Spoonful of Christmas
“—Burton Hillis “STOLEN AGAIN?” ANDI demanded. “How is that possible?”
She looked around the vacant shop, trying to quell the uneasiness in her stomach. The day before, Creative Cupcakes could have been mistaken for Santa’s workshop with all of the colorful new gifts, toys, candies, and little “elf” kids running around. Today, there was nothing left to suggest Christmas was only two days away—no tree, no red stockings, no mistletoe. Worse, the handmade gray bakery mouse ornament her mother had m...ade her so many years ago had also been taken.
As the room spun, she gripped the counter. Her mother’s ornament was irreplaceable, one of a kind. Something she’d never get back.
“There’s no sign of breaking and entering,” Ian Lockwell informed her. “The thief must have had a key to come into the shop and then lock the door on his way out, unless he dropped down from the roof. But since you don’t have a chimney, I think we can rule that out.”
“How would this thief get a key?”MoreLess
She looked around the vacant shop, trying to quell the uneasiness in her stomach. The day before, Creative Cupcakes could have been mistaken for Santa’s workshop with all of the colorful new gifts, toys, candies, and little “elf” kids running around. Today, there was nothing left to suggest Christmas was only two days away—no tree, no red stockings, no mistletoe. Worse, the handmade gray bakery mouse ornament her mother had m...ade her so many years ago had also been taken.
As the room spun, she gripped the counter. Her mother’s ornament was irreplaceable, one of a kind. Something she’d never get back.
“There’s no sign of breaking and entering,” Ian Lockwell informed her. “The thief must have had a key to come into the shop and then lock the door on his way out, unless he dropped down from the roof. But since you don’t have a chimney, I think we can rule that out.”
“How would this thief get a key?”MoreLess
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