Revenge Is Sweet by Kaye George

Author:Kaye George [George, Kaye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lyrical Press
Published: 2020-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Yolanda half listened to her stylist at Fancy’s Curls talking about the fish her son had caught last weekend while she strained to hear the woman two chairs over. Her voice was loud, but the place was full of chatter, so she couldn’t make out every word.

Tally had called Yolanda last night and said she wanted to find out everything she could about Gene’s parents. Neither of them seemed to even like him, let alone love him. Yolanda doubted that would prompt them to murder him in Tally’s shop. But Yolanda agreed to scout out the hairdresser on the off chance she hear something that would lend a clue to the murder.

Just now, by an amazing coincidence, Yolanda deduced that the woman two seats over was talking about Gene’s mother.

“She’s always been mad at Josef for adopting him. He was a hard-case juvenile delinquent, you know.”

“I know,” the stylist answered. “She comes here to have her hair done. She was here the day he was killed.”

“I couldn’t believe it when he threw it right in the water. I mean, we hadn’t even weighed it yet.”

Yolanda nodded to Khristie, her own hairdresser, and strained to hear the other conversation.

“Was she?”

Now Yolanda held her breath, listening. Did Mrs. Faust have an alibi in the hairdressers’ shop? Or did she get her hair done and then go kill her son?

“It was nine pounds if it was an ounce,” her own stylist said, continuing the fish saga.

The customer in the other chair continued, “So at least she didn’t kill her own son.”

“I’m not so sure. She hated him.”

“What time was she here, though? You said she was here when he was killed.”

“I don’t know if it was exactly when he was killed. She showed up late because her car wouldn’t start. Or so she said. She also left early for some reason. She ended up getting a trim when she was scheduled for a perm.”

Yolanda wondered if the stylist was trying to make more out of the situation than it warranted, to make herself the center of attention. Several patrons were staring at her, wide-eyed. The one between them and Yolanda said, “So you think she killed her own son?”

“I didn’t say that. Only that she wasn’t here as long as she was supposed to be. She mentioned to me in the grocery store that the police had asked her about that day and she said she was here all afternoon.”

Yolanda’s own hairdresser asked, “Have you told the cops that?”

The gossiper stuck her chin out. “They didn’t ask.”

A chorus piped up, telling her she needed to talk to the police.

It occurred again to Yolanda that she didn’t have the world’s worst parents. Even if Gene’s mother didn’t kill him, she was an awful mother. His father could just as well have killed him, too, since neither of the older Fausts wanted him. And they had, after all, adopted him. Why, if they didn’t want him? Was it truly a publicity stunt by the mayor, as so many people said? How awful to play with a person’s life like that.

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