Goddess, Guilted by Jacqueline M Green

Author:Jacqueline M Green [Green, Jacqueline M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Josie turned in one direction while I headed down the street toward the Corner Mercantile. I paused to let a car out of the alley and realized I had no plan for finding out information at the Corner Mercantile. I knew it was one of the main shops that sold Red Jasper, but I couldn’t very well ask Sandy if she had sold it to the killer. I sat down on the street-side bench and closed my eyes to concentrate.

It occurred to me that I needed a few more things for my Movie Night basket. I could use that as my reason for stopping in at the Corner Mercantile. I smiled to myself at my own quick thinking. Many of the local shop owners were tired of coming up with basket themes every month for the silent auction, but I was still new enough that I found it fun. Besides, we only had a couple more months before the City Council had raised enough money for the big Jasper Days festivities, which I was eagerly awaiting. I had arrived just after last year’s celebration, so I didn’t know exactly what to expect.

Suddenly I felt someone next to me. My eyes flew open as I jumped.

Neil Samuelson laughed lightly as he sat down beside me. “You’re mighty jumpy, Ms. Stevens.”

I turned toward him as my heart rate couldn’t decide if it should settle down or pitter-patter like crazy. My voice was calmer than I expected it to be. “There’s a killer on the loose, Detective Samuelson. Of course, I’m jumpy.”

“What if I told you I had the killer in jail?” He leaned against the back of the seat and stretched out his long legs, then dug into a white bag he was carrying and pulled out a sugar-coated doughnut. He broke it in half and offered one to me.

I stared at it. “You’re eating a doughnut? Didn’t you just have lunch?”

“A while ago. How did you know?” He turned to stare at me, his eyebrows raised.

I looked away and settled back on the bench. “I saw you go into the diner.”

Silence. I peeked out of the corner of my eye to see Neil biting his lip. Aha! He knew that I had seen him with the blonde.

“Yeah, but it wasn’t a great lunch, so I kept it as short as I could. Sure you don’t want this?”

He waved the doughnut under my nose. I could practically taste the cinnamon sugar on top. I was tempted to refuse, but only for a second, so I accepted with a slight bow, then settled back on the bench next to him. My insides were doing a happy dance with the news that lunch with Blondie was a bomb. I felt oddly nervous now that I had admitted to myself that I was attracted to the detective.

“For a yoga teacher, you sure have a terrible diet.”

“You’re not the first person to notice that.”

He smiled as he looked over at me and threw an arm over the back of the bench as he munched his half of the doughnut.

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