English Trifle by Josi S. Kilpack

Author:Josi S. Kilpack
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Cozy Mystery
ISBN: 9781606411216
Publisher: Revell
Published: 2009-07-14T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

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Help me!” Sadie screamed as she ran for the door and began pounding again, this time with far more fervor. “Please,” she screamed, her racing heart making the cold room of no consequence. “Please help me!”

As with her earlier attempts to call for help, no one answered her and no one came to her rescue. She felt her throat thicken as tears rose in her eyes. This was no time to give in to a good cry, but another look over her shoulder at those shoes made it even harder to swallow and she clenched her eyes shut as if that could somehow make everything go away. But the attempt at denial did no good; she was still locked in a vegetable pantry with a corpse and the weapon used to kill him. If that wasn’t something set to trigger anyone’s sensibilities to the breaking point, she didn’t know what was.

She banged on the door again. “Please help me,” she yelled as loud as she could, but more than ever her words seemed to be sucked into the very walls of the storage room. She had no way of knowing if anyone on the other side could even hear her through the insulation. Her fist was throbbing from where she’d hit the door so many times. She had to calm down and try to think rationally.

“Think,” she told herself. “Push away the emotion and just think this through.” She closed her eyes and focused on taking deep breaths, hoping to calm herself. Once she was breathing and thinking normally she once again considered her situation and prioritized what she needed to do.

It was a silly exercise since her only priority was to get out of here. It was so early in the morning, and no one other than Austin had been in the kitchen—Austin! Sadie opened her eyes. Would he have come back and locked her inside the vegetable pantry?

Maybe. He had been so antagonistic in the library yesterday, then the inspector said someone had told them the tip was ridiculous, and now, after talking to him in the kitchen, Sadie was a prisoner. She had to get out of here! But how?

Her whistle!

She frantically dug it out of her pocket, smiled gratefully that she’d thought to bring it, and brought it to her mouth. After taking a deep breath, she blew out all the air, immediately gasping at the shrill sound that echoed off the walls of the cooler. She put her hands over her ears and winced at the lingering ringing. In the process the whistle fell to the floor.

“Holy smokes,” she whispered, almost unable to hear herself over the ringing. That had not worked out the way she’d thought it would. She looked at the whistle on the floor, feeling betrayed.

Unless she could find some earplugs hiding among the rancid-looking rutabagas, she’d have to come up with another solution. Though she considered leaving the offensive whistle on the floor, she picked it back up and shoved it in her pocket—committing to think hard before using it again.

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