Foiled (The Belinda & Bennett Mysteries, Book Seven) by Amy Saunders

Author:Amy Saunders
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: female sleuths, amateur sleuths, romantic mysteries, cozy mysteries, humorous mysteries, cosy mysteries
Publisher: Amy Saunders

Chapter 18

They’d tracked Ginny down that afternoon and Belinda and Victoria had kept an eye on her in downtown as she shopped. Belinda followed Ginny home, and since they didn’t have a convenient twenty-four-hour surveillance team to rely on, Belinda went home shortly thereafter.

But she and Bennett returned that night. Bennett didn’t even raise an eyebrow when she pulled out a pastry box. He was finally used to the fact that she brought food–and he never objected to helping her eat it.

“Ginny just did normal stuff earlier?” Bennett said, choosing his poison as she held the box open for him.

“She was just shopping.” Belinda stared into the box, not really seeing the pastries, as good as they smelled. “I never even saw her check her phone or anything.”

“Huh,” was all Bennett said as he took more interest in his dessert.

Belinda watched him a moment as he wiped confectioner’s sugar from his chin, wondering again what he and Victoria had really talked about while she was out that afternoon. Not that Belinda didn’t believe what they told her. But she didn’t believe that was all there was to it.

“Maybe she snuck out of the fundraiser because she had to be there,” Bennett said, interrupting her thoughts. “She’s relatively young–maybe she had somewhere else she wanted to be that night but was under obligation to make an appearance. Have you ever done that?”

Bennett waited for her answer as if she was the ultimate authority on society life. Belinda started to respond that she’d never done that when her memory betrayed her. “Well…maybe I have.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

Belinda picked at a lemon square. “I don’t remember all the details now…it was years ago. But I know I slipped out of some obligatory events.”

“Some?” Bennett stopped eating, a smirk on his face.

“So?”

“So, we just went from ‘maybe but I don’t really remember’ to ‘I snuck out of some events.’”

Belinda set the lemon square down in dismay. She’d just accidentally talked herself into a corner. And Bennett never let her escape these moments. “I said I don’t really remember clearly.”

“It kinda sounds like you do.” Bennett watched her wriggle, a smile on his lips. “Come on,” he said when she wasn’t immediately forthcoming. “Let’s hear what Belinda did back in her bad girl days.”

Belinda gave him a look but admitted defeat internally. She could never hide from him. “All I ever did was leave early with my friends, or go to meet them. It wasn’t very exciting. We went to the movies and stuff. It’s not like I ran riot around Portside afterward. And I know I didn’t sneak out that many times.” She did know Kyle left early every time, plans or no, but she usually felt bad about it and stayed.

“You’d meet Victoria?” He said it casually enough, but Belinda detected something in his tone that wasn’t so chill. She guessed he wanted to dig up her romantic history…well, he wasn’t getting all of it. Especially now.

“Sometimes. I know we went to the beach once.

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