Ghastly Glitch (A Traveling Town Mystery, Book 6) by Ami Diane

Author:Ami Diane [Diane, Ami]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

THE STORM BROKE sometime after dinner but left brooding clouds, ushering in an early evening. Wink returned from her house after retrieving her break-in accouterments that mostly consisted of black clothes.

It was still before nightfall when she arrived back at the inn because they didn’t want to risk being out too late on account of the predators lurking about town.

When she arrived, she apologized, blaming her late arrival on a something-saurus trampling through her yard. Upon hearing this, Rose, ever the host, insisted that Wink stay at the inn the remainder of the time Keystone remained in the Jurassic epoch.

Everyone was still gathered in the kitchen, demolishing a rhubarb pie for dessert, when the trio excused themselves.

“I need their help fixing the fryer in the diner,” Wink explained.

Jimmy’s chair scraped across the floor as he stood. “What’s wrong with it? I’ll lend a hand.”

“No!” Ella and Wink said at the same time.

Wink smoothed out her dark velour tracksuit. How the woman wasn’t melting in this weather was a mystery.

“Did I say fryer? I meant wall. I’m still trying to patch up that hole Flo made.”

Flo was still seated, licking the remnants of pie from her plate. She jabbed her fork in their direction. “At least I didn’t burn your floor.”

“Hey,” Ella said, “that was Patience. Not me.”

Wink guided Ella by the elbow towards the back door, pausing to tap Flo upside the back of her head. “Well, we best get a move on. Don’t want to be out after dark.”

At the table, Rose’s eyes narrowed. “What are you ladies up to?”

“I’m sure we don’t want to know,” Jimmy said.

“Just be safe.” Rose’s hand went to her pearls in that nervous tick she had. “Make sure you take something to protect yourself with.”

“That’s why we’re taking Flo.” Ella jerked her head at the older woman. “She’s the dino chow so we can get away.”

Finally, Flo pushed her plate away and stood. When she hefted her purse from the kitchen island, she grunted and nearly toppled over.

She patted the accessory and said in an ominous voice, “Don’t worry. We’ll be protected.”

Ella let her pass and slipped out the door last, hesitating in the threshold. Both Rose and Jimmy were still watching, concerned lines etched in their foreheads. “What do you think the chances are that she accidentally kills me before a dinosaur does?”

Jimmy coughed while Rose dabbed at her mouth with her napkin.

“Yeah, that’s what I was afraid of.”

Ella quickly caught up to the other two just as they reached the back door to Grandma’s Kitchen.

“Wait, are we actually going inside?”

Wink’s pin curls quivered when she shook her head. “Can they still see us?”

They lingered outside the back of the diner. A swarm of mosquitos and other bugs Ella couldn’t identify swarmed about them as thick as fog.

The picture window in the kitchen of the inn overlooked the lake and not the back of the diner, which sat adjacent to the inn. Ella pointed this out.

They stole down the alley on

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