Double Trouble by Gretchen Archer

Double Trouble by Gretchen Archer

Author:Gretchen Archer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cozy mysteries;cozy mystery series;funny;humorous mysteries;women sleuths
Publisher: Henery Press
Published: 2020-04-20T17:12:54+00:00


TEN

“Davis, when are you going to buy a car? Would you please buy a car? Who, in this day and age, doesn’t own a car?”

Fantasy and I were on our way to Valet to do something we shouldn’t have. After ignoring a baker’s dozen text messages from Colleen in Bradley’s office—six about Lost and Found, five about my ex-ex-mother-in-law, who shouldn’t have even been there, another saying considering the scented circumstances at my home she’d been made aware of, she could possibly move us to a single hotel room with two double beds on the fourth floor, but Housekeeping couldn’t have it ready for at least an hour, plus a bonus text message in all caps that dinged in as I was reading the last one, the final one about the inoperable ovens at Danish—I was on the phone with July explaining that there’d been a mishap at my home. I told her I was trying my hardest to locate Baby Oliver’s mother (not exactly true, because securing Elvis costumes wouldn’t necessarily help find Megan Shaw, but all the alerts and alarms I had set up could, so technically, I was working hard to find her), and I couldn’t get home because I had an errand to run. If I didn’t run the errand, I wouldn’t be able to work the Double Trouble banquet that night. If I couldn’t work the banquet, Baylor wouldn’t be able to sleep. (Preying on her emotions.) I asked July if she could possibly pick up Bex, Quinn, Baby Oliver, and Candy, who was, according to my mother, two interesting whiff the sneeze calf (a sneezing cat, who, given the new fertilizer circumstances, I’d totally lost interest in) and keep everyone at her condo until she heard back from me. July said she’d do her best. She knew about the Black Kow accident because she’d stopped by my home a half hour earlier to check on Baby Oliver. Initially, she’d hustled Bex, Quinn, Baby Oliver, Candy, Birdy, and the sneezing cat to the cavernous master closet of my bedroom, because all the air outside my closet was unbreathable. She was running back and forth from the closet to the cleanup. She said the fumes were overwhelming. She’d called Maintenance. They’d delivered three industrial fans, which meant opening all the exterior doors: patio, balcony, and veranda. The fans weren’t helping much because they might have been exchanging indoor Black Kow air for outdoor Black Kow air, as there was so much Black Kow on the patio, balcony, and veranda. She didn’t know if the heat was bringing in the chemicals or the chemicals were bringing in the heat, but they couldn’t close the doors because of the living room carpet. A crew was on the way to rip up and replace the carpet for the second time in a single day, everyone was wearing disposable face masks and goggles, but she felt certain everything would be okay soon.

“Initially?”

“What?” July was panting.

“You said initially.”

“Initially, what, Davis?”

“You initially moved Bex, Quinn, the baby, Birdy, Candy, and the sneezing cat to my closet.



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