Elusive Heiress: Bayview Murder Mystery: Laura Seymour Cozy Mysteries and Romantic Adventures (Women Sleuths Cozy Mysteries Series Book 1) by Lauren Berg

Author:Lauren Berg
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2015-03-31T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Laura slipped down to the hotel bar where she'd texted Cain to meet her. He was seated in the same place they'd met earlier, and he seemed to sense her presence before she was there because he turned around to smile at her. After their disastrous attempt at dinner--she was loathe to call it a date because if that was their official first date, any relationship that came out of it was doomed to be a disaster--Cain had been so quiet that she wondered if he even liked her in that way. She felt like such a junior high girl just thinking the thought that she should write him a note asking him if he wanted to be her boyfriend, check an option: yes, no, maybe.

But from the way he smiled at her at that moment, she knew he felt some attraction to her.

When she sat down he asked, "So what was this big news that you couldn't wait to tell me until morning?"

She grinned at his teasing tone and shook her head. "It isn't so much the news as the idea I got. What if we use Amy and Benjamin's relationship to draw him out?"

Cain frowned, his eyebrows knit together, but he slowly nodded. "I'm not sure using your best friend as bait is a good idea, but I admit I don't have a better one. You really think we need to find Benjamin? Couldn't we just go to the police?"

Now Laura frowned back at him. "You seem awfully chicken. I'm the one he tried to kill."

"He pulled a gun on me," Cain protested.

Laura raised her eyebrow and cocked her head to one side. "Sure, but he’ll do anything. Aren't you curious why he did that? His motive for killing Edith just doesn't add up, does it?"

"Whoa, wait a minute. He never admitted to anything. Why are you jumping to conclusions like that?"

Laura couldn't help but stare at Cain in dumbfounded silence. "Um ... because he tried to kill me?"

"Right, but...”

From his tone Laura's suspicions were raised. He was awfully quick to jump to Benjamin's defense despite the fact that she had nearly drowned, and he had been the one to save her. Add to that the fact that he'd gotten to Benjamin before she did, and it almost seemed like the two of them had known each other before this morning. Laura chewed her lower lip. What if Cain was involved in Edith's death somehow? His motivation would be the same as hers. If he got the inside scoop then he'd be able to go just about anywhere he wanted.

But did she think that Cain was really capable of hurting an innocent, old woman or plotting her demise? It was either him or Benjamin, and the other man's motive was just as shifty.

Laura accepted the drink from the bartender that Cain had ordered for her. "Thank you," she said as she forced a smile. "And you're right. In the morning we can go to the police, and take care of this whole thing.

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