Chapter 11
“What?” Ruth and Loretta exclaimed.
“You can’t be serious!” Ruth added, her heart sinking. How could this be happening? So much for living her dream by traveling and feeding her passion for baking and making others happy. Instead, she was sitting in front of the chief sea officer of a luxury ship, being accused of murder. How would she explain all of this to her family in Florida?
Officer Humphrey leaned forward. His chair made a torturous squeak under his weight. He flipped through a few pages of a scheduling book on his desk. “You say that you were both scheduled to be in the kitchen at 5 a.m. this morning by Chef Mills, though I don’t see that in his schedule anywhere.”
Loretta craned her neck to look at the open schedule book. Humphrey eyed her before slamming the book s
