Purrfect Party (The Mysteries of Max Book 81) by Nic Saint

Author:Nic Saint [Saint, Nic]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Puss in Books
Published: 2024-04-06T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 25

Uncle Alec took Odelia aside for a moment. “Listen,” he said. “I just talked to Charlene, and she told me we can go and meet the president as Marge and Tex’s plus-ones. I’m guessing you’re the other plus-ones? You and Chase?”

Odelia stared at her uncle. This was the first she was hearing of this. “Meet the president?”

He seemed taken aback. “You didn’t know?”

“No, Mom hasn’t told me. You mean they’re actually going to meet the president?”

He seemed embarrassed that he was the one to break the news to her. “Yeah, the president has a cabin in the mountains, and every year invites a few people over for a special birthday dinner. There’s a raffle you can enter and when your name is pulled from the hat you get an invitation. And apparently this year Marge and Tex got lucky.” He eyed her strangely. “So if you and Chase aren’t going, then who is?”

“No idea,” said Odelia honestly. She wondered why her mom hadn’t told her, and vowed to ask her the moment they arrived home. “But good for you, Uncle Alec. I hope you have a great time. When is it?”

“Next week,” he said. “Only Charlene wants me to buy a tux, and I’m not sure I want to take on that expense. You wouldn’t happen to know a place where I could rent a tux on the cheap, would you? I mean, it’s not as if I’m going to wear it again.”

“Can’t you wear the tux you wore for the wedding?”

“Charlene says it’s not nice enough for the president. She’s going to buy a new dress, and I guess she doesn’t want me to look like a bum next to her.”

She patted his chest. “Chase knows a great place. It’s where he rented his tux for our wedding. I’ll ask him, shall I?”

“Please do. Oh, and don’t tell Charlene, ok?”

“My lips are sealed,” she promised with a smile.

They joined the others, and since there wasn’t a whole lot they could do, they decided to return to the police station, where Chase had a man in custody who might be able to tell them more about what was going on in this most baffling case.

And so it wasn’t long before she was sitting on one side of a one-way mirror and Chase on the other, facing the suspect he’d asked his officers to apprehend in the park. Her four cats were seated on the table that offered the perfect view of interview room number one, and her uncle stood next to her, his arms folded across his chest, looking hopeful that they might be able to squeeze something interesting and revealing out of this man.

Dickson, or Lucas Boyle as his real name turned out to be, hadn’t resisted arrest, though he had expressed surprise. He was a beefy man with a beet-red face who must have been sleeping rough for a while, if the state of his personal hygiene and physical appearance were anything to go by. His clothes

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