Sweet Avengers by J A Whiting

Author:J A Whiting [Whiting, J A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J A Whiting Books and Whitemark Publishing
Published: 2020-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

14

“I don’t like Lindsey.” Angie was lining a baking sheet with graham crackers, preparing frozen s’mores for dessert.

“Do you mean you don’t like her or you don’t like her?” Courtney asked.

Mr. Finch looked across the kitchen from the stove where he was making fudge. “I believe Miss Courtney is asking if your senses are picking up on something about the woman.”

“I feel like she’s holding back information. I feel like she knows something and is hiding it from us.” Angie whisked together vanilla pudding and milk. “My senses are telling me she can’t be trusted.”

“Okay. Interesting … because I had the same sensations.” Courtney was sitting at the table going through the case files again.

“The woman gives something off.” Angie was trying to find the right words to express herself. “It makes me want to withdraw from her.”

Euclid hissed from the top of the fridge.

“But is all of this your powers at work or is it something a normal person would pick up on?” Ellie chopped vegetables for the chili she was making.

Courtney replied, “It’s our paranormal Spidey sense at work.”

“I don’t feel anything unusual from her.” Ellie added some diced onions to the slow cooker.

“That’s because you’re blocking incoming sensations. You don’t want to feel them.”

Jenna came into the room with a baby on each hip.

“What do you think of Lindsey?” Courtney questioned.

“I don’t like her,” Jenna said as Finch helped her place the kids in the high chairs. “My inner alarms go off when she’s around warning me away from her.”

“We all feel the same way,” Angie reported. “Does it mean Lindsey is involved in Mom’s death?”

“I can’t figure that out yet.” Jenna poured a cup of tea. “There’s something she doesn’t want to tell us. Maybe she wants us to think she and Mom were good friends for some reason when we know that isn’t the case. Mom’s friend, Lara, told us Mom didn’t care for Lindsey.”

“Maybe Lindsey harbored resentment towards Mom and didn’t like her at all and was secretly glad when she died,” Courtney guessed.

Angie tilted her head considering what her sisters had said. “You might have something there. Those are good ideas. Lindsey pretends she and Mom were friendly, when in reality, Lindsey might not have liked her. That could be what I’m sensing from her, dishonesty in what she says about Mom. There’s probably nothing sinister about her.”

“Lara Deering keeps popping into my head.” Courtney got up to make a cup of coffee. “It still seems to me that she took off from Boston pretty fast. Could she have had something to do with what happened to Mom? She found us here at this Beacon Hill house claiming she heard people talking about us at the conference. Is that a stretch? Who would be talking about us at the conference?”

“Maybe Lindsey was at the conference,” Jenna suggested. “She knew we were in town.”

“But she didn’t know where we were staying,” Courtney protested. “Nobody knew.”

“Well, somebody knew because Lara found us here.” Ellie seasoned the chili.

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