. “Did your cousin enjoy seeing the family trees?”

“She did.” Lin followed the man into the kitchen where he poured her a steaming cup and indicated the sugar bowl and creamer. “We’d like to find out more about our ancestors. Viv would like to meet you someday.”

“That would be very nice.” Wilson set a blueberry muffin on a white plate and placed it in front of Lin. He turned the bacon over on the griddle and poured an egg mixture into the pan set on the stove burner.

“Do you always make a big breakfast?” She bit into the muffin packed with huge berries. Lin wondered if Wilson had noticed that the interior drawing of Viv’s house was missing from the folder.

Wilson used a fork to swirl the eggs in the pan. “It is the most important meal of the day, you know.”

Lin decided to ask the man some questions. “Did you know the man who was killed down at the docks? Greg Hammond?” Since Greg’s name was written on the paper Lin removed from Wilson’s kitchen table, she wondered how he would reply.

Wilson eyed Lin as he stirred the egg mixture. “I was familiar with him. I don’t believe we’d ever spoken though.”

“What do you think happened?”

“Someone wanted him dead.” Wilson scooped the eggs onto two plates. He placed one in front of Lin who was about to protest, but the man said, “You need your strength. You have a demanding job.”

Lin couldn’t resist the smell so she picked up the fork and dug into the eggs, hoping Wilson hadn’t poisoned them. “Did you know anything about Hammond? Why would someone want him dead?”

Wilson used tongs to remove the bacon onto a plate. His jaw set and he paused with the tongs suspended in the air. “Hammond was an unscrupulous man. He played a dangerous game.”

A shiver ran down Lin’s back. “What sort of game?” She laid the fork across the top of her plate.

“A game he had no business sticking his nose into.

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