Sugar, Spice, and Murder: A Pumpkin Hollow Mystery by Kathleen Suzette

Author:Kathleen Suzette [Suzette, Kathleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

The next day Christy and I decided that we desperately needed a coffee, so we headed over to the Little Coffee Shop of Horrors. My best friend Amanda and her husband Brian owned the coffee shop, and we made regular stops there every week. She had the best scones and biscotti around and the best coffee, so how could we not stop in regularly?

I pushed open the shop door and inhaled the smell of freshly brewed coffee. It was one of my favorite scents in the entire world. Amanda looked up at us from where she stood behind the counter and grinned.

“Hi girls,” she said as she finished making a coffee for the customer at the front counter. Her husband rang up the order, and we went around to the side of the counter. “What are you two up to today?” Amanda was dressed as a princess today.

“We are in dire need of some coffee,” I said, grinning. I was dressed as a gypsy, and Christy had worn a pirate costume.

She chuckled. “Well, you came to the right place, then. What can I get for you?”

I glanced up at the chalkboard behind her. “I think I’d like a vanilla mummy latte.”

“I’d like a vampire’s kiss,” Christy said, leaning on the counter next to me. “I can’t wait until it’s pumpkin spice season. I’m surprised it’s not on the menu board for Pumpkin Hollow days.”

She shrugged. “Brian and I discussed making it for Pumpkin Hollow Days, but we decided to hold off until the Halloween season. Maybe we should go ahead and do it, though. It seems like everyone loves it.” She got to work on our coffees.

“You may as well wait. Pumpkin Hollow Days will be over before you know it,” Christy said.

“Where’s the baby princess?” I asked her. Amanda and Brian’s baby was a year old now, and she was usually strapped into a baby carrier on either Amanda’s or Brian’s person.

She sighed. “She’s walking. She doesn’t want to stay in the baby carrier anymore, and I don’t think it’s safe letting her run around the coffee shop, so my cousin is watching her.”

I gasped. “She’s walking? When did this happen? Why didn’t you call me? I can’t believe she’s walking.”

Amanda chuckled as she worked on our coffees. “It happened suddenly. I swear she was showing absolutely no interest in it at all, and then all of a sudden, she pulled herself up and she took a few steps. From there it was history.”

Christy shook her head. “I can’t believe our little girl is growing up so fast. What are we going to do? She’s going to end up going to school pretty soon.”

Amanda laughed. “Let’s not rush things. I’m sure we’ll put her into preschool, but that won’t be for at least another couple of years.”

I sighed. Where had the time gone? It seemed like I was just holding that tiny little newborn in my arms yesterday, and now she was walking? I couldn’t believe it.

We glanced at the door as Mike Vogel walked through it.

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