Relish (The Cass Chronicles Book 2) by Susannah Shannon

Author:Susannah Shannon [Shannon, Susannah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blushing Books Publications
Published: 2016-03-28T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7 - Accounted For

Cass knocked on the door of Lloyd's cottage. She had an armload of fresh towels. When she did not receive an answer, she opened the door. She wasn't sure where he could be, maybe Killian had arranged for someone else to take him 'nonfishing' as her husband called it. The bathroom door was tightly closed. She hadn't thought those doors even had locks. The humidity could do funny things. She'd send Killian over to sort it out later. She set the towels on a chair and gave the place a quick once over. It was a dicey thing, this sort of housekeeping. She needed to make sure the lodge's guests felt looked after, and yet still felt that their privacy was respected. She had often thought this was easier for housekeepers of hotels where the guests were essentially anonymous. She needed to eat dinner with these people. She would have thought that Lloyd was a very tidy man. Apparently she had been wrong about that. The bed looked like a small bomb had gone off in it—blankets on the floor, pillows akimbo. Bending to pick them up she saw a 'Trench Outfitters' key ring on the floor. Hazel must have dropped her keys the last time she had tidied the cottage up. Since they so rarely locked anything, they wouldn't have been missed. There was a small pile of receipts and scraps of paper lying on the bureau. She'd come to recognize that as the sign of a man emptying his pockets. Since one man's trash was another man's treasure, she didn't toss those things. In the pile was a high quality business card—heavy cream cardstock. Her experience with wedding invitations meant that she recognized a home printing job when she saw one. This was not one.

"Lloyd Miller, CPA IRS Chief Auditor."

This gave her pause. She suddenly remembered the sharp interest Lloyd had taken when Travis had mentioned doing Hazel's taxes. Cass had no doubt that any loophole Travis had found was faulty, if not outright illegal. That explained why he came so often and never caught any fish. What he was trawling for did not have gills. She remembered the way Hazel seemed to smile at Lloyd when she thought no one was watching. Hazel had a crush on a man who was there to audit the lodge. Cass worked around the small telling pile of detritus. She was giving the bed a quick smooth over when the cell phone on the bedside table chirped. She knew better, she knew the unspoken rules that allowed for them to be friends with their paying guests. A sort of 'don't ask don't tell' policy. But Lloyd was not actually a guest, and since he was at the lodge snooping, he was most certainly not their friend. She looked at the phone. A small picture of a pretty young woman appeared on the screen and underneath it the text, "Hi, Dad. Mom is out of the hospital. I'm okay.

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