Booked for Murder (Book 5 of the Lighthouse Inn Mysterys) by Tim Myers

Author:Tim Myers
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: blue ridge mountains, cozy, inn, lighthouse, mystery, north carolina, tim myers, traditional
Publisher: Tim Myers

Chapter 12

As Alex raced for the front door, he nearly collided with the EMS team taking their patient out on a gurney. Alice Parsons and John Sumter had been to the inn before, more than Alex would ever admit to any of his guests. Vince Darcy lay strapped to the gurney, a bloody compress taped to his thigh. The man’s face was ghostly pale.

“What happened?” Alex asked.

Vince said, “I can’t believe it. I was out running and somebody shot me.”

Alex asked, “Did you see who did it?”

Vince shuddered once, then said, “No, I was in the woods, and you know how dense it is. Listen, I need somebody to go tell Laura. She’s in town shopping.”

“We’ll find her,” Elise said as she rushed up beside Alex. “Are you going to be okay?”

“It hurts like a dog, but they tell me I’m going to be fine,” Vince said. “Man, I’m not going to be able to run for a month.”

“Another three or four inches and you wouldn’t have been able to make it back to the inn,” one of the attendants said. “You were lucky.”

“I wasn’t lucky enough for them to miss.”

As they loaded Vince into the ambulance, Alex asked Alice, “Will he be okay?”

“It’s not for me to say, but it looks like the bullet just grazed him.”

“My leg’s killing me, there’s nothing ‘just’ about that,” Vince protested.

Alice shrugged. “It’s probably going to leave a scar, but John’s right; Mr. Darcy, you’re luckier than you realize.”

Alex asked, “Did anybody call Armstrong?”

“One of his deputies is on the way.”

“Thanks for showing up so fast,” Alex said to them as they closed the ambulance door. After the vehicle took off, Alex told Elise, “I’d better go into town and find Laura. Do you want to ride in with me?”

Elise said, “I’d like to, but somebody needs to stay behind and take care of things here.”

Alex nodded. “We can swap jobs if you’d like.”

Elise said, “No thanks, I’d rather not have to tell a guest her husband was shot at the inn.”

“Yeah, you’ve got a point. I’ll be back as soon as I can find her.”

“Call me if you hear anything else about Vince,” she said.

“I promise. And Elise? Maybe you should stay away from cleaning windows this afternoon.”

“You can’t think I’m in danger of being shot, Alex. Surely this was just an unfortunate accident.”

“You’re probably right, but I’d feel better if you stayed inside,” Alex said.

“I will. There’s plenty for me to do around here.”

As Alex drove back to town in search of Laura, he tried to think who might have shot his guest. Could it have been an accident, as Elise clearly thought, some fool plinking cans in the woods without realizing how far his bullets traveled, or was it something more sinister than that? Had Vince, in his incessant jogging around the lands that encircled the inn, stumbled across something he shouldn’t have seen? No, Alex realized it was most likely an accident. After all, there wasn’t anything going on around Hatteras West that he didn’t know about.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.