A Ghost for Christmas (Destiny Bay Cozy Mysteries Book 1) by Winters J. D

Author:Winters, J. D. [Winters, J. D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Doorknock Publishing
Published: 2014-12-19T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

That bike ride must have really tired me out because I fell asleep the minute my head hit the pillow. And that was lucky, because I woke up again at about 2, my eyes wide open and staring into the night, and I knew it was going to be awhile before I would be able to sleep again.

What had woken me?

Voices. I’d been dreaming.

But wait. I could still hear them. Just a low buzz. I held my breath and tried to make out the words. It was probably just the menehune again. That made me smile. It was almost as though my Hawaii was calling me back, wasn’t it?

“Come back, be a child of the tropics again. We miss you, Melelani. Come back.”

Suddenly there was a deep, abiding ache in my heart, a longing for…what exactly? I wasn’t sure. But I couldn’t stay in bed any longer. I got up and went to the window and looked out at the moonlit night. The moon had touched the landscape with silver, as though a handful of fairy dust had been tossed into the wind. It looked so very different from the day. I stared out, wondering if I should go out and join the night dreamers.

Sami was climbing on the fence. He walked along it in the moonlight, stopping to sniff, and then, suddenly, he stretched up and poked his head into one of the birdhouses. Silly cat.

That was when I realized there was someone in the front yard, someone searching for something. Again.

I couldn’t see well enough to tell who it was. I couldn’t quite get the angle to where the person came into focus. But I should be able to tell once I threw open the front door and confronted them!

I started down the hall, trying to keep as quiet as possible so as not to scare the intruder off before I got a crack at him. Anger was boiling up inside me.

And then it came to me in a flash—this was nuts. Someone had just been killed in that front yard, killed in broad daylight. And I wanted to go out there in the dark? Was I crazy?

I hesitated, wondering if Bebe had a gun, or maybe even a sword. I’d feel a little better if I was armed with something to protect myself. Oh well. No time for that now. How could I let this opportunity slip away just because I might get killed? No time for wimps. I steeled myself and pulled the front door open as quietly as I could and stepped out onto the porch.

Someone or something was crouched behind the camellia bush just off the steps.

“Hey,” I said as boldly as I could manage with my voice shaking the way it was. “What are you doing here?”

I took a step closer, trying to see through the bush, and something rustled and then a black form lunged at me. I screamed, but the intruder had already lashed out, and I was falling off the porch, into the camellia bush.

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