Between a Rock and a Haunted Place: A Collection of Cozy Paranormal Mystery Romances by Mandy M. Roth

Author:Mandy M. Roth [Roth, Mandy M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Raven Happy Hour, LLC
Published: 2021-07-20T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Hyperventilating seemed like a really good plan. Curt nearly went with it as his mind raced with what Penelope and Kelsey had told him they’d seen in regards to his mate.

The man in the tweed jacket stayed close to Mississippi. “Did he hit you with the van or just the bike?”

“I’m fine, no thanks to Mr. Flashy,” she said, glancing at Curt.

He was at a loss for words.

“Warrick, I’m holding the fate of the world in my hands and you have a curse on your head!” shouted Wilber from inside the van. “Ask the young lady to dinner and then get your butt back in here. We need to get to Hells Gate.”

She tipped her head. “Curt Warrick?”

Curt offered a sexy smile. Now they were getting somewhere. He knew he had more skills with the ladies than were showing. “Yes. Heard about me?”

She snorted. “Oh yeah. Sigmund talks about you. Says you have more money than you know what to do with and that you’re kind of full of yourself. Just what we needed, another rich guy in town.”

Hugh opened the van door. “Sig isn’t wrong. Okay, Curt. The nice young woman doesn’t like you and she’s known you thirty seconds. Now that we’ve established she’s a good judge of character, get in here and drive us to Luc’s before Wilber lets go of the doomsday device here and hugging each other is the least of our worries.”

“Hugging each other?” asked Mississippi.

Curt licked his lips. “It’s a long story.”

Petey beamed. “I fed ’em my dirty bathwater and now they won’t stop hanging on each other. Hugh held Warrick all night. I got a picture of it on my phone if you want to see it. Sent it to Hugh’s wife already. Got me a good one of Leo and Jake too. Kelsey has a copy of it now.”

Mississippi looked downward and then stiffened. Her gaze snapped up and on to him. “You broke Shirley!”

“Shirley?” he asked, fearing he’d actually hit and killed someone.

She pointed down.

Petey bent and yanked on something. He came up with a mangled bicycle. There was a smashed wicker basket on the front of it. “Safe to say Shirley is dead. Warrick is a bike killer. I once knew a serial killer.”

Ned put his hands on Mississippi’s shoulders. “There, there. It was only a bike. It could have easily been you with how careless that young man was bein’. Shifters.”

“You keep taking jabs at shifters, Ned, and I’m going to take you out back and show you where a bear goes in the woods,” said Petey, putting up his dukes. “You know I can. I’ve done it to you before. Your hocus-pocus can’t stand up against my raw manliness.”

Mississippi yelped and pushed between the men.

Curt rushed forward and did the same, leaving his body pressed close to the woman’s. In an instant his body was responding, leaving no room for interpretation on what he thought of her. He stiffened and hoped she didn’t notice.

She brushed against the evidence and spun around to face him, her eyes wide, her mouth falling open.

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