A Night's Tail by Sofie Kelly

Author:Sofie Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2019-09-02T16:00:00+00:00

chapter 8

I thought about texting Ethan or even calling him, but I decided not to. He was doing another song-writing workshop with a Boys and Girls Club in Red Wing and I didn’t want to disrupt that. And I wanted to see his face when I asked him what the heck he’d been thinking. I kept telling myself that he had to have had a good reason for not mentioning to Marcus or to me that he’d bought the muffins that had caused Lewis Wallace’s allergic reaction. I just couldn’t come up with one.

I ate the last of the lo mein for supper, grateful that Ethan had made lots of it. Owen kept me company while I washed the dishes, going through his own elaborate personal hygiene routine.

My thoughts kept going back to what I’d learned from Georgia. That’s all that I’d been able to think about since she’d stopped by the library. “Why did Ethan order those muffins and why didn’t he say anything?” I said, more to myself than to the cat. “And how did they get to the hotel?”

“Merow!” Owen said loudly.

I turned to find him eyeing me, one paw hovering in the air and what to me seemed like a confused expression in his golden eyes. At the same time Hercules came in from the porch, stopped halfway across the kitchen floor and looked from his brother to me. “Mrr,” he said as though he was asking what he’d just missed.

I gestured to his food and water dishes by the refrigerator. “You missed supper.”

He glanced over at his food but his gaze came back to Owen. They stared silently at each other in that way that once again made me think that they somehow had the ability to communicate without making a sound. Finally, Hercules looked at me and gave a soft murp while Owen went back to meticulously washing his face.

It really did seem as though Hercules had been asking what I’d been talking about and I knew it would help me sort out my thoughts as well as work out what I was going to say to my brother if I talked to the cats.

“Ethan bought those muffins,” I said. “He knew that Lewis Wallace had died from an allergic reaction. Marcus even said the man had eaten a peanut butter and banana muffin.”

I remembered how Ethan had started to cough and said it was because his coffee had gone down the wrong way.

I pointed a fork in the cats’ direction and drops of water spattered onto the floor. “The little weasel must have gotten them to the hotel somehow. They weren’t here in the house.”

Owen gave a very enthusiastic meow. “Yes, I know they’re your favorite,” I said, setting a bowl in the dish rack to drain. “That’s because they’re Maggie’s favorite.”

Hercules had come to sit beside me. The cats looked at each other again then they both fixed their kitty gazes on me. I felt as though I was missing something. Along

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