Forty Thousand Dollars and the Deed to Maple Avenue Bakery

with my shoulder. “She refused. She said she would find another way.”

Diana stopped, her yellow pencil twirling between her fingers as she looked at me. “She does not have another way, Aunt Evelyn. Not unless she is getting money from somewhere we do not know about.”

“She said we do not need Arthur’s help,” I said.

Diana leaned closer, her eyes bright continue reading …