The Murderous Macaron by Ana T Drew

Author:Ana T Drew [Drew, Ana T]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Julie Cavallo Investigates, Book 1
Published: 2020-02-05T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

It’s Friday afternoon. Flo is behind the counter. I’m in the kitchen, baking.

Allegedly.

What I’m really doing is staring into the void, while my thoughts go in circles.

The FERJ meeting at Rose’s last night was very different in mood from the previous ones. Even though I was the only one on the team to have met Nadia, her death was at the forefront of everybody’s mind.

Was there a connection? Could it be a mere coincidence that Maurice’s ex-wife died in the same way, just a week after him? Will the cops write her death off as a “natural event” or will they have a medical examiner perform an autopsy?

Will Capitaine Adinian be able to persuade his commandant to let him investigate?

Will Adinian want to persuade his commandant?

Boy, I’d been so sure that if anyone had poisoned Maurice Sauve, it would be Nadia! Except she’s dead now, likely poisoned by the exact same substance as her ex in the exact same way.

Rose, who’d been cheering me on since the outset, began to say that maybe I should take a step back from this—all of us, in fact—and let the gendarmes do their job.

But how can I?

Today, I’m supposed to start baking samples for the Lavender Show and finish decorating the jumbo wedding cake. Tomorrow, Eric and I are delivering it to the Prouttes at their one of a kind residence that I’ve heard so much about from Rose. Until yesterday afternoon, I was looking forward to seeing the mini Versailles with my own eyes. Now I don’t care. I’m too restless. I can’t even focus long enough to pick a flavor for my samples.

I roll my eyes upward. Lavender, dumbo! It’s for the Lavender Show.

I reach for my phone and pull up Cat’s number, which goes to show how desperate the situation is. We fell out because I refused to take her visions seriously, and now I’m about to swallow my pride and ask her to scour the future for a possible clue.

Because the one I got from the past turned out useless.

Except, here’s the thing. Assuming Cat’s visions are real, they won’t be of much use to me, either. For Cat to catch a glimpse of somebody’s future, she must meet them first. Talk to them. Feel their auras or whatever she calls it. Both Maurice and Nadia Sauve are dead now, which means Cat has zero chances of talking to them. Oh, and by the way, they have no future to glimpse.

I call Cat anyway, just to talk.

“I had a vision about you,” is the first thing she says to me.

“About me? What vision?”

“A bad one.”

“Ooh,” I intone. “I’m scared.”

“For once, please take it seriously, Julie. You’re in too much danger.”

“Of what nature?” I ask.

There’s silence. “I’m not sure.”

“Then what makes you sure I’m in danger?”

“Listen,” she says. “My visions are usually allegorical, not literal. If I tell you exactly what I saw, it won’t make much sense to you.”

“Try me.”

Another silence.

“The symbols I saw are meaningful only to me,” Cat finally says.

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