Elvis and the Devil in Disguise (A Southern Cousins Mystery With Bonus Charmed Cat Mystery) by Peggy Webb

Author:Peggy Webb
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: best friends, female sleuths, southern fiction, humorous mystery, dog mystery, elvis, small town mystery, cozy mystery series, clean and wholesome
Publisher: Peggy Webb

Chapter 14

Elvis’ Opinion on Everything

Well, bless’a my soul! Let me turn my back for one minute, and the whole Valentine family is steppin’ out of line. First Lovie drops this bombshell that she and Rocky are getting married in three days and adopting this kid off the streets, and then I find out I have to share my pink pillow with him.

Lesser dogs would have asked why me, Lord, but yours truly has more class than that and twice as much sense. As it turned out, Lovie and Callie insisted that Pete had to sleep in a real bed--this great big canopied thing that might have belonged to Marie Antoinette. So I ended up spending the night like royalty on a feather mattress so soft I was glad to let Pete hog my own personal pillow.

I’m happy to report that nobody’s head got chopped off. The only consequence of our sleeping arrangements is that this morning Pete’s hair smells like eau de dog. On the upside, I see how I might cajole my way into bed with the little short bald person when he joins the Jones household. Or she, as the case may be.

The great thing about getting up in the morning with a short person, even if Pete has more hair than I do, is that he bounds everywhere he goes, and I get to bound right along with him. There’s something joyful about moving around that way. Everybody ought to try it.

Except Callie, of course. I trot my handsome self over to check on my human mom. She’s in her element this morning, glowing with good health and surrounded by women who are all talking at once about Lovie’s surprise engagement and her wedding. Move over, ladies, the expert has arrived. I said it all in 1969 when I stood in American Studies in Memphis and crooned “Without Love (There is Nothing).”

A swirl of activity surrounds the chatter. Grace is cooking pancakes like there’s no tomorrow, Pearl is hunched over her laptop, Fayrene is holding forth about how “ravenous” Lovie will look in her wedding dress, and the bride-to-be, herself, is on the phone telling her daddy the news.

I don’t have to use my radar to ears to know that Charlie is thrilled. The minute he realized Rocky was serious about Lovie, he dug up everything there was to know about the man. Before Rocky became a world-renowned architect, he was a bouncer in Las Vegas where his dearly departed mom, Bubbles Malone, was a showgirl. His size, skill and track record got him noticed by people with influence, and he ended up being body guard to three governors, first Nevada, then Texas and Louisiana. Former governors now, but still, when Rocky calls, there’s a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on.

Listen, I’m a big-hearted dog. I’m proud to give credit for that song to Jerry Lee Lewis.

“Daddy, Rocky just drove up and I have to go. Are you sure you want to make that long drive? I don’t see how we’ll be doing anything in three days except standing before a JP.

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