Deadly Lies by Stone Mary & Cross Bella

Author:Stone, Mary & Cross, Bella [Stone, Mary & Cross, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Suspense
Amazon: B07WLXNFN6
Goodreads: 51373191
Published: 2019-08-21T07:00:00+00:00

20

Kylie stopped at the local McDonald’s on the way to her meeting with Nate Jennings and ordered a super huge of just about everything on the menu.

Other people, when they were depressed or bothered about something, couldn’t eat. Kylie had the opposite problem. When stressed, her stomach became a black hole, constantly grumbling for anything she could put in it: the greasier, the better.

As she popped a handful of ketchup laden fries into her mouth, she realized she was very stressed…about Lincoln Coulter.

Which made her even more angry and stressed.

Taking a long sip of sweet tea, she tried to force her mind in more productive directions, namely the case she was supposed to be working on. Sweet little Emma Jennings.

She’d spent the entire day going through the rest of Arnold Jennings’s entire inventory of paintings, thinking if three were missing, how many more? It turned out…at least another dozen, and Kylie wasn’t even finished yet. The paperwork was a mess. Paintings, both finished and unfinished, were stashed in the attic, under beds, in closets. In a word…everywhere.

Emma had been horrified.

Denise Summers hadn’t just been shagging her grandson, she was a terrible assistant to boot.

“How long did it take Mr. Jennings to complete a painting?” Kylie had asked the sweet old woman.

Emma had just waved her hand. “Anywhere from hours to twenty-five years.”

Kylie hadn’t understood. “How’s that?”

Emma sorted through the newly sorted stack and pulled out a painting of a lopsided little boy and his…bear? Wooley mammoth? No, a dog. A hideously ugly dog that seemed very close to eating the child.

“My dear Arnold finished this one in a single morning.”

Kylie tried to look impressed, but she secretly thought dear Arnold had needed to spend another couple decades on that one before making it presentable.

Art and couture fashion…Kylie didn’t understand it.

Emma leafed through the stack and pulled out another one. Kylie almost jumped. The woman in the portrait very closely resembled the nun in one of the horror movies she’d watched not long ago.

“This one, Arnold worked on for over five years, off and on.” Emma looked at the horrifying thing with abject admiration. Maybe the woman was a touch demented. “He was never quite satisfied, so he’d bring it out and dabble every once in a while.”

With a loving look, Emma ran a finger over the nun-woman’s mouth, and Kylie tensed, waiting for the thing to come alive and chomp off half of Emma’s arm.

She’d definitely been watching too many scary movies.

Nevertheless, she’d been glad when Emma set the painting back down, and when the old woman turned her back, Kylie pulled a sheet over the canvas, hating how the eyes seemed to watch her.

Actually, all the eyes seemed to watch her.

Shuddering at the memory, Kylie took a huge bite of burger and chased it with a few more fries.

Vader whined beside her, begging her with big, pitiful eyes. She glanced over at him. “No. This is mine.”

He whined again, and she softened and tore him off a chunk.

He gobbled it up just as a new update hit the radio.

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