Sweet Shop 10 - Three Sweets to the Wind by Wendy Meadows

Author:Wendy Meadows [Meadows, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B08LZYTRYR
Goodreads: 55816195
Publisher: Majestic Owl Publishing LLC
Published: 2021-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

11

David pulls up at my house the next morning. “How’s Gilly holding up?”

“Not very well. She’s barely coping, but she refuses to take any time off. She doesn’t want to be alone and her parents are busy, too. As long as she still thinks the candy store is the best place for her, I’m content to let her continue. I just hope she doesn’t burn herself out doing this.”

“She’s a grown woman. Don’t forget that,” he tells me. “She and Zack might be a lot younger than we are, but they are legally adults. I say let her handle it her own way. If that benefits you, so much the better.”

I let out a long sigh. “I know. I just wish I could make it easier for her. She’s so fragile right now.”

“You are making it easier for her,” he points out. “You’re giving her an outlet for her energies where she knows she’s safe and surrounded by people who care about her. What better gift could you give her?”

I shrug. “I don’t know. Maybe I could bring Angela back to life.”

He snorts. “Wouldn’t that be something?”

We ride in silence for a while before I speak up. “So where are we going?”

“We’re going to see what Kay does in her free time when she’s not making lame excuses to the Police.” He drives to her house and parks down the block. “No way could anyone be that perfect. She’s hiding something. I feel it.”

“She’s hiding kleptomaniac tendencies, if her criminal record proves anything,” I point out.

“A single incident does not a kleptomaniac make,” he counters. “She did it once that we know of.”

“She got caught once, you mean.”

“I’m not convinced she really was stealing money from Angela anyway,” he remarks.

“What else would she be doing taking a hundred dollars from the till? That sounds an awful lot like stealing money to me.”

“She was Angela’s employee,” he tells me. “She must have known about the video cameras. Whatever else she may be, she’s not that stupid.”

“So what are you saying? Are you saying she did it on purpose?”

“How do you explain it?” he counters. “How do you explain her taking money from the till when she knew for a certain fact that she would get busted? People with kleptomania or any long-term history of shoplifting or theft almost always have a rap sheet as long as my arm, going all the way back to childhood. They can’t control themselves. They see something they want and they take it and they almost always get caught. That’s not Kay. She must have had some other reason to take that money.”

“Like what?”

Instead of answering, he stiffens in his seat. “Oh, look. There she is. She’s going somewhere.”

The cottage door opens and Kay struts outside. She wears her hair in the same updo. She clips down the drive in a trim, tight business suit with matching heels. A heavy gold chain drapes around her neck and a glistening gold bangle decorates her wrist. She gets in the convertible and hits the road.

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