Delia Darling Mysteries Box Set by Jessica Lancaster

Author:Jessica Lancaster [Lancaster, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gemini House Publishing
Published: 2018-10-05T23:00:00+00:00

ACT THREE

One Last Ditch Attempt

On schedule, as always, Betsy arrived with a plate in hand, wrapped completely with plastic and smushing the cake into a mound.

“How’s everything with the visit?” I asked.

“Fine,” she said with a stern nod. “Took some blood, he offered her cake, she lectured him on a number of things, and he took it, even though he could’ve said it wasn’t for him.” She huffed. “I mean, I was going to call you, so you could come in and do that thing you do when you get a little glint in your eye.”

“I’m not going to get myself arrested.”

She smirked. “We’ll see after visiting Mona’s if you will or won’t end up getting yourself arrested.”

We hadn’t told Arthur of the plan, even though he lived just across the road from her, but he’d probably find out soon enough given he’d be sat in the living room looking out into his garden.

As we arrived at Mona’s house, she opened the door immediately. Her face sank from the smile into a deep-set wrinkle of a scowl. “Can I help you two ladies?”

“Peace offering,” I said, taking Betsy’s plate of cake.

“If you baked it then--”

Betsy gasped. “Billy baked this,” she said. “So, please accept this as a token of how sorry we are for intruding on you this morning.”

“I’m sorry,” I finally said. “I don’t know what came over me, but it won’t happen again.”

She accepted the plate. “I would invite you in, but I--”

“That would be wonderful,” I said, stepping forward.

Mona stood upright, expanding her chest slightly to fill the void in the door. “But I’m expecting my—my—my daughter,” she said. “She’s been having troubles, and I keep telling her to go for counselling. Something I should have done with my ex-husband, but I don’t think you can counsel a cheat from not cheating.”

“We’ll be off then,” Betsy said.

As soon as we turned around and her door slammed shut, I saw Arthur’s smiling face and head pop out of the front door. I had only a moment to process Mona’s actions and words before we were combated with Arthur shaking his head and tutting deeply into the crux of his neckline.

“Got what we—” Betsy began.

“I thought you weren’t going to do anything stupid,” Arthur said. “I didn’t think you’d be crazy enough to go back over today.”

“I gave her a peace offering,” I told him. “I’m not doing anything wrong.”

Arthur glanced to Betsy. “Did she tell you that I told her against it?”

“You didn’t quite tell me not to,” I replied. “But it wasn’t something I did maliciously.”

Betsy chuckled. “Oh, I tried,” she said. “But you know what she’s like. If you can’t stop her from doing it, you might as well join her and keep her out of damage.”

“Damage?” I asked.

“Trouble,” she corrected. “But yes, from causing damage.”

I laughed. “You wouldn’t mind if we came in,” I said.

He eyed us both. “So, you can both watch her house?”

Betsy grumbled. “She did say she was expecting guests.”

I hummed. “I think we should,” I added.

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