Ghostly Rules by K.E. O'Connor

Author:K.E. O'Connor [O'Connor, K.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Cozy paranormal, cozy British mystery, Cozy mystery with animals, cozy humor, Cozy murder, Cozy ghost mystery, cozy mystery, Cozy romance
Publisher: K.E. O'Connor
Published: 2017-07-28T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

“Gold!” Elita sat up with a start, blinking her eyes and looking around the study blearily. “Did you say something about gold?”

I spun around and concealed the desk compartment containing the gold bars. “I wasn’t saying anything.”

Elita’s brow furrowed. “I heard you talking.”

“I might have been muttering to myself. I have a habit of doing that.” I looked at Flipper. “Or talking to my dog.”

Elita smoothed her hair and gave a slight nod. “I was dreaming about Lonnie. He was telling me where he’d hidden the gold.”

“Did he give you any useful clues?”

“It was just a dream. It didn’t make any real sense.” Elita slipped her feet into a pair of fluffy black slippers sitting on the floor by the sofa. “You still want to work here? No change of heart since last night?”

“I do.”

Elita gave me a sharp look. “Why would you do that if you know we’re criminals?”

“Because you aren’t anymore,” I said. “At least, I don’t think you are. It sounds as if Lonnie pursued a criminal lifestyle to provide for everyone else.”

Elita sighed and stretched her arms over her head. “He didn’t do anything for the greater good to begin with. He was a rogue. But then things changed.”

“What happened to make Lonnie change?”

“I like to think I had something to do with it,” said Elita. “And, as you may have noticed, we don’t have any children. There’s no one to inherit the family name and take over the business.”

I hadn’t noticed that. I’d been too busy worrying about my own safety and whether or not there was a killer loose in the house. “You never had a family of your own?”

“We tried for children.” Elita played with a button on her bright red blouse. “For years, and we had a lot of fun trying. But it never happened.”

“Sorry to hear that.”

Elita shrugged. “Although Lonnie never accepted it, he was the reason it couldn’t happen.”

Lonnie zoomed to Elita’s side and shook his head. Looked like he still wasn’t prepared to accept he was the reason they’d never had kids.

“Lonnie wasn’t fertile?” That question earned me an evil glare from Lonnie before he shot away from Elita.

“I had all the tests done, including spending a month in America having some specialist prod me, only for him to tell me what I already knew; I was fit and healthy and able to have children. When they did the same to Lonnie, the results showed he didn’t have any healthy swimmers. But he wouldn’t believe it and kept thinking he could defy the odds, and all the medical knowledge under the sun, and still have a family.”

“Male pride is a strange thing,” I said.

“It’s also a stupid thing,” said Elita. “What was worse, when I got past childbearing age, he decided he needed a younger model, someone who would give him children. As if that made any difference.”

“So he left you for Chelsea.”

Elita nodded, her lips pinching together. “But it didn’t happen with Chelsea either. And I know Lonnie was getting frustrated about that.

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