Fangs and Frenemies: A Cozy Paranormal Mystery by Sierra Cross

Author:Sierra Cross [Cross, Sierra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Enigmatic Books
Published: 2023-02-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Twelve

Ichecked my lipstick in Trixie’s dusty mirror, then hopped out and locked her, more out of politeness than any real fear that someone in The Drunken Barrel’s parking lot would steal her.

“Get that Me-Time, girl!” she called out to me as her engine cooled. “You look amazing, but not in a try-hard way.”

“Thanks, Trixie.”

Feeling a bit guilty for preferring the sleek, phony-sounding version of her, I fluffed my hair one last time and headed inside to meet The Help.

The last twenty-four hours had been intense, and then some.

When the police arrived on the scene outside Java Kitty, they didn’t just wrap up Ashlee’s body and bag up forensic evidence. They blocked off the building, turned it into a temporary police station, and spent hours individually questioning every single person inside, including us, Kade, Elton, and Cindra, and her two dates.

Predictably, a café full of people was one too many to keep a secret. Someone must have snuck out a tweet, because within a half hour of my calling the cops, reporters from both small and major news outlets had swarmed the place. Ignoring Elton’s heartfelt entreaties to “respect a community space,” the pack of them began rolling film and shoving microphones in people’s faces. I couldn’t blame them, really. Dead, rich blonde found “trashed” in an idyllic beachside town? It was all too easy to see it—and us—as the juicy headline of tomorrow’s papers.

Fortunately, Britt applied her powers of compulsion to ordering the press to leave and destroy their own footage. They’d still have a story, no doubt, but it’d be a lot more vague with the details and that was a good thing for the three of us.

I had to admit vampire powers were handy to have at our disposal.

Though if I ever found myself unclear on what I’d been doing the last five minutes and feeling inexplicably giddy, I was gonna be mad.

The three of us were in the police station till 2 AM because Gantry kept us in separate rooms and kept going back to check our stories a million times before he reluctantly released us to go home. From the slant of the questions, it was clear they were trying to pin down the time of death and whether Ashlee had been murdered at Java Kitty, or if her body had just been dumped there.

So to speak.

Bryson had texted me this morning to say he too had been called in for further questioning, and I knew Gantry took an extra-long time grilling Kade as well. No arrests had been made, but Max was fearful that the axe would soon come down on her brother.

I was just as fearful about Bryson, though I had no doubt he was innocent.

Now that the pressure was on Gantry to find the killer, time was running out for our investigation to bear fruit.

After the craziest night of my life—vampires, naked shifters, the corpse of my bully, mediocre brownies—I’d expected to be too tired to make it in to work. But to

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