Double Jinx by Gretchen Archer

Author:Gretchen Archer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Amateur Sleuth, Women Sleuths, Murder Mystery Series
Publisher: Henery Press
Published: 2016-10-05T04:00:00+00:00

He grabbed my hand and we left the haunted house in a hurry. I tried to pay attention to where we were going and how we were getting there, but I couldn’t get past how small my hand felt in his. I couldn’t concentrate at all; I could barely breathe. When we stopped and he let go, I felt lost, but I wasn’t, because I’d been here before. The last time I stood at this door, I felt sure I’d see Mr. Covey on the other side, and not in passing. But it turned out to be an insurance lady.

“Is this your office?” I asked.

“Sort of.” Baylor punched in a code on the keypad and pushed open the door.

“Does ‘sort of’ mean yes or no?” I asked.

His head rocked from side to side. “Yes,” he said. “Why?”

“Just wondering.”

“Wait.” His hand was on the doorknob. “Have you been in this office before?”

“Sort of.”

He studied me, hard, which made my hair buzz, then pointed at my freckles and said, “The Easter egg.”

He knew who I was.

There’d been an incident at my All Your Eggs in One Basket event last Easter in the conservatory. Those geese were not tame as advertised. Those geese were rabid. Things were bad enough already when the ringleader goose, the meanest one, somehow found and ate the $10,000 golden egg. Me and my hundred casino guests crowded around and watched the gold egg slide, lug-lug, down that crazy goose’s throat, sideways, in slow motion, and I was like, I’m having an incident. Then that crazy goose started honking, flapping his wings, and took off like he was on fire. My assistant Traci chased him out the door, through the lobby, and out the main entrance, and that goose was never seen or heard from again. I was like, I’m going to jail.

But I didn’t. I came here. To this office. I met with an insurance woman with very pretty red hair. Not carrot orange or strawberry red, but a warm pumpkin copper color. I felt like I’d seen her before, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. She said she needed me to fill out a lost revenue report for the umbrella policy, but the whole time it felt like she was trying to get me to confess to being a goose owner. Like me and my pet goose were in cahoots on the gold egg heist. I was like, gross.

Now, I was like, all by myself. I’d fallen in love at first sight with a man who would never trust me, all because of my sordid history with a wild goose. Which hardly mattered, because right inside his office, behind the door, was a double stroller. It had baby things in it. Just Baylor was married with babies. The stroller was mint green, the exact color of Esmerelda’s face, so it was impossible to know if he had girl babies or boy babies or maybe one of each.

“July?”

It never works out for me.

He leaned in; our faces were so close.

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