Instigator by DelSheree Gladden

Author:DelSheree Gladden
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, adventure, mystery, humor, amateur sleuth, female sleuth, cozy mystery, humorous mystery, funny mystery, new adult
Publisher: DelSheree Gladden

19: Hero-ing

When I wasn’t staring at the contestants and envying their success, I was stupidly chatting up as much of the staff as possible about the broken-but-now-fixed keycard reader. More than a few gave me strange looks when I started up a conversation with, “So I guess they got that keycard reader on the storefront door working again.” The majority of the people I talked to hadn’t even known it was broken and didn’t care even a little.

Less than five people I talked to had any clue what I was talking about. Of those five, one was Chelsea, who knew everything that went on, another two were floating bakery assistants like Pamela who used the door frequently, and the last two were film crew guys who only seemed to know because they’d seen the repair guy fixing the door that morning when they came in. Nobody seemed to know who first figured out the door was broken and told Pamela. There was, unfortunately, any number of youngish tech crew and show crew guys wandering around the set. All of which were extremely busy setting up for the live and show and didn’t stop moving long enough to be asked a question.

Having made the cast and crew think I was a creep, I settled in next to the coffee machine. I felt better just being near such a fabulous piece of equipment, and it allowed me to watch most of the bakery from an out of the way position. As I watched the contestants buzz around getting supplies and setting up their stations the way they wanted them, I went back through the timeline of the now infamous keycard reader.

Friday night was the last time anyone used a keycard. The clumsy assistant, Evan, had carried his dented boxes and bags of powdered sugar into the storefront. The show side of the bakery closed down shortly after. The storefront, due to its fame, kept unusually late hours for a bakery and didn’t close until ten that night. Neither keycard logs nor security footage showed anyone else even approach that door until the next morning when Pamela breezed through without even attempting the card. She came back ten minutes later and got on with her work.

I huffed, irritated I didn’t have more to go off of with the sabotage until I considered the information I’d just gone over. Evan had left. Pamela had left. Then Pamela came back. Evan never did. He’d popped back up on the security footage in the show area, but he never actually came back through the storefront door. That struck me as more than a little odd.

Bored watching the contestants fidget with things anyway, I decided to see if Coco knew where Evan had gone that day. She seemed to keep a pretty keen eye on that door. Abandoning my post, I approached the door and tapped my new, all-access keycard against the reader. A soft click sounded a moment later and I smirked, just a little. Morales

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