Foul Play at the Fair by Shelley Freydont

Author:Shelley Freydont [Freydont, Shelley]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Mystery, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9780425251553
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

“Hey, where are your manners?” asked Ted.

“Where is she?” Donnie’s fists clenched and he continued to look around the room.

“I’m right behind you, butthead.” Roseanne appeared in the doorway, then slipped past Donnie to stand behind Liv.

“Oh, for crying out loud.” Ted picked up the phone. “I guess that’s four for lunch.”

“Where were you?” Donnie asked, trying to see Roseanne, who was using Liv as a buffer.

“Why are you following me?”

“Because I knew you were going to do something stupid.” He glared at his sister.

“Who’s for roast beef and who wants turkey?” asked Ted over the yelling.

“Well, I didn’t.”

“They followed you in here.”

“Make that two turkeys on wheat with lettuce and mayo, a roast beef and Swiss wrap, a butternut squash soup, and one pastrami on rye, extra pickles,” Ted said into the phone. “Delivery. Better throw in a couple of bags of chips, a couple of Cokes, and could you ask Henry to pick up our regular order from the Buttercup? Thanks, Genny. I’m sure it’s going to be fine. Yes, yes. Just the kids being rambunctious. Sure I will. Thanks a lot.” He hung up.

“Now, who would like to go first?”

“I told her not to come here. But no-o-o, she had to sneak off and talk to Miz-z-z Montgomery.” Donnie glared at Liv, his eyebrows knitted forbiddingly, dark curls tumbling over his forehead; Liv noticed he had the beginnings of a pimple in the crease of his nose.

“Stay away from my sister. She’s just a kid and she doesn’t know what she’s talking about.”

“I do, too,” Roseanne answered around Liv’s shoulder. “So just shut up.”

“Both of you,” Ted said. “Be quiet. And apologize to Ms. Montgomery for bursting in like you were raised in a stable.”

“I apologize, but Rose—”

“He doesn’t have any right to—”

“Quiet.”

Both of them stopped talking, Roseanne scowling at Donnie, Donnie scowling at Liv.

“Do you think that between you, you could get out a coherent story?”

They both started talking at once.

Ted raised his eyes to the ceiling. “I guess not. Donnie, bring that chair into the other office. Ladies, after you.”

Liv smiled in spite of the current of agitation ricocheting around the room. One thing she’d learned in the last few weeks: this job wasn’t going to be boring.

They sat around Liv’s desk, Liv in her office chair, and Ted between the two siblings.

“Now, Roseanne, why don’t you start?”

She shot a worried look to Liv. “You didn’t tell them, did you?”

Liv shook her head.

Roseanne slumped with relief.

“And she didn’t tell me,” Ted said.

“Rosie shouldn’t’ve told anybody,” Donnie blurted out.

“You’ll get your chance, so stifle yourself.”

Donnie shut up and slouched down in his seat.

Roseanne shot Liv a beseeching look. “I’ve been thinking about what you said, Ms. Montgomery. About telling the truth and all. I was coming to tell you that I’d decided to talk to Mr. Gunnison. Not those men that were just here. Just the sheriff. I’d just gotten inside and I was kinda standing across the hall deciding, you know. Then I saw those two men come in.

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