Chilled by Death

Author:Dale Mayer [Mayer, Dale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mystery, suspense
ISBN: 9781928122296
Publisher: Valley Publishing
Published: 2015-06-29T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

Stacy stopped at the crest of the hill and breathed deep. Then did it again. She couldn’t believe how stifling the cabin had begun to feel. How difficult the atmosphere. She suspected that with her and Royce gone, there’d be talk about them. As long as no one suspected them for this wine-doping scenario, she was fine with the talk. Expected it even. After all, humans loved to gossip.

“Feel better?” Royce asked quietly.

“Much.” She tilted her head back and let the sun hit her face. “It was getting hard to take in there.”

“I agree.”

She stilled. There was an odd note in his voice. Without trying to make it obvious, she studied his face. Worry tensed his features as he stared blankly ahead. Something was going on behind those magnetic eyes.

“What’s wrong,” she asked.

He opened his mouth to say something, and she cut him off. “Don’t lie.”

The look on his face was both comical and affronted. “Sorry,” she rushed to assure him, “I didn’t mean that quite the way it sounded. I would just prefer to know everything. I can’t deal if I don’t have all the facts.”

In a subtle furtive movement, he checked around them to make sure they were alone. She watched curiously. “What is it?”

“When I went to get your camera bag,” he said, pulling out her makeup bag from inside his coat, “I found this almost under your bed. As if you may have dropped it.”

“My makeup bag?” She frowned. “I thought I left it on my bed.”

“You did. I dumped the contents on the bed so I could use the bag.” He motioned toward it. “Open carefully.”

She unzipped the pouch while he continued to watch the area. And saw the syringe. “Oh my God.”

She blinked several times as she processed the implications.

“Is it possible I was injected with the drugs?” she wondered.

“Possible, but unless you can find an injection site, I doubt it. I figured it was likely the method of getting the drugs in the sealed wine bottles. People might have noticed an uncorked bottle or one that had been opened and re-corked – and only maybe on that issue as with so many of us, they’d have assumed someone else opened it. But no one would have noticed a tiny pinprick through the top of it.”

She closed her eyes. “Shit. That took some planning. And do you think leaving this bit of evidence beside my bed was on purpose? Or did it fall from the perp’s pocket while searching my room?”

With a shrug, he said. “Could be either.”

Now it was her turn to look around the area to make sure they were alone. But she was hoping the police were driving up to ask more questions. Instead, the snowy area was calm, the air still. Nothing moved but the two of them. “We need to get this to the police.”

“I know. I wasn’t so sure I should let the others know what I found.”

“Thank you for that.” She smiled wryly. “And for trusting that I’m not the bad guy here.

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