Local Foods 03 Farmed and Dangerous by Edith Maxwell

Author:Edith Maxwell [Maxwell, Edith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780758284679
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2015-04-12T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Cam arrived home and changed out of her nice clothes into jeans and an old sweater, glad to be home alone again. It’d been a long day, spent mostly talking to people. She’d read an article once about introverts and extroverts. Being around others fed the extroverts. For her, socializing and being in the company of folks, even those she knew and liked, drained her and made her hungry for solitude.

School should be out by now. She pressed Ellie’s number, but the girl didn’t pick up. She took a minute to walk through the farmhouse, with an eye to Albert navigating it in a wheelchair or on crutches. Marilyn was right. Not only would he have to get up the outside stairs, but also the only bedrooms were on the second floor. The couch in the living room wasn’t a sofa bed, and she couldn’t expect an elderly man to sleep on those narrow, sagging cushions. But if he wasn’t safe at Moran . . .

She shook her head. After grabbing the egg bucket, she stuck her phone in her pocket and headed outside. What with Albert’s health, plus a murderer on the loose, she didn’t want to be without the lifeline of a cell phone even for a few minutes.

In the coop, in air becoming fragrant with the sharp tang of fresh chicken poop, she gathered all the freshly laid eggs from the past few days. She would clean up the droppings later in the week, when the weather warmed to double digits again. Definitely not today, though. She fed and watered the hens and closed them in, grateful the birds were all still alive, then carried the bucket to the barn to wash the eggs before she stowed them in the egg fridge. She slid open the wide barn door a few feet and slipped inside, then switched on the light and closed the door behind her.

“What the heck?” On the floor in front of her were two cat carriers. And the carriers were emitting the funny gargling speech of chickens. “Who’s leaving me more hens?” An envelope sat on top of one carrier. She extracted a piece of paper and read.

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