#WeWriWa ~ The Case of the Wrecked Wedding: All Your Fault

 

Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors, where writers share snippets from their work-in-progress or new release. Sorry to have been AWOL for a few weekends. 

I'm sharing snippets from the 4th Alex O'Hara cozy mystery, The Case of the Wedding Wrecker. This follows immediately after the last snippet. Alex and her dad followed police deputy Dawson (aka Deputy Dawg, Alex's nemesis since 2nd grade) who interrupted the wedding ceremony by arresting Nick for the murder of Mike Amerson, Todd's stepfather. Todd is holding the door at the police station for Alex and her dad.

BTW, since this is a work in progress, suggestions are always welcome.

Snippet:  

I’d looped the train over my arm. As soon as I had a second, I was unhooking it—or whatever to free me from tripping over the damn thing. As soon as we entered the station, Sharon Amerson, Todd’s mother, who had been sitting on a bench, ran up to him.

“He’s gone,” she sobbed. The small woman flung herself into his arms. “Your father is dead.”

Todd stiffened before holding her in an awkward embrace. “My father died seven years ago, Mom. Mike isn’t . . . wasn’t my father.”

And a little more:   

She cried even harder before looking up at her son. She held his shoulders. “Oh, my boy. You are so handsome. Where . . . Why are you all dressed up?”

“Mo-om, I told you about the wedding. You were invited. Mr. Nick and Miss Alex—”

“You!” Sharon pointed at me. “It’s all your fault. If you hadn’t interfered, Mike would still be alive.”

When she charged at me, Deputy Jenny Sampson burst around the locked barrier into the lobby. Since Rose was at the church, Jenny manned—womanned?—the dispatch desk. Todd grabbed his mother’s arms and held her back.

“Mom, what are you doing?”

“They killed your father. The two of them.” She sobbed and fell into her son’s arms.

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