Adventurer Gone by Beth Byers & Bettie Jane

Author:Beth Byers & Bettie Jane [Byers, Beth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

The next morning, Ro and Hettie escaped the hospital like thieves, refusing to wait for Dr. Hale to return after abandoning them to bathe and change.

Hettie settled the account while Ro picked at her bloodied blouse.

“I need to bathe for a year,” Ro announced.

“You do have dead Herbert on you,” Hettie said, eyes shielded from the light. Morphine was giving her a wicked hangover, and the usually kind Hettie had demon’s eyes and a tendency to snap.

“Ro,” Hettie said once they were in the auto, “I realize that Detective Truman has a fabulous set of shoulders and a rather clever smile, but he’s impossible. Accusing us of being drunks. The nerve. Just because I was batting at invisible flying vermin and you were holding your head on your shoulders. I’m going to need you to obsess over someone else.”

Ro froze, staring in accusation. “There’s a reason why we always call Dr. Hale.”

“There’s a reason you called Truman instead of Scotland Yard.”

Hettie and Ro eyed each other until the auto pulled up outside of Hotel Cristina. After ordering tea, they made their way to Hettie’s rooms.

“Until an actual body shows up,” Hettie said as they entered, “the detective won’t take us seriously. We need to discover Herbert’s body and prove to that…that…rodent! Grounded, oversized, disgusting rodent—that we aren’t delusional or drunk.”

“That is unfortunate,” Ro said, imagining herself trying to hold her head on her shoulders. She put both hands to the side of her head and asked, “Like this?”

Hettie nodded as they walked into the hotel. Ro paused in the first few steps near a large mirror and examined herself clutching her head.

“You were quite insistent it felt better that way.” Hettie’s dry tone was enough for Ro to shoot her a dark look. “Truman cursed when you wouldn’t stop. I believe it was a very derogatory, ‘bloody hell.’”

Ro groaned. “If we didn’t have a pact, he would have been on my list of men to consider chasing, only for fun of course. I must have been quite out of my head last night. I don't remember much after we crashed. Well, after you crashed. If we are being honest.”

“Probably for the best,” Hettie said briskly, patting Ro on the back. “You did land on the body. Remember darling, you still have dead Herbert on you.”

Ro glanced up and they had an eye-to-eye heart-to-heart before Ro dropped her hands. “I look ridiculous.”

Hettie snorted. “We weren’t even drinking. Don’t forget that his body was cold and there was knife coming from his chest. Unless we had a blade mounted on the motorcycle, sharp edge out, we are quite in the clear.”

“In between torturing Dr. Hale and poisoning him with spicy noodles, I was thinking about what would I do if you’d suffered long-term head injury?”

Ro laughed, also relieved to feel herself again. “I’ll tell you what you’ll do should we ever find ourselves in the predicament again. You’ll take me on adventures, you’ll tell me how wonderful everything is. You’ll buy

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