Pawdon the Pun by Corrine Winters

Author:Corrine Winters [Winters, Corrine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-03-23T16:00:00+00:00

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That evening, Tamara, Oona, and Emily joined Lilith at her place for some Chinese food and just to hang out. The other women were great to hang out with, but once in a while, it was nice to just have the four of them together, like old times.

“How is your murder investigation going?” Oona asked. “I kind of miss doing the investigations with you. That was a lot of fun.”

“It was fun to have you as my partner in crime,” Lilith said. “Right now, though, you would have a hard time waddling out of trouble if it came up.”

“True. The baby is getting very big,” Oona said. “Plus, I wouldn’t be very stealthy. I dropped a piece of mail on the floor and it took me about twenty minutes just to kneel down and stand back up. I’m like a pregnant penguin on ice.”

Everyone laughed at the imagery that Oona created.

“One of the many hidden joys of pregnancy,” Lilith said. “Speaking of which, I brought your fried pickles to go with the Chinese food.”

“Fried pickles?” Emily asked. “That sounds completely disgusting.”

“I thought so too, until about a month ago. However, the baby seems to have acquired a taste for them,” Oona said.

Emily made a face and then said, “I will have to teach the baby a thing or two after he or she shows up. When are you going to tell us the gender?”

“Please don’t get the baby hooked on salted caramel lattes like you did the cats,” Oona said. “We’ve decided to wait for the baby to be born before we know the gender. We have names picked out either way, so we will be happy, as long as the baby is healthy.”

“I noticed that the nursery is all neutral colors and everything on the baby registry is neutral,” Tamara said.

“So back to my question, how is the investigation going?” Oona asked.

“Frustrating. The narrative for Julia is that no one liked her and practically everyone had a reason to be happy that she was dead,” Lilith said.

“And for Aaron?” Tamara asked.

“Everyone loved him and no one had a reason to want him dead,” Lilith said.

“There’s a connection somewhere,” Emily said. “They had a common enemy.”

“You are right,” Lilith said. “The question is, who? Josiah and I did manage to eliminate one of the suspects. The problem is that there are so many left.”

“You’ll figure it out,” Oona said. “Oof.”

“Why oof?” Lilith asked, alarmed.

Oona lifted up her shirt just a little bit. The women watched in fascination as tiny feet seemed to walk across the inside of Oona’s belly. Then, one of the feet pulled back and then kicked hard.

“He’s going to be a soccer player,” Lilith said.

“Tell me about it,” Oona said. “I’m getting all beat up from the inside out.”

The women spent the rest of the evening relaxing and just talking, with the cats making their comments every now and then. Lilith was happy. For just a few hours, it was just like old times, before murder first entered Lilith’s life when she found the body of a murder victim on the side of Cowboy Mountain.

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