Suspicion and Shamrocks by Madelyn Scott

Author:Madelyn Scott [Madelyn Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bad Baby Press
Published: 2023-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

After lunch, when I dropped off Millie, we went inside to checked on the dogs. Ollie was sleeping upside down, all four feet in the air, at the end of her couch and didn’t twitch a muscle. I tiptoed through to the bathroom, hoping to leave him snoozing, but as soon as I came out, he sat just outside the doorway, staring at me, tail wagging.

With a sigh, I clipped on his leash and took him home. Once there, we went across to the grooming building where Darla sat flipping the pages of a magazine at the small desk in the lobby.

“No groomings today, huh?” I hate to be Obvious Girl, but it slipped out.

She glanced at me over the rim of the magazine and gave her head a little shake that made her smooth bob sway like a supermodel at a beachy photo shoot. “There’s a bath and blow dry coming in a little while, and we have a few nail trims later on, but it’s a very light schedule today.”

“Again,” I muttered, frowning as I unclipped Ollie and allowed him to go sniff around the lobby.

If Darla was right that Sean’s murder was responsible for the slow business, then Libby’s death would only make that worse. The deaths needed to get solved quickly. Being so slow was going to add to our money problems.

Appearing to read my mind, Darla set her magazine aside. “You know, one way to drum up clients is to make friends with people in similar businesses. You know—network. It improves the power of everyone’s marketing.” She drummed her manicured fingertips on the closed magazine. “But you’d have to be nice. People around here don’t go for that New York-y attitude.”

“What attitude?” I scowled.

She waggled a forefinger up and down in the air between us. “That one.”

“I do not have an attitude.” I crossed my arms and popped a hip.

Darla rolled her eyes. “How about we give being nice a try? You can practice, and I can help you take the edge off the worst of your annoying habits that are going to rub folks the wrong way.”

“Wow. Talk about not being nice. You’re full of compliments for me today, huh?” It felt too early for this kind of grilling.

Ollie sat at my feet and followed our conversation by bouncing his head back and forth as each of us spoke. I ignored him.

Darla waved a hand, stood, and perched on the edge of the desk. “Pretend I’m someone from a complementary business who you’re making friends with.” She rolled her wrist in a go ahead motion.

“Pretend? You mean like role-play? I’m not doing that.”

“Oh, okay. Fine. That’s totally understandable. We’ll just keep floundering until this place goes under. Yeah, when you get to the pearly gates, you can explain to your aunt Eliza why you were only able to keep her business afloat for three months after her death. I’m sure she’ll understand you running her baby into the ground.”

I scowled harder. “You can’t get me to play pretend with you by bringing up Aunt Eliza.

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