Fudgement Day (Chocolate Cozy Mystery Book 3) by Meadows Wendy

Author:Meadows, Wendy [Meadows, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Majestic Owl Publishing LLC
Published: 2017-04-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Olivia traipsed up the stairs to her apartment, exhaustion secreted beneath her heavy lids. Gosh, what a day.

After the chat with Mr. Horn, she’d had no free time whatsoever. They’d come back to the shop and launched into a chocolate-making frenzy, followed by hours of serving customers, a staff meeting, and then there’d been that chocolate explosion in the kitchen.

That had taken another hour to clean. Alberta had promised to follow the recipe to the tee in the future—the poor woman had resembled a chocolate snowman after the incident. It wasn’t the first time trouble had bubbled over in the Block-a-Choc Shoppe’s kitchen.

Finally, Olivia had a second alone to contemplate that strange letter.

Who’d sent it? And why had they needed to threaten Jason in the first place?

Olivia yawned and unlocked the gate that separated the store from her home. She shuffled into the hall, then clicked it shut behind her. Dodger barked and sprinted down the hall toward her, claws skittering on the wood.

“All right, all right,” Olivia said, and fluffed the fur in the center of his head. It stood on end in a punk-rock style Mohawk. “Gorgeous. Very in vogue, Dodgy.”

“Olivia!” Alphonsine darted out of her bedroom. Her French accent hadn’t faded in the past few months, but her English had improved a lot. “Olivia, I found something,” she said.

“What’s wrong?”

Alphonsine sucked in a breath, then presented a handful of pictures. “I find them in my closet, at the back, behind all of my shoes. They were not there before this weekend. No. Impossible.”

Olivia frowned and took the pictures. She rifled through the images. Her stomach tried a slow crawl into her legs. “What on earth?”

A shot of Kerry Walter grinning from ear to ear, the sun behind her. Another picture of Kerry sitting beneath the trees with the Horn residence in the background. And another of Kerry at the “bus bench.” It had to have been taken on the same day Olivia had spoken to her about her relationship with Jason.

“Alphonsine, what? Where?”

“This is how I feel,” Alphonsine said and pointed at Olivia’s expression. “I do not understand. I clean out my cupboards on Friday. No pictures. Just shoes.”

“And today?”

“I get chocolate from the incident on my shoes, and I decide, okay, I clean them. Oui? So I clean all the rest, too.”

“And then you found these.” Olivia kept flipping through them, though she’d already absorbed all the information she’d get.

Someone had come to her home and hidden these pictures in her son’s old room. Shivers ran down Olivia’s arms. “Thank you, Alph,” she said. “If you find anything else like this, please let me know.”

“Oui. I will,” Alphonsine said. She hesitated a moment, then hurried back to her room. She entered it but left the door open behind her.

“Oh, heavens,” Olivia whispered. She walked to her bedroom and entered it, an ache already pounding between her eyes. This was bad. This was terrible, in fact.

No one except Olivia and Alphonsine had the key to the upstairs gate and front door.

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