Azure Secrets by Patricia Rice

Author:Patricia Rice
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Book View Cafe

Twenty

Saturday, afternoon

Monty saw Fee’s face pale. He’d been enjoying her smile as she actually ate her food and interacted with others. He knew it was stupid to be watching a Lucy when he was surrounded by normal women in silks and diamonds eager for a romantic wedding romp.

Lucys saw straight through his muddled head and rightfully dismissed him as beefcake.

Instead of flirting with normal, he was wasting his time teasing Fee with knowing glances.

Fee blushed every time she caught him looking, but she wasn’t blushing now. She was staring at the door as if she might be confronted with gun-toting. . .

Gunfire. That hadn’t been the usual pyromaniac shooting off fireworks to celebrate the occasion.

He shoved back from the table. Walker did the same. The others looked up, but Monty held up his phone. “Just checking on Mother.”

Kurt grimaced, and the others followed Kurt’s example and returned to their food and laughter.

Monty headed for the nearest exit, the one leading to the toilets. Walker was already there. He nodded at the front door. “Your girl is heading out with Aaron on her heels.”

“I won’t make it across that floor alive,” Monty countered, knowing a few hundred guests and townspeople stood between him and the main door. “I’ll risk the kitchen first.”

“Good thought. Dinah’s not back there to whack off your ears. Check on who’s in the café and doing what. I’ll meet you in the alley.”

Setting the café up as an open bar had been a debate for months. The wall separating Delphines from the café created an unsocial barrier for a reception, but there had been no choice. Delphines simply didn’t have the space for a bar.

Stomping through the connecting back of the restaurant as if he owned the place, forcing the waitstaff to dance around him, Monty shoved through the swinging door from the kitchen to the café.

Dinah’s booths were half-filled with guests who preferred to drink their dinner. Others spun around on the counter stools, flirting with the bartenders and each other. Fee and Aaron weren’t here and no one seemed aware of the gunfire.

Monty debated returning to the kitchen and going out that exit, but Fee had gone out the front. He needed to see what the Lucys were up to.

Lucys. He was drooling over a woman who could magically potion every person in town with her food. He had to be mad. Maybe she’d dropped magic beans in his salad.

Maybe he really was as stupid as he felt sometimes. But he stepped out on the boardwalk to regard the crowded parking lot—and instantly heard Fee’s frantic cries. Blood rushed to his head. Fingers bunched, he spun in the direction of the sound.

He caught a glimpse of her kneeling on the ground in between two hulking SUVs, ruining her pretty blue dress as she bent over a body on the ground. What the hell had happened?

Fee looked up in anguish and cried Sukey again, looking off to the right, where the damned dog was happily running under parked cars.

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