Revenge Is Sweet (Vintage Sweets Mysteries Book 1) by Kaye George

Author:Kaye George [George, Kaye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lyrical Press
Published: 2020-03-09T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Yolanda glanced up from the basket she was finishing for a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary celebration. She was proud of the shiny silver bows and the glittery sprayed roses adorning the beautiful basket that was filled with silver-wrapped candies, with an engraved picture frame and a small wall mirror poking up in the back. For this one, she had fastened five silver bells onto pipe-cleaner stalks and had them sticking up in front of the mirror.

Tally walked in the front door. Yolanda greeted her with a smile. “I have a box waiting at the post office, and it might be our plastic candy.” She pulled curls onto the ends of the ribbons and considered the basket finished.

“That’s gorgeous,” Tally said. “You’ve outdone yourself with it.”

“Thanks for coming up with the idea of wrapping your fudge pieces in silver paper. They’ll love them. What’s up?”

Tally leaned her elbows on Yolanda’s counter with a dejected look. “It’s Cole. He was questioned yesterday at the police station.”

“Questioned? What about?”

“Mart’s murder.”

Yolanda let her scissors clatter to the countertop. “Oh no. How could that be?”

“It can’t. He didn’t kill her. But I said I’d try to get him a good lawyer.”

“You want Lackey Three, then. Right?” That was what a lot of people called Larimer Lackey III, but never to his face. He was pompous, self-important, and seemed to have a low tolerance for remarks about his name.

“Yes, Lackey. Doesn’t a classmate of ours work for him?”

“Oh, yes, his secretary. Nicole.”

“All I could think of was Ubermeister.”

Yolanda laughed. “Oberlander. That’s her last name.”

“That’s it!” Tally brightened a bit. “Do you have a lawyer, Yo?”

“I haven’t gotten one yet. My father wants me to, but I was afraid that would make me look more guilty. Maybe I should.”

“I’ll call his office and see if I can have lunch or coffee or something with Nicole.”

“I’ll go with you if you want me to. She goes to our church.” She reached to put the scissors on the shelf where the ribbon spools were. “I suppose I should hire him, too.”

“Thanks, Yo. I hope she can help my brother. And you.”

The three women met at one of the vineyard tasting rooms on Main Street shortly after seven o’clock. Nicole had told Yolanda she was off at five, but could meet them at that later time, after Tally and Yolanda closed up.

Nicole and Tally caught up a bit on mutual high-school classmates, then Yolanda steered the conversation to their purpose.

She picked up her glass of semi-dry red and swirled it, admiring the color and, soon after, the taste. When she set it down, she started. “Tally’s brother has a problem I was hoping you could help him with.”

“Is he younger than you? I’m pretty sure I remember both of you,” Nicole said to Tally.

“We both went through high school here before we moved away.”

“I remember he collected strange pets. Bugs and lizards and things.”

Tally laughed. “He thought he was rescuing them.”

“What does he need an attorney for? What’s he done?”

“He hasn’t done anything.

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