Cups and Killers by Tess Rothery

Author:Tess Rothery
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

Karina Wyandotte paced the hall at the Bible Creek Care Home. Her errands had been run and the place was still on a sort of modified lockdown. The phones weren’t ringing, and there was nothing to do but stew in her frustration at ruined plans. She had an ally in Joey Burke, an ally to annoy the crap out of Taylor Quinn. But Joey wasn’t a very impressive ally. She’d had a simple job and biffed it.

But maybe it wasn’t Joey’s fault. Maybe the trick to getting between Hudson and Taylor wasn’t in romance.

She smiled to herself and transferred the desk phone to her cell.

If Hudson loved anyone in this world, it was his Grandpa Boggy. And if Boggy loved anything at all, it was lots of attention from girls who flirted. From the elderly Mrs. Sylvester, who could have been his mother, to the high schoolers who bussed tables in the dining room, if Boggy could get a giggle or a blush out of a female, he was a happy man

Karina sauntered down to Boggy’s room. Today all she had to do was make a bored old man happy. In the long run, she could slowly but surely poison him against Taylor Quinn.

If Boggy didn’t like Taylor, Hudson would give up on his single-minded pursuit.

Sure, it didn’t mean she’d get him back. But she was past that. If she couldn’t have him, neither could Taylor. That was all that really mattered.

Boggy didn’t answer on the first knock. For a second, Karina felt fear. It surprised her. She knocked louder and hollered his name. After what felt like forever but was probably just a couple of minutes, the door opened.

“Well!” Boggy looked pleased. “If I’d known you were coming over, I wouldn’t have fallen asleep. What kind of trouble can I get you in?”

“I just thought I’d pop over and say hi. With the dining room closed, I don’t get to see anyone.”

“Come in, come in. I’ve got coffee on.”

She came in, happy with her success, happy that Boggy wasn’t dead. Just happy in general.

He poured her a mug of strong black coffee and settled himself in a recliner. “Did you abandon post this morning or is someone doing all your hard work?”

Karina waved her phone. “I abandoned it. But the calls will come to me if anyone calls.”

“You know, kiddo, I always did like you. You’re both clever and lazy, like me.” He grinned.

She knew he meant it as a compliment, but she stiffened. Clever and lazy were too on point.

“This is just a social visit, but if you have any thoughts you’d like to share about how we’ve been handling the, um…”

“Imprisonment of free people?” He lifted an eyebrow.

“Ah.”

“This is ridiculous. Open the dining room. Open the rec facilities. We pay good money to live here and can’t use any of our stuff.”

“At the same time,” Karina remembered the surprising fear that something had happened to Boggy while she waited for him to answer the door, “we’ve had two murders.

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