Wordle by Wordle: Day 81
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Wordle #1006 - SHADE
Chapter 10.
I decide to stay in the City for a while, but I can’t decide whether to confront Bree yet.
Part of me wants to march over to her house, unannounced, and ambush her like I did Austin—my nerves are still firing with the residual thrill. But another part of me thinks I should wait, get more proof. Any concrete proof, really. Something more than my suspicions, strong though they may be.
Well, for starters, Bree had asked me to call her today. I could ring her up, feel out whether it’s the right time to strike.
My nervous excitement gives way to dread when I hit the call button. As Bree’s phone rings, I move to the corner of the coworking space I’d parked myself in, farther away from the two guys hunched over a laptop together.
“Oh, hi, Cece!” Bree says brightly as soon as she picks up. “I’m so glad you called me.”
“Hi, Bree. I’m glad you answered.”
I am glad, in a way. I left Early Morning Yoga almost thirty minutes ago—plenty of time for Austin to debrief Bree on the nosy reporter who’d accused them of murder. Which means they didn’t figure out that said reporter was me. If they had, Bree would be on her way to burn down my apartment, not chatting with me.
Or, Austin hasn’t told Bree yet. She does seem awfully chipper for someone who has just found out she’s suspected of murder. Or maybe Bree has turned the tables and is now trying to deceive me. Or—
“Cece, I just have to apologize again. I am so, so sorry for kicking you out like that yesterday. That was so rude of me, oh my god! I can’t even believe I did that,” Bree rattles off her stream of consciousness in a single breath. “And I didn’t mean to throw shade on your job. I’m sure you’re a great private detective or whatever—"
“No, Bree, I should be the one apologizing.” Sorry not sorry, you homicidal b— “Your husband had just been murdered, I should’ve been more sensitive to your feelings.”
One of the guys whips his head away from the laptop to stare at me.
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