Furbidden Fatality by Deborah Blake

Author:Deborah Blake [Blake, Deborah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2021-02-23T00:00:00+00:00

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In the morning, things didn’t exactly improve.

“You have got to be kidding,” Kari said when she opened the door at seven to find her brother standing there, a big grin on his handsome face.

“Hi, sis!” Michael Stuart Jr., known as Mickey, was three years younger than her and they couldn’t have been more different. The long-awaited son had been spoiled rotten as a child and had already been running wild by the time their mother died of cancer when he was sixteen. Without her influence to restrain him, and with Michael Sr. as an example, he’d taken up drinking, drugs, smoking, and motorcycles. Not necessarily in that order.

Like his father, he was absurdly attractive and charming to women of all ages, many of whom he lived off until he got tired of them or they got tired of his complete lack of responsibility. He blew into Kari’s life every once in a while, usually when he wanted something. She loved her little brother, but she had given up any illusions she had about him long ago.

His curly brown hair was neatly trimmed and his large brown eyes with their ridiculously long eyelashes seemed clear, albeit filled with dancing laughter. A fancy bright red Honda motorcycle sat next to her beat-up Toyota, which she still hadn’t gotten around to replacing.

“Hello, Mickey,” she said, more resigned than upset. “You might as well come in.”

Her brother jerked his head toward the field. “Are those chickens?”

The birds in question were wandering slowly in the direction of where he’d parked his bike, probably attracted by all that shiny metal. The chickens, which had belonged to Daisy and which Kari had apparently inherited along with everything else at the sanctuary, were brown and tan, and free range in the most extreme example of the word. She never had any idea where she was going to find them, although at night they usually made their way back to their coop without too much encouragement.

Periodically she found pale green or brown eggs that some hen had laid and then wandered off and forgotten about. Kari wondered if she was a bad person if she kind of hoped one would find its way onto her brother’s flashy motorcycle.

“Yes, they are,” Kari said. “And no, I’m not going to give you any money, if that’s why you came.”

Mickey just chuckled. “How about some breakfast, then? I’ve been driving for hours.”

He grabbed a piece of toast as he sat down, the one she’d been just about to eat when he knocked on the door. Kari put a cup of coffee in front of him and got one for herself before joining him. She might as well get this over as soon as possible so she could get back on with her life.

“This is charming, sis,” Mickey said, waving the piece of toast at Kari, splattering marmalade onto the floor. Fred, who was sitting in his usual spot under the table, cleaned it up right away, his tail wagging.

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