Killer Bridal Party by London Lovett

Author:London Lovett [Lovett, London]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wild Fox Press

Chapter 21

Monday or not, it was a lovely summer morning. The warm, dewy air smelled like green grass and wildflowers with the occasional dash of pine sweeping down from the mountains. I played my morning's agenda in my head several times on my drive to the Junction Times. I was determined to make at least one trip to Stockton Tools under the guise of writing an article about the bridge. Naturally, I'd be working on that too, but I had another better topic to cover—a murder. And since Tory had been employed by Stockton tools, I was going to be killing two of the proverbial birds with one stone. (Probably not the most appropriate metaphor for the situation but it worked.)

I turned my jeep onto Edgewood Drive, the main street that cut the commercial district in two even slices. My focus was on finding a parking spot near the newspaper office when I caught a glimpse of a familiar figure walking along the south sidewalk. It was Cindy. She looked slightly better than she had on Saturday leading me to conclude that whatever flu or virus had gripped her at the campsite was well out of her system. My mind shot back to the hate-filled text conversation between Cindy and Tory. It sure left some reason to suspect Cindy as a person of interest.

Cindy slipped quickly into the Junction Pharmacy. I grabbed the first available spot, even though it meant a three block walk to the newspaper. Suddenly, it seemed in my best investigative reporter's interest to find out what Cindy was doing in the pharmacy. It would probably contribute little toward solving the murder, but it couldn't hurt to do a touch of snooping.

The pharmacy was set up in rows of shelves. As I walked inside, I saw Cindy's bright blue t-shirt disappear around the second to last aisle. Thanks to a well organized drug store, it was easy to conclude that she was buying some kind of vitamin or food supplement. It was possible she was buying some sort of pro-biotic after her bout of stomach troubles. It seemed my mission was going to end in disappointment, but since I'd gone through the trouble of following her into the pharmacy, I decided to see it through until the end.

I stayed securely out of sight in the shoe insert aisle and busied myself with the vast array of orthopedic gels and pads. There were inserts for every level of activity. The pharmacist, a serious looking woman with thick glasses and gray hair bound tightly at the nape of her neck, finished explaining the directions for taking a medicine to an older couple. I stayed hidden in my shoe insert aisle and waited for Cindy to make her supplement selection.

The pharmacy counter was directly at the end of the aisle I stood in, but the customers faced away from me. With any luck, I'd be able to see what Cindy was buying without her seeing me. Even though I'd had

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