The Wolf Wore Plaid by Terry Spear

Author:Terry Spear
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2021-02-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

When Enrick and Heather reached the small, windowless room equipped with a twin-size bed covered in a blue and white quilt, a blue chintz chair, and a small, round table, they found the woman who’d contaminated the meal. She was sitting on the chair, looking superior and not in the least bit contrite for what she had done. Her chin was tilted up, her arms folded defensively across her waist, her whole posture telling them they weren’t going to get a thing out of her.

“I’m Heather, and you are…?” Heather was irritated with the woman, who appeared to feel no remorse for what she’d done.

The woman pursed her lips. She was pretty and petite, with a small face and beautiful long, dark hair under her veil. Her blue eyes narrowed in contempt. “I know who you are. Patrick killed your intended. You act like we’re the only ones who start things—”

“Patrick had.”

The woman frowned. “Timothy was a hothead. Did he tell you he had dated Robert and Patrick’s sister?”

If the woman thought she was going to upset Heather with news she didn’t already know, she was wrong. “Aye. She hid the fact she was a Kilpatrick from him. He told me all about it. When he learned she was their sister, he stopped seeing her.”

This was not supposed to be about Heather, damn it.

“Is that what he told you? That he didn’t know who she was? Of course he did,” the woman said.

“Aye, but it doesn’t really matter now, does it? He’s dead, at the hand of one of her brothers who started the confrontation. You being here has nothing to do with any of this. Unless you did it out of some misplaced sense of revenge on behalf of the Kilpatricks’ sister.”

The woman didn’t say anything, and Heather suspected it wasn’t the case.

“Did you know what you were doing when you added bacteria to the cauldrons?” Heather figured the woman had to have. Why would she have worn the same kind of costume they were wearing, sneaked into the castle, and in front of all the other people who were busy in the kitchen while the filming was going on, added something to the fish stew and not have had a clue as to what she was doing?

Looking anywhere but at Heather’s gaze, the woman didn’t say anything.

“Who told you to add it to the stew?” Heather hoped they could at least get that information out of the woman.

Enrick was looking so growly that Heather thought he might be inhibiting the woman from speaking.

“Enrick, can you leave us alone for a few minutes?” Heather didn’t want to dismiss him, but she thought she might get somewhere with the woman if he was not hovering over them.

He cast the woman a hard look, then nodded to Heather and left the room. She was glad Enrick didn’t appear to be annoyed with her for wanting to question the woman alone.

Heather shut the door and sat on the bed. “Okay, so who told you to do this?”

At first the woman was mute.

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