Signed, Sealed and Dead by Ridder Aspenson Carolyn

Author:Ridder Aspenson, Carolyn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carolyn Ridder Aspenson
Published: 2019-01-21T00:00:00+00:00

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I made a quick pit stop at Clarissa Mooney’s part time job, a local boutique called Gibson’s. She didn’t own the store, and I wasn’t sure she’d even be there, but it opened at ten o’clock, and it was just coming on that time, so I thought I’d stop by and see if she was there. I wanted to chat her up and get a feel for how she acted around me. Since we’d had limited engagement before, and it wasn’t all that great, but I hadn’t thought about the why behind it, I wanted to see how my approach to her impacted her attitude toward me. I figured she was as good of a place to start as any when it came to the lacrosse women. Plus, I wanted to get an update about the students in the lacrosse program and their grades, or anything she’d be willing to provide. If that was anything at all.

Thankfully, another woman flipped the closed sign to open as soon as I walked up to the door. She opened it for me with a hey, how you doing greeting, and let me in.

We chatted about nothing of substance for a bit, and I walked through the store pretending to shop, which ended up in actual shopping because Gibson’s had the most adorable, if not completely useless items. I picked a piece of wood art that said I like big mutts and I cannot lie, and a coffee cup for Belle that said, Best Freaking Friend Ever, and didn’t even notice when Clarissa walked out of the back room and said hello.

“Oh, hey, Clarissa.” I hadn’t expected to be caught off guard by the main reason I’d come to the boutique in the first place. “How’re you?”

“I’m just a wreck over this whole sports thing, Lily. Have you talked to that sheriff boyfriend of yours again? Has he fixed things for the program yet?”

The woman was nuttier than a fruit cake. One minute she was sweet as cherry pie, and the next minute she was sassy. She exhausted me. “Clarissa, this isn’t something the sheriff’s office can fix, you know that, don’t you? I mean, it’s a school issue. It’s not a legal one. The school wasn’t following the athletic association’s regulations, and there are consequences for that.”

“Yes, but surely your boyfriend can do something. He’s the sheriff.”

Bless her heart, she really wasn’t that bright. “What exactly do you expect him to do?”

She shuffled her feet, and I half expected her to say something snarky, but she didn’t. “It’s all just a big mess, isn’t it? And that Ginnie Slappey, she’s so stuck up, she’d drown in a rainstorm. Making me do things no secretary in her right mind would ever do. Should ever do, really. Heavens, if I had a mind to, I’d report her to the association myself. I’m telling you, she’s like a slave driver at times. Do this, Clarissa. Do that, Clarissa. And now that poor Coach Trammell is dead, why, she’s just a hot mess.

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