Murder: Up on the Rooftop (THE 12 MYSTERIES OF CHRISTMAS Book 4) by Lilly York

Author:Lilly York [York, Lilly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wide Awake Books
Published: 2018-11-13T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Nik couldn’t help but smile when she woke the next morning feeling refreshed and ready to tackle the day. She and Felix were working on the Christmas Eve menu. Hopefully his plans would include the ingredients she’d already placed on order. Some of them were quite expensive for this time of year and she didn’t want anything going to waste.

She wandered into the lodge dining room and poured herself a strong cup of coffee and grabbed a yogurt and a banana then headed to her office. She sipped her coffee then looked at the paperwork in front of her.

When someone knocked on the door she glanced at the clock and could hardly believe two hours had passed. “Come in.”

Felix opened the door and smiled. “I brought you a cup of coffee.”

She glanced at her long empty cup gratefully. “Thank you. I have no idea when I ran out.” She stood up. “Have a seat.”

The two of them worked over the menu, using Enrique’s plans as a starting point. Some of the dishes Felix knew well with only a couple being specialties of the other chef. Even so, he was able to put all the ingredients to good use. Nik was thankful. Felix was thrilled with the raise she offered him. It wasn’t as much as Enrique was given, but it was still significant. She also asked him to start interviewing sous chefs as soon as possible. He wrote up an ad and she called it in to their local paper, as well to the Denver paper. Hopefully he would get some good applicants. Denver was a cesspool of wanna be chefs.

As soon as Felix left she hurried to the restroom. The coffee went straight through her and she didn’t have time to make it to the normal employee restroom, so she popped into the larger guest facilities. She nearly finished when she heard someone enter then Mildred ask if anyone was in the room. When she received no response, she began talking freely to the person with her. To Nik, it sounded as if she was speaking with Judy, the head of hospitality.

Mildred started the conversation. “I’ll tell you what’s going to happen. She’s going to run this lodge into the ground with her grandiose ideas.”

“You don’t know that. I think we need to give her a chance.”

“The way Will gave her a chance?”

“You don’t mean…she had nothing to do with that. She’s nothing but a slip of a little thing. There’s no way could she have gotten him up on that roof.”

“He probably wouldn’t be dead if she’d not bought this place. I should have it, not her.”

“You couldn’t afford it. And I can’t believe you would accuse her of running the place into the ground. Your family are the ones who let it go to pot. She’s right. The place does need a major overhaul. It was starting to look like a museum, and not a good one.”

Mildred harrumphed. “You mark my words. Her taking over this place isn’t going to go well.

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