Red, White, and Blue Murder by Kathleen Suzette

Author:Kathleen Suzette
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-06-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“Allie, these cherry cobblers look wonderful,” Lucy said as she helped me carry the pies and cobblers into the kitchen at Henry’s.

“Thanks, Lucy,” I said and set the last cobbler down on the counter. I turned and saw Charles Allen standing in front of the stove flipping eggs with a spatula. He was watching me and I smiled at him. He rolled his eyes and looked away. Charles didn’t like me.

“Did Thad and Sarah get to the airport all right today?” Lucy asked as we headed out to the dining room at Henry’s.

“Yes, they’re gone and I miss them already.”

“You poor thing. Maybe they’ll get to come back soon and spend some time with you.”

I nodded, but I knew the truth. It would be months before that happened. We sat down at a booth and picked up a menu from the corner of the table and looked it over. I had promised Lucy I would buy her breakfast.

“I think I’m going to get an omelet today,” I said.

“Are you? I’ve been thinking about pancakes,” she said, looking the menu over. “I ran into Dave Jones at the grocery store yesterday. I asked him how he was and it took all I had not to ask him about Anita Towers. You’d be proud of me though, I didn’t say a word.”

I had filled her in on everything I knew about the murder case and she knew I thought that Dave and Anita had been seeing each other.

“Just hearing that makes me proud of you,” I said. “I think I’m going with the vegetarian omelet. I haven’t been getting enough vegetables lately.”

“I’m going to go with the tall stack of pancakes. Don’t judge, I haven’t had pancakes in forever.” I grinned but didn’t say a word and set the menu down on the edge of the table. When the waitress came by, we gave her our orders and I took a sip of my glass of water. And then I spotted someone across the room. “Lucy, look over there.” I made a motion with my head in the direction I was looking.

She followed my gaze and her eyes went wide. She turned back to me. “What do you know?”

I nodded. “I’d like to know what he knows,” I said. Sitting on the other side of the room, digging into a huge banana split was Anita’s son, Mike.

“It’s a little early for ice cream.” She laid her menu on top of mine.

“Why don’t we go over and say hello?”

She nodded. We both got up and went over to his table. “Hello, Mike,” I said. “That banana split sure looks good.”

He looked up at me and narrowed his eyes. “Do I know you?”

I chuckled and sat down in the booth across from him without being invited and Lucy scooted in next to me. “What’s the matter with you? We met at your Aunt Julie’s house. I’m Allie McSwain, and this is Lucy Gray,” I said, holding my hand out to shake.

He stared at me and didn’t make a move to shake my hand.

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