Kittens Cupcakes & Complications by Amity Allen

Author:Amity Allen [Amity Allen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bad Baby Press
Published: 2022-07-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

I glanced in the rearview mirror and frowned.

“What’s that look for?” Stephanie’s tone was casual, but her gaze was sharp.

“I don’t know. It’s weird. I could swear that truck back there is following us.”

She rolled her eyes. “We’re back in Cedar Grove. There are only like five destinations in this town. Everyone’s going the same basic direction all the time.”

“Probably.” Still, I kept flicking my eyes to the mirror, getting more nervous every moment the truck didn’t turn off a different direction.

Suddenly, I turned the wheel right, sliding onto a side street.

“Where are you going?” When I didn’t answer, Stephanie twisted her neck to look behind us. “Don’t tell me you’re trying to see if that guy is following us. This isn’t the movies. I’m telling you—it’s a coincidence.”

“Really?” I gestured at the mirror.

Stephanie looked again and, seeing that the truck had turned with us, she swallowed hard. “Oh. Weird.” She glanced at me. “Pull over.”

“What? Why?”

“Let’s see what he wants.”

“I don’t know if that’s safe. Don’t forget, there’s a killer loose in Cedar Grove.”

She snorted. “It’s the middle of the day. Besides, you and I are suspects in that murder. Why would the real killer want to get rid of us? I’d think he’d want one of us to take the fall for him instead.”

I wasn’t sure she was right, but as I glanced in the mirror and saw the truck still there, a flash of anger invaded my nervousness. Who did this person think they were, trying to scare us?

I hit the brakes and pulled the car over.

The truck glided past us, the driver never glancing our way.

Stephanie was almost on my lap, leaning as far over as she could to see who was driving the truck. “I don’t know him.”

“I do. That’s Michael. He’s one of the guys Luke had working on setting up for the wedding.”

She sank back over to her side of the cab. “So, he was there the morning Phillip was killed?”

I nodded, then eased onto the road, doing a U-turn and heading back for the main road. “I don’t know when he left, but he was there.”

She tapped manicured fingernails on her jeans. “Seems like we need to ask Michael some questions.”

I nodded, not especially eager to do that. But why was Michael following us?

The instant we got back to the farm, Stephanie and I went looking for the kittens because, on the drive, I’d focused on how I hadn’t seen them that morning and began to catastrophize. When I burst into the kitchen and found their kennel empty, I went into full-blown panic mode. The babies were still so small, and it did not look like they’d grow more at all. Anything could happen to them.

Half an hour later, my cousin and I met up on the porch again, both empty-handed. “I didn’t see any sign of them. Like, any sign at all. Usually, if I was here for thirty minutes, at least one of them would show up to say hi to me.

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