A Wonder Springs Cozy Mystery Omnibus: Books 1, 2 & 3 by B.T. Alive & Bill Alive

Author:B.T. Alive & Bill Alive [Alive, B.T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, psychic mysteries, cozy animal mystery, Women Sleuths, Humor, comedy, new adult, cozy mystery, amateur sleuths, small town, mountain, series
Publisher: Villette Press
Published: 2021-03-25T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27

I considered ditching David and just walking away, but the dude was still passed out, and his car was sideways in the road.

“Mr. Wilson?” I said. “Hi. I don’t suppose you know how to drive stick?”

He stared.

“I’m really sorry about… just now,” I said. “We had kind of an issue with…” I glanced back across the bridge.

Enoch was gone.

Mr. Wilson licked his lips. “A storm draws near…” he croaked.

“Oh, crud,” I said. “You’ve really got to get that looked at.”

I really, really didn’t want any more lap time with David, so I put the roof back down and managed to shove him over into the passenger seat. He was heavy, and I quit as soon as he was physically off the driver’s seat, even though his dress shoes were sticking up in the air like flags on a golf course. He was definitely going to wake up with a crick in his neck.

All I could think to do was bring him back to the Inn. I managed to get the car into first gear, eventually, and we growled our way through the quiet streets. The car seemed awfully loud, even for this macho model, and I had a needling worry that I was supposed to change gears at some point, but I’d stalled so many times getting the dumb thing to first that I wasn’t going to touch anything until I got there. Including the brakes.

When I finally pulled in at the Inn’s parking lot, I got hit with a major dose of deja vu. This was how I’d first arrived in Wonder Springs—pulling in at night into this very lot, confused and freaking out after a run-in with Enoch.

Then I startled hard. Because there on the porch, also like on the first night, sat Aunt Helen and Uncle Barnaby, watching me with care.

The difference was that this time, seeing them made me glad.

“Aunt Helen!” I said, shoving my way out of that stupid car. “Aunt Helen, it was Enoch—”

“I know,” she said, standing. Unlike her brother Barnaby, who flaunted a copious white wizard beard and walked around in a Gandalf robe and hat because he claimed it helped him focus, Helen dressed pretty much like a normal middle-aged mom. Yet as she fixed me with the gaze of her wide, dark eyes, so utterly serious compared to her daughter Tina, she radiated an intensity that was far more unnerving than her cosplay companion. “I felt him. Enoch,” she said, and her voice was unusually deep. “Where is he?”

“Across the bridge,” I said. My hands were trembling. “I mean, he’s gone now. But he was chasing me… and then, when he got to the bridge…”

Uncle Barnaby nodded. “The Shield is not breached.”

“But why did you cross?” Helen said. “You knew the peril.”

“Actually, no,” I snapped. “I did not expect the dude to be parked out there waiting for me. I just wanted a break, and this guy offered me a ride—”

“Ah! Nice wheels,” Uncle Barnaby cut in, with a low whistle.

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