Gold Flake Chocolate Murder (A Maple Hills Cozy Mystery Book 6) by Wendy Meadows

Author:Wendy Meadows [Meadows, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-12-27T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Tori walked to the back door and slammed it shut. “I'm very confused,” she admitted in her anger. “What's going on here?”

Lidia put her hand on Nikki's trembling shoulder. “I'm going with you, honey. We'll get through this.”

“I'm going, too,” Hawk told Nikki.

“Me, too,” Tori chimed in.

“No...no,” Nikki said, lifting her shaking hands up to her mouth. Closing her eyes, she thought as images of her innocent son whispered into her scared mind. “Hawk, you stay here. Lidia and Tori will come with me.”

“No way,” Hawk disagreed in a firm voice. “Ringston is a deadly man.”

“Both sides are playing a game, Hawk. Can't you see that? Ringston is very clever. I think I know why he's disguising the thieves as FBI Agents, too. But there's a traitor in his ranks. I think that traitor is Mayor Brown. Perkins said Ringston had men set up to steal the gold at another location. How did he know that?”

“You’re right, there has to be an insider,” Hawk admitted.

Nikki drew in a deep breath as her mind created a clumsy theory. “Ringston is going to send his thieves to steal the gold. They'll deliver it to Cliff Falls dressed like government men, but the gold will be placed in a secret location and not the designated bunker. Ringston will then blame the thieves for the stolen gold and attempt to eliminate them.” Nikki paused and paced around her kitchen. “The thieves have a plan of their own. They want Ringston occupied. And Ringston must be taken out of the picture in the end, too... Perkins said he would give me evidence to go with my story, right?”

“They want Ringston looking right instead of left for a few days,” Hawk said. “My guess is the thieves are going to replace the real gold with fake gold and deliver the fake gold right to Ringston's front door.”

“And when the fake gold arrives, the authorities will be arriving with it,” Nikki finished Hawk's thought for him.

Hawk nodded. “But,” he added, “Ringston was supposed to be taken out of the photo, so the fake gold, if we're right, is meant to take down someone else. So, let's see who we have here, okay? We have Ringston, Warden Wayberry, and Mayor Brown. We know Ringston isn't leaking information to the thieves. The thieves have been in prison, which means it's not likely Mayor Brown has been making secret visits.”

“Warden Wayberry is the insider,” Nikki mumbled. “The thieves will use the fake gold to capture him in their trap and Warden Wayberry will be sent off to prison. It's the perfect punishment for a man like him.”

“Which leaves Mayor Brown,” Hawk said suspiciously. “We have Ringston, and we found our insider, but what about the Mayor? He has to be involved.”

“I guess it'll be my job to find out how,” Nikki told Hawk. “Lidia, Tori, let's go pack. We're going back to Fall Cliff.”

Lidia drew in a scared breath. “And I was hoping to spend the day sipping coffee and making delicious chocolates with you,” she told Nikki.

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