Every pair of eyes in the yard locked onto me.
Carmen scrambled to her feet and lunged at me, hands outstretched, but a few relatives caught her arms and held her back.
She glared at me, eyes bloodshot. "It was you. I know it was you!"
"We said a few words to you and you held a grudge, so you poisoned the food and killed my son and his wife!"
Alden's voice followed right behind hers, a raw, broken roar. "You vicious woman! This family never wronged you. Why would you do something so evil? You're paying for this with your life today!"
Andrew rushed to my side and reached for my arm. I flinched away before he could touch me.
His face was a mask of worry as he turned to the crowd.
"Everyone, please, calm down. Catherine isn't that kind of person. She was upset and went for a walk, that's all. Why would she poison anyone?"
"If not her, then who?" Chester's mother-in-law shoved through the crowd, tears streaming down her face. "We pushed her too far and she stormed out. She even threw the spatula before she left. That's when she made up her mind to kill them!"