The Trouble with Thanksgiving by Addison Moore & Bellamy Bloom

Author:Addison Moore & Bellamy Bloom [Moore, Addison & Bloom, Bellamy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hollis Thatcher Press, LTD.
Published: 2024-08-22T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

Vera leans toward Georgie and me, right here in front of their booth inside the Crafters Warehouse.

“You know that old saying? Keep your friends close and your enemies closer?” Vera asks. “Well, too bad for Magda she didn’t know she had an enemy infiltrating her ranks—and sleeping with her husband. It turns out, Blythe and Beau were having an affair. It went on for two years, right under Magda’s nose, until one day— Well, we don’t want to get into the gory details, but let’s just say, Magda found them in a compromising position.”

Georgie and I groan in unison.

“Come on, Toots.” Georgie tips her head toward Vera. “Don’t stop now. This is just getting to the good part.”

I poke Georgie in the ribs with my elbow.

What? she muses internally. You and I both know it’s true.

She’s not wrong, but I’m not about to admit it either.

“It’s okay,” Claudia says. “She’s right. It’s quite the titillating tail. Blythe destroyed that marriage.” She cringes for a moment. “Well, I guess you could say Beau did as well.”

Vera nods. “They both took down that union.”

“Magda was devastated, as were their kids,” Claudia goes on. “The kids took sides—Magda’s side, as they probably should have. Anyway, it destroyed their family. And despite Blythe’s incessant bid for forgiveness, Magda never forgave her. In fact, she often said Blythe was dead to her.”

“That’s right,” Vera continues. “And on more than one occasion Magda said that she would kill Blythe herself if she knew she could get away with it.”

Claudia shakes her head as if she wishes Vera didn’t say those words out loud before thinking to herself, All we need is Bizzy thinking that poor Magda is behind this. Hasn’t Magda been through enough?

I’ll say, I muse to myself.

“Wait a minute,” I say as I look to the women. “But I distinctly saw Magda speaking to Blythe the night of the Friendsgiving dinner.”

Georgie gasps again. “I bet she was plotting that woman’s murder and that’s why Blythe ended up dead in the water.”

“On the beach,” I correct.

“But dead in the water is so much more fun to say,” she’s quick to protest and I avert my eyes before offering a meager smile to the women before us.

“Well, they did seem like they weren’t exactly having an amicable conversation. It looked rather tense,” I say, “But I hardly think she was plotting to do the poor woman in.”

“I agree.” Vera lifts a finger. “We all know what happened to Blythe, and that probably explains why she did the deadly deed to begin with. The poor thing was filled with nothing but guilt and shame right to the bitter end. For all these years, she’s carried that with her. I told her she had to let it go, to forgive herself, that what was in the past was in the past. That she couldn’t change any of it.”

“But I think it only added to her paranoia,” Claudia says.

Vera shakes her head. “Her paranoia was very much real. She thought someone was after her.

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