Messin' With the Kidd by Diane Vallere

Author:Diane Vallere [Vallere, Diane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781939197177
Publisher: Polyester Press

I killed the rest of the afternoon with buyer-related tasks. At four thirty, I shut down the computer and slicked on a coat of lip-gloss. I pulled my sleeve over my hand and polished the fingerprints off my patent leather handbag.

Mallory stood in my doorway. “Before you meet up with Andi, you should know Tradava cancelled a bunch of Vongole orders, and that might be where the surplus inventory came from.”

“That sounds like confidential information. How do you know that?”

“I overheard Kyle and Emily arguing the night of the gala. They didn’t realize I was in here. I heard him say he’d cancelled his entire Vongole order, and he couldn’t believe she’d bought all of this crap, and she yelled at him that he had no right to tell her how to do her job. They were pretty mad at each other. He said she had to pick one or the other, and she didn’t answer. The last thing I heard him say was he couldn’t take it anymore and was going to end it.”

“What happened after that?”

“I don’t know. I bolted. I didn’t want to be around if they decided to make up, if you know what I mean.”

“Did you tell any of this to the cops?”

“No. When I said I bolted, I mean I bolted from the store. I wasn’t here when she was… found.”

“How did you hear the news?”

“Belle called me the next day to let me know.”

I nodded calmly. Did I believe her? I wasn’t sure. As far as workplace personalities went, Mallory seemed a little unstable.

I thanked her for the info and left. In the past eight hours Mallory had insulted me more than once, and then she made a concerted effort to confide in me. Those two actions seemed at odds with each other, but neither action changed two very important facts:

a) Last night, Detective Loncar had played a conversation for me where Mallory had threatened someone for a promotion, and

b) Today she confessed to being right here the night Emily Hart was murdered.

And whether she realized it or not, she also told me she really didn’t have an alibi.

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