Cruise Magic: A Humorous Cruise Ship Cozy Mystery (Cruise Ship Cozy Mysteries Book 14) by A.R. Winters

Author:A.R. Winters [Winters, A.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-11-11T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

“Ithink we need to start with Beau’s cabin,” Cece said, keeping her voice uncharacteristically quiet as we rode the elevator back up to the atrium. “With this new information, I think we sort of have to check if it could help clear Milly.”

“Good,” I nodded. “Because that’s exactly what I was thinking, too. Scary how much we’re starting to think alike.”

“Isn’t it?” She grinned. “I’m not sure which of us should be more worried.”

I had to laugh because she was absolutely right about that. Even though Cece and I had been friends before—and still had plenty of differences between us, for sure—I felt like the one benefit of the investigation so far was that she and I had become even closer.

I trusted her more than I ever would have before, and I hoped she felt the same way about me.

“We just need to make a quick stop at my room,” I said. “And then we can be on our way.”

When she gave me a questioning look, I mouthed the words, “Secret keycard.”

“Oh, right.” She nodded. “Yeah, we’ll definitely need that.”

“It’s only supposed to be for emergencies, but I think this still counts, don’t you?”

“If this isn’t an emergency, I don’t know what is.” She raised a brow as we made the short walk to my room. “I could stop at the duty-free shop and get us some emergency rum, too. It could be considered medicinal after the morning we’ve had.”

I gave her a stern look even though I really wanted to laugh again. And I couldn’t fault her for trying, since that meeting with Alan and the captain really had started our day out on the wrong foot.

Things were starting to look up, though, and we were still on the clock, no matter how tempting a little rum might have been.

“Let’s just stick with the keycard and checking out Beau’s room for now,” I answered. “We can always have some non-emergency celebratory rum later tonight if the rest of the day goes well.”

“Boring.” She sighed but stayed by my side instead of detouring to the duty-free shop, so that felt like a win.

After a quick detour to my room and then a long walk back across the ship and up several decks, we were finally standing in front of Beau’s door.

I hesitated for a moment, knowing that once we were inside his room, there was no going back. We would be disobeying direct orders from the captain and Alan, and there would be consequences if word got out.

Serious consequences that I wasn’t ready to fully consider.

“Go on,” Cece nudged me. “Let’s get in there before anyone catches us standing here.”

It was the last-minute push I needed to swipe my emergency keycard and push the door open.

The room smelled musty from being closed up for several days, and there was laundry scattered on the floor—no shirts, though, unsurprisingly—but no signs of a struggle or anything really out of place.

It just looked like a single guy’s room. Like he’d just stepped out for a few minutes.

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