A Midsummer Fang's Dream: A Paranormal Vampire Cozy Mystery: Vampire Pet Boutique Mysteries No. 3 by Elle Wren Burke

Author:Elle Wren Burke [Burke, Elle Wren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

Camille Wainscott was untouchable. The authorities had been trying to nail her for years, but she was too clean. Too good at hiding the dirt. Too good at making sure her associates would never give her up.

She had her hands in everything. Drugs. Bite houses. Gambling. Money laundering. All your typical racketeering acts.

I did not want to tangle with Camille Wainscott. Had Calista been making the drug for her? Could she be who Calista owed money to as well? Maybe Calista owed her money, so Camille forced her to create a new drug?

Or maybe Calista just wanted to sell the drug to Camille?

These questions kicked around my brain for the rest of the day, alongside a list of items I needed to pick up from Jackie’s Crafts for Disha’s party. We’d decided on an orange and pink color scheme. Isa was in charge of food (for which she had big, big plans), Lynnae was in charge of blood blends and entertainment, and I was in charge of decorations. We didn’t have a ton of party supplies available in Arteria Falls—no big-box party supply stores for us—so I was planning on making most things.

You might be thinking, Josie, don’t your joints hurt? Don’t your hands throb at the thought of holding a pair of scissors? Why would you volunteer for crafting? I was asking myself the same questions, believe me. Attempting to write “Happy Vampire Anniversary” on both an indoor banner and an outdoor banner made of hand-cut triangles was going to be interesting. I could just tell everyone Matilda did it, right?

Business picked up around 3:00 p.m. when people started to get off work, but it wasn’t busy enough to stop my mind from spinning on the case. How did I bring all this up to Calder?

The store had emptied by a quarter to six, so I rolled around, cleaning up a display of dog life vests and rearranging the cat treats that had been knocked around throughout the day. I locked the door at six on the dot and rolled over to Buttercup.

“Okay, little baby kitty. You’ve got water and food. I’m off tomorrow, so I’ll see you on Wednesday unless you get adopt—GAH!”

My phone buzzed in my back pocket, nearly causing me to fall out of my wheelchair.

“Holy vampire bats, Buttercup.”

I grabbed my phone.

“Rebecca?” I asked as I answered. I’d exchanged numbers with Calista’s aunt before we left her house, but I hadn’t expected her to actually call me.

“Oh, thank the Goddess. Josie, I’m freaked out. Some huge guy just showed up here to threaten me. He told me I owe him the rest of Calista’s debt. I didn’t even know she had a debt!”

“What the fangs? Are you okay?”

“Physically, yes. But I’m all shaken up.”

I bet. Strange men making demands and threats would shake anyone up. “I’ll be there in ten minutes.”

I disconnected the call and rolled to my office, where Matilda was napping. “C’mon, girl. We’ve gotta go.”

Zooming across Arteria Falls almost caused Matilda to go flying across the van, but we made it to Rebecca’s in one piece.

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