The Happy Housekeeper's Guide To Trouble (A Barbara Hollis Murder Mystery Book 8) by Blythe Baker

Author:Blythe Baker [Baker, Blythe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

9

In order to get into the department store, I needed a connection. I made my way back to the motel, going over possible people to reach out to that might still work there, and decided that I needed to take greater care in who I trusted. I knew I could trust Ned, and I knew I could trust Rebecca. Apart from them…I wasn’t sure. I couldn’t risk the entire operation on making the wrong phone call.

So, I called Rebecca to see if she could help me out.

“Oh, gosh, Barbara…” she said when she answered the phone. “I don’t know…”

“What about Tiffany?” I asked. “That girl who worked in shoes? You and she were pretty close, weren’t you? She didn’t know me – maybe she’d be – ”

“No, Barb, that’s not it…” she said, then I heard her sigh on the other line. “I’m not – good at lying.”

I laughed. “That’s what you’re worried about?”

“I’m going to have to lie, aren’t I?” she asked. “I’ll have to tell her all about this made up person that you are trying to be, and I’m going to mess it up somehow, I just know it.”

“No, no, it’s all right,” I said with another chuckle. “You don’t have to lie for me. All I want is for you to contact someone who probably won’t ask too many questions, and say, ‘I have a friend who is looking for a temporary job. She needs to start right away. Do you think you could help?’ All that is true! I do need your help, and I do need a job! If I could skip over some of the background stuff to get hired quickly, that might save me from anyone finding out my real identity. Or at least, it might put that off long enough for me to do what I need.”

“Okay,” Rebecca said with somewhat less reservation. “I think I could do that. You said Tiffany? I haven’t talked to her in a long time…”

“Does she still work there?” I asked.

“I think so,” Rebecca said.

“I don’t want to put you out, but this really might be my only possible avenue at the moment,” I said. “I need some way to get into the store, and getting hired would get me the closest.”

“All right,” she said. “I’ll see what I can do.”

“Thank you!” I exclaimed.

Her return call came more rapidly than I would have expected. Immediately, I heard the relief in Rebecca’s voice. “She said she thinks that she can help you,” she said. “I asked if it was okay if you gave her a call at home, and she said she’d be happy to talk to you. I hope that’s all right.”

“That’s perfect!” I said. I’d been rehearsing and jotting down ideas for my pretend life while I waited. “Thanks so much, Rebecca.”

“You’re welcome,” she said. “She actually seemed relieved that there are people interested in working there. Apparently, there have been quite a few people who have left the company in the past months.”

“That’s odd,” I said, brow furrowing.

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