Rolling in the Dough by Emma Ainsley

Author:Emma Ainsley [Ainsley, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Summer Prescott Books
Published: 2023-03-28T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

By the time she made it home, Maggie was yawning every couple of minutes. Despite her coffee intake, she was ready for a long nap. She unlocked the door and made her way inside the house, heading straight for her newly remodeled master bathroom. She changed into comfortable clothes, then drew the blinds and crawled back into bed, falling asleep right away.

Brett woke her a couple of hours later with a phone call. She answered groggily. “Hello?”

“Maggie? Are you at home?”

“Yeah,” she said and threw the covers back. “What’s going on?”

“Are you in bed? I’m sorry I woke you,” he said. “I thought you were going in to see Orson.”

“I did, and I stopped by the donut shop there, too,” she said.

“You never called me,” Brett said. “How is Orson?”

“He has had some weakness and his voice is a little off,” she said. “His hand looks pretty twisted, too, but he has been on his feet.”

“Is he, you know, himself?”

Maggie chuckled. “Oh, he is very much himself,” she said. “I caught him pretending to be asleep when Myra was fawning over him a little bit.”

“Sounds like Orson,” Brett said.

“He asked me to do something for him when we were leaving, though,” Maggie said.

“What did he ask you to do?”

“He asked me not to let them take control of his life,” she said. “I’m assuming he meant Toby and Kara.”

“So, he hasn’t been told about Kara?” Brett said.

“I didn’t tell him,” Maggie said. “Neither did Myra. I don’t think anyone else has said anything, either”

“I should stop by and visit with him on my break today,” Brett said. “I’ll shoot Myra and Brooks a call first, but he needs to be told before he hears it from someone else.”

“I agree,” Maggie said. “Especially if Toby has been charged with her murder.”

“He hasn’t been charged,” Brett said. “Not yet anyway. We just don’t have enough evidence. We do have the description of a vehicle, but Toby was not proven to have been involved. He might have been there, but we have no way to know right now if he was the one behind the wheel or not.”

“Do you think he’s going to try to go see Orson in the hospital? I don’t think that would be good for him,” Maggie said.

“I told him to stay away from Orson, but there is no law saying that he can’t go into the hospital,” Brett said.

Maggie sat on the edge of her bed. “Orson insists he never took a DNA test. Not once. How in the world would Toby Hawley presume that he is his son?

“First off, Hawley is not his legal name. It’s Garrett,” Brett said. “As for the rest of it, I have no idea. I know Orson knew the man’s mother, but that certainly doesn’t prove anything.”

“Right, because it isn’t like he carries anything around with him to prove that Orson is his biological father,” Maggie said.

“I suppose Orson could demand that Toby take a new DNA test to establish whether or not he is the father,” Brett said.

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