A Spooky Little Murder: A Violet Carlyle Historical Mystery (The Violet Carlyle Mysteries Book 37) by Beth Byers

Author:Beth Byers [Byers, Beth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2022-09-29T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

Motoring to Stonehenge was something she hadn’t done since she was ten years old and her great aunt had taken her and Victor. Vi drove while Jack was padded in with pillows and in the passenger seat. They didn’t hurry, and when they reached the destination, the fields around the stones were bright with bonfires, and Vi could hear a band playing in the fields.

She stopped the auto and then looked at Jack. “Are you ready?”

“My costume, darling Vi, is simple. Cape, mask.”

Vi adjusted her long dress and stared at him. She let him lift her long cloak and put it around her shoulders. She had a long dress that was going to trail through the dirt with long sleeves that were beaded, embroidered, and like wings. The gown itself formed to her body, every inch of the fabric swirled with embroidery.

The suggested dress from the woman Vi had bought it from had been dark green. Vi, however, had begged a version of it in dark blue. She had a belt that was a combination of a slash and knotted silks. She looked amazing, and she knew it. Her hair was covered in a cloth that was a little bit like a nun’s but hers was edged in blue silk.

In spite of her elaborate and expensive garments, she grinned at Jack and then dipped her hands in red paint. She held her hands out for a few minutes until they dried and then faced Jack.

“Where’s the veil?” Jack asked.

“Are you insane? How will I eat and drink whatever they are serving?”

He shook his head and then took her hand. He, at least, didn’t care if her hands would damage his clothes, but she was in pure, raving love with this dress, and she intended for it to get through the day and then to wear it on her gray days.

“This party is madness,” Jack said. “How much do you think they bribed whoever is in charge of this place?”

“So much money.”

“People could stop working on that much money, I wager.”

Vi grinned. “Maybe someone is doing just that.”

“They’re riding off into the night, escaping to—”

Vi stepped under his arm as she heard the shout of Denny’s laughter. They started towards their friends and found them in a circle.

Smith was dressed as a devil; Beatrice was the angel. Rita and Ham were Alice and the Mad Hatter. Lila and Denny were both in bear costumes. They looked fuzzy and warm.

“Clever,” Vi told Lila.

Then she looked to her twin. She eyed him. He eyed her. “What madness is this?”

Victor was Macbeth. It was just a generic medieval costume. A simple crown.

He grinned at her with such mischief, they really could have been ten years old again. “You fool. I thought you were going to dress as a clown.”

“I was,” he said, “until I realized—”

She rolled her eyes and glanced back at Jack. “Note that everyone else has matching costumes.”

“What can I say?” he asked.

He was laughing so hard, with such utter delight, she told him, “You won this one.

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