Delphiniums and Deception: Mystery (Diana Flowers Floriculture Mysteries Book 2) by Ruby Loren

Delphiniums and Deception: Mystery (Diana Flowers Floriculture Mysteries Book 2) by Ruby Loren

Author:Ruby Loren [Loren, Ruby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-19T16:00:00+00:00


8

Close Encounters of the Seventh Kind

“I declare that this challenge is impossible!” a red and sweaty-faced Eamon announced half an hour into our first task of the afternoon. I hated to quit on anything in life - I now understood that it was the main reason I had dedicated so long to both chemistry and my old relationship - but in this instance, I was starting to lean toward’s Eamon’s view.

The challenge had seemed fairly simple at first glance. It was a virtual challenge in which you had to place the flowers displayed on the screen in vases that corresponded with the month of the year they were most commonly available. The problem was, some flowers had a flowering span of several months, some of them even had a second flush, and there was quite a lot of debate over which months which plants and flowers were available. The challenge would only be finished when everything was in the place it should be. The course designer had known what a fiend they were being and had included percentages below the months that told us how close the displays were to being correct, but that didn’t always help. To make matters even worse, we’d been given ten lives… and we’d already lost three of them.

“What happens when we run out of lives? How bad do you think it will be?” Bella fretted, tugging on her dishevelled ponytail. Everyone’s appearance had suffered somewhat from the terrible start to the morning and then the stress of the following challenges.

“Who knows?” Rich said with a casual shrug. “I didn’t even want to be here,” he added in a lower tone.

I silently raised my eyes to the heavens. This course did rely quite heavily on the shared knowledge of those taking it and their willingness to work as a team. It was strange, but I did think that I was picking up a few tips. Were it not for the murder, it might even have been fun. However, the ambiguity of the punishments for when we got things wrong were starting to get on my nerves. Worrying about an unknown meant that everyone was overcautious in their choices, and whenever someone got something wrong, there was definitely a feeling of the group blaming them.

I also suspected that the course designer had taken into account each and every person who was attending - as the earlier poison challenge had demonstrated - and was relying on them sharing their skills with others. What the designer hadn’t accounted for was that we would be losing one of our number - and the one we’d lost might have known more about seasonal flowers than the rest of us put together. Christine had excelled at designing gardens throughout the year. Gardens that had to look their best at very specific times of the year. While she might not be an expert flower arranger, she would certainly have known which flowers cropped up at which point during the calendar.

Rich came and stood next to me, running a hand through his messily styled hair.



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