The Bound Legacy by E. G. Bateman & Michael Anderle

Author:E. G. Bateman & Michael Anderle [Bateman, E. G. & Anderle, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2020-09-15T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Betsy watched the young woman, who gazed at the ring. It sat under an upturned glass in the middle of the table. “Are you thinking of taking it for a spin?”

Lexi looked at her with an eyebrow raised. “Would you recommend it?”

The old woman sighed and pushed down a wave of nausea. “I don’t remember a thing about it. I think I’m quite happy about that.”

“I wonder if Amy will remember anything.” She looked curiously at the ring once more.

Betsy thought about what Amy had done to her young beau. “I hope not. Will you take the ring to the museum?” She opened the oven, removed the cookies, and put them down beside the other piles of cookies, brownies, and cupcakes that filled almost every surface in the apartment.

“We’ll get Joseph to exorcize the spirit first. That is a disaster waiting to happen—again. In the meantime, we’ll see where this leads us.” Lexi took the key from her vest pocket and put it on the table.

The old woman gave her a plate of cookies and patted her cheek before she walked out of the kitchen. “I hope you get your answers, dear.”

The door opened to admit Scott and Dick. The young man made a beeline for the cookies on the counter with Betsy behind him. When he reached out, she smacked his hand away. “These are for the detective.”

His shoulders slumped. “Again? Won’t you make any for me?”

The woman stepped closer to the counter but turned to face him. “Scott dear, I promise. Whenever I stab you, you’ll get cookies too.”

“Well, when will that be? Because I want a cookie.” He stepped closer to a tray.

“Sooner than you think if you steal one of the detective’s cookies.”

Scott continued to whine. “But he’s not even here.”

“He needed to see his wife. And maybe get away from me. But he’ll be back and when he is, he’ll have these waiting for him.” She looked at everything she’d made. Baking relaxed her and she dearly needed something to keep her busy.

Dick gazed at the stacks of baked goods. “Nothing says ‘Sorry I stabbed you’ like a double chocolate chip cookie.”

The sorcerer pointed at him. “You stabbed Dick. Why don’t you make him cookies and I’ll have them?”

The vampire pinched the bridge of his nose. “Don’t get her started again. She’s chased me around offering her neck for the last two hours. It’s positively indecent.”

Betsy twisted the corner of her apron. “I hate that you have the memory of me attacking you with a letter opener. I don’t know how you can bear to look at me.”

“And you think chasing me with your neck out will traumatize me less?” He rolled his eyes.

Lexi broke a cookie in half and ate it while she looked directly at Scott and made “mmmm” sounds.

A whine filled the air and the old woman looked at the puppy. “What’s wrong, Marcel?”

“That was Scott.” Lexi chuckled.

Betsy looked at him as he sighed pathetically over a pile of the delicious-smelling baked goods.

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