Tea Leaves, Jealousy, and Murder by Jenna St James

Author:Jenna St James [James, Jenna St]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

By the time the men all left for Hopkins’ shooting range, it was almost six o’clock. I’d just finished setting out the champagne flutes for the cotton candy drink when my cell phone rang. I didn’t recognize the number.

“Hello?”

“Jaycee? This is Danita from Joy’s Party Rentals.”

“Oh, hi. I didn’t recognize your number.”

“I’m not calling from the shop,” Danita said. “We closed at five tonight. It’s just too much trying to juggle everything right now, and we were slow.”

“Of course,” I said. “I totally understand.”

“Sounds like you’re having a party,” Danita said.

“Tillie’s bachelorette party is tonight.”

“Oh, that’s right. I remember you saying something about that today when you stopped by earlier.”

There was an awkward silence.

“So what can I do for you, Danita?”

Danita chuckled. “It’s actually what I can do for you. I found a cotton candy machine in Santa Rosa you can rent.”

“That’s fantastic!” I exclaimed.

“The company said I could have it on Saturday. So if you want, I can drive over and get it and deliver it to the wedding venue for you.”

“Oh, Danita, you’re a lifesaver. That would be great.”

I reminded her of the venue address and had just said goodbye when I heard a man’s voice in the background. Instead of ending the call, I waited to see what I could hear before the call automatically disconnected.

“Red or white?” the man asked.

The phone disconnected before I heard Danita’s reply. But that was okay…it was enough time for me to recognize the man’s voice.

“Psst.” I motioned Jax over.

“What?”

“I just got off the phone with Danita,” I whispered. “She was calling from her house. She said she could get us a cotton candy machine for the wedding.”

“Great. Why are you whispering about that?”

“Shh.” I leaned in close. “Before she could hang up, I heard Samuel’s voice in the background asking her if she wanted red or white.”

Jax blinked. “Like wine? Like they were having a romantic dinner?”

She couldn’t keep the excitement out of her voice, and I smiled knowingly. I wasn’t the only one who loved to investigate, but with the recent opening of her store, it was harder and harder for Jax to sleuth with me.

“Sounded that way,” I said. “Should we go make a run real quick and see?”

Jax bit her lip and glanced over to where Mom was helping Tillie put a BRIDE sash on over her colorful bohemian dress. “Mom will kill us if she finds out we’ve left the party to go snoop on possible murder suspects. This is Tillie’s big night.”

“Danita lives in town,” I said. “We can—”

“How do you know she lives in town?” Jax interrupted.

“Duh, because this morning I already scoped her out on Google to find her current address.”

“It freaks me out sometimes how well you do that,” Jax said.

I grinned. “So like I said, we go snoop it out real quick, see what we can see. Then we come back here and no one suspects a thing.”

Jax snorted and slid another surreptitious look at Mom. “If you can make it to where she won’t kill us, I’ll go with you.

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