Offed in the Orchids (Lovely Lethal Gardens Book 15) by Dale Mayer
Author:Dale Mayer [Mayer, Dale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Cozy, mystery
ISBN: 9781773363707
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2021-11-22T18:30:00+00:00
Chapter 16
Quite a few hours later, Doreen had finished the laundry, cleaned up the kitchen, vacuumed, and generally taken care of the house that was sure to be hers for at least another year, when she turned to the animals. âDo you want to go visit Nan?â
Whether it was Nanâs name, the word go, or something elseâlike her tone of voice or body languageâMugs immediately started barking and racing around, looking for his leash. Goliath even appeared interested, as he sauntered toward her. Thaddeus hopped onto the kitchen table and started in with, âThaddeus loves Nan. Thaddeus loves Nan.â
She smiled. âYou and me both, buddy. You and me both.â
Then she gathered up all the animals, looked around the house bequeathed to her by Nan, and decided she should take Nan something. But she hadnât bought anything, hadnât made anything, and didnât really know how to make anything, so that was pretty well the extent of what she could do right now. Shrugging, she headed out to the creek by way of her backyard garden, then stopped. She did have a dahlia with a beautiful bloom, so maybe she could make up a small floral bundle.
She raced back into the house, returned with garden scissors, and snipped off an open bloom and an almost-ready-to-open bloom. Then she grabbed some leafy greens from one of her other plants, just a few leaves to go around the edge. Back inside, she wrapped them up with a bit of ribbon. With any luck they wouldnât look quite as homemade to Nan as they did to Doreen. With flowers in hand, she headed to Nanâs place.
At the corner she passed several people watching the river. Doreen smiled. âGood afternoon.â They waved and smiled back.
One woman said, âOh, those flowers are just lovely.â
Doreen grinned. âThank you. They are for my grandmother.â
âLucky grandmother,â the woman said enviously. âThatâs a truly beautiful bloom.â
âItâs a dahlia,â she said, âone from my garden.â
âWow,â she said. âYou must be quite a gardener if you can grow flowers like that.â
Doreen looked at the dahlia critically. As a dinner plate dahlia, it was huge, and it had a really strong stalk, so, in that sense, it was doing very well. âI did put a bit of work in the garden,â she said, knowing it was a load of crock because she hadnât yet done a fraction of what she needed to do, but she was getting there.
âItâs truly beautiful.â The woman hesitated. âListen. I know you said that youâre taking that to someone, but do you have any more that you could do up in a different bundle for them?â
Doreen looked at her in surprise. âWhy do you ask?â
âBecause Iâm going to visit a friend, who just lost somebody very dear, and I havenât yet picked up flowers,â she explained. âAs I look at what youâve got there in your hand, I think theyâre the prettiest thing Iâve ever seen.â
Doreen immediately felt bad, wondering how could she give away the flowers sheâd picked for her own grandmother, yet, at the same time, if anyone would understand, it would be Nan.
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