A Sinful Mistake by Caroline Mickelson

Author:Caroline Mickelson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: small town cozy mystery, female sleuth, senior citizen sleuth, funny cozy mystery, humorous mystery
Publisher: J&R Fan Fiction
Published: 2018-08-16T00:00:00+00:00

“TELL ME HOW YOUR DAY was, darlin’.”

The warm rumble of Kase’s voice should have made me feel cocooned and safe. Instead, my end of our conversation felt like a tightrope walk between two very tall buildings, sans a safety net. “Oh, you know, just another typical day in Sinful,” I hedged.

He laughed. “That could involve anything from machetes to a boxing match.”

“Hmmm,” was all I said.

“Okay, let me make a few guesses. Did your day involve any high-speed chases?”

I pictured Fortune’s Jeep tearing up the road between Mudbug and Sinful. But even though she’d been driving a good thirty miles above the speed limit, no one had been technically chasing us. “Sorry, that’s a no.”

“You have a conversation with any interesting characters?”

“I wouldn’t say interesting exactly.” There’d been the bartender at Spanky’s, not to mention the whole rodent sighting discussion with the Bayou Gardens manager, but those were technically more bizarre than interesting. “Fortune and I chatted with Carter and Walter at the general store but that’s about it.”

Kase observed a moment of silence. Not a comfortable silence either. Did he know me so well that he knew I was lying?

“How was your day?” I decided to flip the question on him. As an FBI agent, surely, he’d have done something interesting.

“Nothing that I’m free to talk about, you know that, darlin’.”

An awkward quiet filled the air space between us. I was curled up in a chair in my bedroom at Aunt Ida Belle’s, dressed and ready for our visit to see Big and Little. Anxiety gnawed at my nerves like a little mouse with a hunk of cheese. I understood Fortune’s directive not to confide in Kase about what we’d found out, but she didn’t know what she asked of me. Silence and I weren’t comfortable for long periods of time.

“How are Ida Belle and Gertie doing?” Kase asked.

Now, you would think this would be a simple, straight up question that I would be grateful to hear but it wasn’t. How to introduce the topic of Bayou Gardens? Kase was likely to be as suspicious as Carter and Walter had been. My best bet was to say as little as possible. “They’re both going to be fine. In time, and with plenty of rest.”

“They there with you now?”

Something in his tone of voice warned me that he knew about their new living arrangements. Which meant I shouldn’t lie, at least not about this. I never knew how exhausting it was to be duplicitous.

“No, actually, they’ll be staying for a short while in a convalescent facility.” Before he could pepper me with questions, I launched into a whole song and dance about how this was the best thing for them. I was out of breath by the end of my spiel, but I think I’d managed to convey that everything here in Sinful was normal. Well, as normal as things ever were in Sinful.

“Stephanie,” Kase surprised me by using my Christian name instead of his pet name for me. “Whatever you and Fortune are up to, you’d better be careful.

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