Seed No Evil by Kate Collins

Author:Kate Collins
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2013-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

Shortly after five o’clock, I locked the flower shop and hurried up the street to Down the Hatch, which had no shortage of customers. Marco was standing with Rafe behind the bar, giving him what appeared to be a lecture. The look on Rafe’s face said he wasn’t happy about it.

“I get it, Marco,” Rafe said irritably, as I slid onto a newly vacated stool. “You don’t have to keep going over it.”

“If you got it,” Marco said in a low voice, “you wouldn’t have made the mistake.”

“Hi, guys,” I said.

“Hey, hot stuff,” Rafe said unenthusiastically.

Marco looked up and smiled. “Hey, babe. I’ll be with you in a minute. You want to see if you can find us an empty booth?”

I swiveled to scan the wall behind me, but all the booths were filled. “Looks like we’ll be eating in your office,” I told him.

“That’s fine. I’ll meet you there in a few minutes.”

Obviously Rafe’s lecture wasn’t over. I hopped off the stool and headed for Marco’s office, taking a seat in one of the leather chairs in front of his desk. My cell phone beeped, so I dug it out of my purse and read the text message. It was from Tara: Mtg w/Dad & Mom in 10 min. Xcited!!! :-D

I texted back, Good luck!

The door opened and closed behind me, and a moment later Marco leaned down to kiss me on the cheek. “How’s my favorite redhead?”

“Hungry and nervous, in that order.”

“Nervous about the interview with Dayton?”

“That, and my mom said there’s going to be a special board meeting to decide on the no-kill policy. I wish I had time to help her with the protest. The best I can do is try to convince Dayton to leave the policy as it is.”

“You can’t do everything, Abby. You’re going to have to trust your mom with this one so you can focus on the case. I think your mom would prefer that, too.”

The case, my wedding, my floundering flower shop . . . I massaged my neck. It ached just thinking about all there was to do. When was I going to squeeze in time to write my wedding vows?

“Tell me what you’d like to eat,” Marco said, “and I’ll go inform the kitchen.”

“Whatever kind of sandwich you’re having is fine with me.”

“Want to try a new brand of microbrewed beer? We just got it in today.”

“Sounds good.”

While Marco was gone, I took the yellow legal pad from his desk and wrote Questions for Dayton at the top. Then I wrote:

How did you find out that Emma took money from PAR?

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