Death by Chocolate Malted Milkshake by Sarah Graves

Author:Sarah Graves
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2018-11-13T16:00:00+00:00

Six

“So how was Andy Devine supposed to have gotten the poison into Toby Moran’s milkshake, anyway?” Carrie Allen wanted to know.

The fish was wonderful, the cole slaw divine. I’d washed it all down with another Cherry Coke and a slice of the New Friendly’s famous chocolate-raspberry pie, which if the restaurant hadn’t already been making it, The Chocolate Moose would have done so, it was that good.

Then Carrie had walked over to our table and sat down without any invitation. I’d glanced over at her once or twice while we were eating—Ellie had a tuna melt plus half my French fries, and that worked out well since otherwise I wouldn’t have had room for pie—but not that often.

Still, I guessed she was touchy about being watched, and when she sat with us and ordered her own cup of coffee, we found out why.

“No idea,” I said in answer to her question. “We don’t know how the killer got the milkshake and cup from our shop at all, much less got the poison into it and got Toby Moran to drink it.”

“If someone did,” Ellie put in. “The autopsy report’s not out yet. So the truth is that we still don’t know what really happened.”

“Seems like Moran knew how to make trouble for a lot of people, though,” I said. “Was he like that with you?”

I knew he had been. At close range, her nose deformity was worse than I’d thought. But I wanted her to say it, and she did.

“Yeah, he stalked me.” Her voice hardened with rancor. “He called me, he followed me, he harassed me on social media. I basically had to give up being online completely, which was hard because until then I did the Facebook page for the veterinarian’s office I work at.”

She took a breath. “But that wasn’t all. He showed up wherever I was and told lies about me, hung around my place late at night and scared the crap out of me, and generally made my life hell.”

Another breath. “And that was all after he hauled off and slugged me, on account of he’d lost his temper and wanted to punish me for the crime of breaking up with him in the first place,” she said.

She touched the crumpled place in the bridge of her nose with a careful fingertip.

“So I guess that’s the end of my modeling career. I still feel really self-conscious about it, in case you hadn’t noticed. Thanks a lot, Toby.”

“Oh, now,” Ellie jumped in consolingly. “You’ve always been gorgeous. Now you’re unusual looking and gorgeous,” she declared, “and that’s even better.”

Carrie looked pleased but unfooled. “That’s nice of you,” she allowed. “But even if it was true, it’s not what you wanted to talk about, is it? The fallout from my poor choice of romantic partners?”

Pretty and smart . . . I still didn’t understand how Moran reeled these excellent young women into his clutches. But I had a feeling Carrie was about to explain, or at least maybe give us enough more dots so that we could connect them ourselves.

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