Sconed to Death by Tegan Maher

Author:Tegan Maher [Maher, Tegan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tegan Maher
Published: 2019-10-12T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

WITHIN AN HOUR, I HAD a menu designed and a grocery list made. Dee already had the first two cakes in the oven and was busy piping out a kazillion different sized blue roses. I'd caught her up on the case and also told her about the harrowing ordeal at Buns while we'd been brainstorming the menu.

"That was just mean," she said, barely smothering a smile when I told her how Nikki had abandoned me to the old vultures. "But it sounds like you held your own."

I snorted. "Barely. Another three minutes, and I'm pretty sure they'd have jumped on me, talons out and ready to tear me to pieces if I didn't give up the goods."

The icing bag in her hand made an empty squelching noise and she growled. "I'm out of confectioners sugar again." She shook her hand to loosen it, then pulled a near-empty bowl of icing from the fridge and stuffed the remainder into the bag.

"This is all the icing I have left. I need a break anyway, or else I'll be the one with hooked talons. You said you were going to Walmart?"

"Yeah," I said, nodding. "I was just on my way out. I figure if I get everything today, I can spend most of tomorrow cooking. I'll still have some little stuff to do Sunday morning, but the wedding's not until two. I'll have plenty of time."

"I'll go with you, then," she said, arching her back in a stretch. "I need to step away from this for a minute, anyway. My whole body is starting to ache and my eyes are crossing."

I laughed as the oven timer went off. "I think that's your cue to take an hour off and go with me. You looked like you were at a good stopping point, anyway."

She pulled the cakes out of the oven and slid them onto the counter, then rushed upstairs to change.

While I was waiting, I double-checked my list and added a couple more things.

"Ready?" she asked a few minutes later.

"I think so, though I'm sure I'll forget something."

She pulled the flower nails from the center of the cake and unwrapped the wet towels from around them, then flipped them onto the cooling rack. "Let's go, then. I wanna stop and get a latte on our way."

We ironed out some more details on the way and also ordered a half-dozen large pizzas to pick up on the way home.

Once we made it to Walmart, it didn't take us any time at all to get what we needed. We were both in-an-outters when it came to shopping; neither of us were ones to take forever in the grocery store.

While we were checking out, I noticed a clerk eyeballing me.

"Hang on a sec," I said to Dee, holding a finger up while I kept the clerk in my line of sight. I followed her down the canned veggies section, where she stopped and began arranging cans.

"Excuse me," I said as I approached her. "But I couldn't help but notice you staring at me.

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