Gingerbread Murder by Summer Prescott

Author:Summer Prescott [Prescott, Summer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
Goodreads: 27862050
Publisher: Maven Publishing Co.
Published: 2015-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

“They suspect Spencer?” Echo demanded, the next morning at coffee.

“Well, they’ve questioned him. Right now, Chas says he’s just a “person of interest,” Missy explained.

“I don’t believe it for an instant,” Kel said with a frown. “I have good instincts when it comes to people, and I just can’t fathom that our upstanding young veteran would have anything to do with such nonsense.”

“That’s what I’m thinking too,” Missy nodded, her hands wrapped around her coffee mug. “I texted him before you guys got here, so he should be here any minute. We’re going to get to the bottom of this. If he actually is guilty, then, so be it, but if he isn’t, we’re going to do everything we can to clear his name,” she vowed.

At that moment, Spencer came in the front door, and was clearly not himself.

“Hey, Spencer. Come have a seat with us. I’m going to get you some coffee and a cupcake,” Missy directed the morose young man to a chair. He looked as though he hadn’t slept well.

“Thanks,” he said dully, with a ghost of a smile, when Missy put his mug and cupcake down in front of him.

“Darlin,’ I’ll just say right now that we don’t think you had anything to do with that horrible thing that happened,” she began, patting his hand.

“Well, I’m glad that you don’t, because I didn’t have anything to do with it, but the police seem to think otherwise,” he muttered.

“Young man, tell us what they asked you. If we know what they’re thinking, we may be able to do some sleuthing of our own and help you prove your innocence,” Kel leaned forward, as serious as they’d ever seen him.

The Marine looked torn. “I don’t know if I’m actually supposed to talk about it,” he said.

“Well, it’s not like they’re going to choose any of us to serve on a jury anyway, so I don’t see why it would be a problem,” Echo remarked.

“We just want to help,” Missy encouraged the listless young man.

“It’s not like I have anything to lose at this point,” Spencer sighed. “When Officer Scoggins picked me up to take me to the station for questioning, he said that I had to give him my shoes, so I had to go back to the apartment to get one of my new pairs and put them on,” he began.

“Why on earth would they take your shoes?” Echo was mystified.

“Footprints at the scene, I’d presume,” Kel waved her off. “Go on.”

“They asked me why I had been taking care of Moose, so I told them that I had offered to do it to help you out,” he told Missy.

“They asked a lot of questions about how long I’d been in town, what I’d been doing two nights ago, if I had any plans for my future. You know, a bunch of stuff that made me feel like a total loser,” he shrugged.

“That must’ve been awful for you,” Echo murmured, getting up to get him another double chocolate cupcake after he polished off the first one.

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