One Feta in the Grave by Tina Kashian

Author:Tina Kashian
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2018-12-14T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

Thursday rolled around, and Lucy and Katie contemplated not attending Archie’s funeral, but at the last minute they decided to go and pay their respects. Most of the town would attend the Catholic church on the corner of Ocean Avenue and Shell Street that morning, and Lucy felt like they should join them.

The streets around the church were packed with cars, and a black hearse was parked directly in front of the church. A bright, orange flag imprinted with FUNERAL was attached to the rear-view window and waved in a slight ocean breeze.

The last funeral Lucy had attended was for her grandmother. It had been in the dead of winter, and she’d stood shivering at the gravesite as the casket had been lowered into the snow-covered ground. She’d cried and had come down with a cold the next day. It was a miserable experience.

She’d hated funerals ever since.

A closed casket, surrounded by arrangements of fresh flowers, was in the front of the church. Lucy and Katie sat closer to the back of the church and listened to the organ music as more and more people shuffled inside and filled the pews. Lucy wasn’t surprised to see that the church quickly filled. Ocean Crest was a close-knit town and when one of their own passed, many mourners would show up and pay their respects. Even though Archie had only been an Ocean Crest resident for a little over a year, he was a boardwalk businessman and considered a local.

Lucy spotted Mayor Huckerby in the front pew. Directly behind him was Ben Hawkins. Ben tapped him on the shoulder and Thomas turned and they exchanged words.

Interesting.

She wondered what kind of relationship the current mayor and the man running for his political position shared.

Rita Sides was also in the front row. Dressed in a form-fitting black dress, her blond hair contrasted with her dark outfit. She sat with Beatrice Tretola and several others ladies from The Big Tease Salon.

Beatrice passed Rita a tissue and Rita blew her nose. She wasn’t sporting an engagement ring, and once again, Lucy wondered at Rita’s reaction when she’d learned the diamond Archie had given her was not real, but a fake, cubic zirconia stone. Still, Rita appeared pretty broken up about Archie’s death, and a lump rose in Lucy’s throat.

“I really hate funerals,” Lucy whispered to Katie. “They remind me of my grandmother’s.”

Katie reached into her purse and pulled out a travel pack of tissues. “I brought these just in case. I don’t like them either. My nana died before I married Bill, and I cried like a baby.”

A rustle behind them drew their attention to the door. Neil entered the church with a woman on his arm. He must have borrowed a suit because the jacket and pants were too big for his tall, lanky frame, but he’d shaved and smoothed his long hair and tied it in a ponytail. He looked somewhat presentable.

But it was the woman he was escorting that captured Lucy’s interest.

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