it.” Josh’s brow rose an inch.
“He did what?” I shuddered inwardly at the thought of something like this getting out. It was exactly what the Marys were afraid of.
But no, I had to practically beg them to let me do this when they had their meeting with the Village Council members.
“Yep.” Pearl nodded her head, but didn’t skip a beat putting the bottles in the machine to get filled up with my stress free lotions. “Search ‘Burt Rossen’s killer’.”
“Ouch.” I shook my wrist when it felt hot and looked down. The liquid in the potion bottle charm was bubbling. “Is that guard here this morning?”
“He is.” Josh pointed to the offices up above. “He had a meeting with some policeman about the discovery. He swears you were doing some voodoo chant. Said he was going to call the news too.”
“Not if I can help it.” I bolted out of the factory and up the steps.
Harm to none; that was what Bella had told me about the liquid inside the potion charm. But what did that mean?
“I’m going to have to cancel the meeting today.” I informed Tiffany after I had gone to the security station looking for that guard. He was nowhere to be found. “I have an emergency in Whispering Falls.”
Tiffany looked up at me from her desk. Her makeup ran down her face.
“Maybe you should go home.” I suggested when I noticed all the pictures of her and Burt scattered all over the top of her desk. “Even if you and Burt didn’t have the best relationship, you were still married, you shared a life together.”
“I loved him,” she sputtered through sobs. “And I’m afraid he never loved me. It was all a sham.”
“What are you talking about?” I didn’t understand what she was telling me.
“We are done for.” She shook her head and picked up a piece of paper off the desk. “After you asked me about the will, I called our lawyer. Burt and Jenny had recently redone his will to make her his executrix and leave her all his shares of the company if something were to happen to him. It not only gives her two-thirds of the company once the estate settles, but immediate control right away between her shares and her power over Burt’s shares in his estate.”
“That doesn’t mean Head To Toe Works is finished.” The more I thought about this Jenny woman; the more and more she began to become a suspect. What mother would kill her son? A greedy one.
“I just got off the phone with her. She’s ordered the production line to be shut down as of right now.” Tiffany hung her head. “I’m sorry, June. It’s over. There is no amount of Gentle June that will take this much stress away.”
It was hard trying to swallow the big pill of failure. Not accomplishing what I had set out to do didn’t sit well with my soul, or maybe it was my intuition nagging me. The fight between Burt and the woman the night of his death could be the link Oscar needed to help find the killer.
It wasn’t like I felt the woman killed Burt. There were plenty of women who worked in the factory, but only one I had seen him grab. Tiffany. This woman was the second. The logical situation was the woman killed him and put him on the conveyor belt, only Burt wasn’t the smallest of men. And I couldn’t help but think the woman in the fight Madame Torres showed me would be capable of hoisting Burt on the conveyor belt.
The ride to the Locust Grove Police Station seemed much longer than usual. The feeling of guilt for my village who had put so much confidence in me going outside of our community to bring extra income to the village weighed heavy on me. Telling Oscar the deal had not even come to fruition made it real. More real than I was ready to deal with.
Plus I had brought the Marys and Mac McGurtle into the mix with all the contracts and to make sure no one outside of our village found out who the resident of Whispering Falls really was.
“Here goes nothing,” I murmured under my breath when I put the Green Machine in
“He did what?” I shuddered inwardly at the thought of something like this getting out. It was exactly what the Marys were afraid of.
But no, I had to practically beg them to let me do this when they had their meeting with the Village Council members.
“Yep.” Pearl nodded her head, but didn’t skip a beat putting the bottles in the machine to get filled up with my stress free lotions. “Search ‘Burt Rossen’s killer’.”
“Ouch.” I shook my wrist when it felt hot and looked down. The liquid in the potion bottle charm was bubbling. “Is that guard here this morning?”
“He is.” Josh pointed to the offices up above. “He had a meeting with some policeman about the discovery. He swears you were doing some voodoo chant. Said he was going to call the news too.”
“Not if I can help it.” I bolted out of the factory and up the steps.
Harm to none; that was what Bella had told me about the liquid inside the potion charm. But what did that mean?
“I’m going to have to cancel the meeting today.” I informed Tiffany after I had gone to the security station looking for that guard. He was nowhere to be found. “I have an emergency in Whispering Falls.”
Tiffany looked up at me from her desk. Her makeup ran down her face.
“Maybe you should go home.” I suggested when I noticed all the pictures of her and Burt scattered all over the top of her desk. “Even if you and Burt didn’t have the best relationship, you were still married, you shared a life together.”
“I loved him,” she sputtered through sobs. “And I’m afraid he never loved me. It was all a sham.”
“What are you talking about?” I didn’t understand what she was telling me.
“We are done for.” She shook her head and picked up a piece of paper off the desk. “After you asked me about the will, I called our lawyer. Burt and Jenny had recently redone his will to make her his executrix and leave her all his shares of the company if something were to happen to him. It not only gives her two-thirds of the company once the estate settles, but immediate control right away between her shares and her power over Burt’s shares in his estate.”
“That doesn’t mean Head To Toe Works is finished.” The more I thought about this Jenny woman; the more and more she began to become a suspect. What mother would kill her son? A greedy one.
“I just got off the phone with her. She’s ordered the production line to be shut down as of right now.” Tiffany hung her head. “I’m sorry, June. It’s over. There is no amount of Gentle June that will take this much stress away.”
It was hard trying to swallow the big pill of failure. Not accomplishing what I had set out to do didn’t sit well with my soul, or maybe it was my intuition nagging me. The fight between Burt and the woman the night of his death could be the link Oscar needed to help find the killer.
It wasn’t like I felt the woman killed Burt. There were plenty of women who worked in the factory, but only one I had seen him grab. Tiffany. This woman was the second. The logical situation was the woman killed him and put him on the conveyor belt, only Burt wasn’t the smallest of men. And I couldn’t help but think the woman in the fight Madame Torres showed me would be capable of hoisting Burt on the conveyor belt.
The ride to the Locust Grove Police Station seemed much longer than usual. The feeling of guilt for my village who had put so much confidence in me going outside of our community to bring extra income to the village weighed heavy on me. Telling Oscar the deal had not even come to fruition made it real. More real than I was ready to deal with.
Plus I had brought the Marys and Mac McGurtle into the mix with all the contracts and to make sure no one outside of our village found out who the resident of Whispering Falls really was.
“Here goes nothing,” I murmured under my breath when I put the Green Machine in
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