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guests are just
over-reacting,” Sarah insisted. “Dad, you can get back in the kitchen tomorrow.
The guests will forget everything when they smell you cooking breakfast.”
    David
shook his head.
    “Your
dad is not going back into the kitchen,” David protested. “I think it is time
for your parents to find somewhere else to stay. If I had put my foot down
before we faced these allegations, we wouldn’t be in this position. Your
parents have been a drain on The Heights for months.”
    Carolyn
couldn’t hold her tongue any longer. “We have not been a drain on the B & B
and we never have been. I’ll have you know, David, my blog has been very
profitable. I’ve been contributing to The Heights ever since we moved in here.”
    “You’re
lying,” David glared at her.
    “You
can ask my daughter if you don’t believe me,” Carolyn demanded.
    David
turned to Sarah.
    She
dropped her eyes and fiddled with her fingers.
    “How
long have you been doing this?” Karl bellowed. “I have been staying up at
nights worrying about paying back David and now you’re telling me you have been
doing it the whole time. This is humiliating.”
    Carolyn
faced her husband. “I kept it secret from you becauseI
knew how you would react. It’s bad enough we had to ask our daughter to take us
in, butI knew you would be outraged if you knew
your wife was taking care of things.”
    “I’ve
always done my part around here,” Karl shot back. “I’ve worked in the kitchen
from morning ‘til night since the very first day we moved in.”
    “I
thought it was great that you were back in the kitchen. It was helping them out
and you seemed happier,” Carolyn told him. “But we cost the B & B more than
you save them in the kitchen. I couldn’t let our stay drain their finances. They
have a hard enough time making the business work. I covered all the costs of us
being here but I didn’t see any harm in keeping it from you. I told Sarah not
to tell David. I didn’t know how much David resented us being here. Maybe I
should have been honest with everyone from the start.”
    Karl
puffed out his cheeks and waved his arms around, but words failed him.
    David
smacked his lips. “Why did you keep it a secret? Why did you let me make such
an idiot out of myself?”
    Carolyn
cast a sidelong glance at her husband. “I make a lot more money with my blog
than Karl ever did with our restaurant. That restaurant was his pride and joy,
but we never made much profit. If you want us to leave, I have enough money
saved up to rent a place in town.”
    Sarah
gasped. “You don’t need to stay here? I didn’t know you had enough money to do
that.”
    “It’s
a bit too late now, don’t you think,” David chimed in. “That would have been
helpful before your husband murdered two guests.”
    “I
know you never really liked me, David. I’m grateful that you agreed to let us
stay when we had nowhere to go. If you really want us to leave, we will.”
Carolyn placedher hand on her daughter’s
shoulder. “I didn’t want to leave. I really love living with you, this is the
closest we’ve been since you were young. I don’t want to lose that now.”
    “I’ve
had enough of this, I need to start dinner,” David grumbled.
    Carolyn
nodded. “David, I wanted to get to know you, too. I thought by living together
we would grow closer.”
    Karl
growled. “Thanks for making me look like a fool in front of the kids. I guess
I’m just a bumbling, useless chef you need to take care of.”
    Just
then, a loud knock came from the front door. Sarah opened it to find Detective
Gillespie waiting outside.
    Babs
Gillespie sauntered in.
    “What
do you want?” Karl snapped.
    Babs frowned
at Karl as she announced. “I’m sorry, Karl, but I’m here to arrest you for the
murder of Paul Tenboom and Monica Rorschach.”
    “What?”
Carolyn cried. “What proof do you have?”
    Babs approached
Karl. “We found your response to Porky’s review of your restaurant.