Haunted Halloween: A Mia Watson Cruise Ship Cozy Mystery (Mia Watson Cruise Ship Mysteries Book 4) by Gwen Taylor & Jen Booker

Author:Gwen Taylor & Jen Booker [Taylor, Gwen]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Blue Castle Romances
Published: 2023-10-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Fourteen

I woke with a start and squinted against the morning sun streaming in from the giant windows. If the sun was shining…

I checked my watch and was surprised to find it was a little past eight.

Despite my mind what-iffing with every terrible scenario it could conjure, I had fallen into a dreamless slumber. But now, somewhat refreshed despite the few hours I had gotten, I needed to get moving.

I wasn’t the only one itching to get back to work. The ghost hunters were agitating, but I assumed they were more concerned with getting footage for their channel. Most of the other passengers had begun to stir, as well. The rich aromas of coffee and bacon wafted up, momentarily distracting me and causing alarming sounds to issue from my stomach.

Edie gave me a little poke with one finger.

“What?” I brushed my wayward hair from my face with my fingers and stared at her, waiting. She didn’t say a word, just tilted her head toward the library.

Not far from us, at the sideboard, Kevin saw, too, and excused himself from a woman telling him about her distant Irish cousins. She was either slightly hard of hearing or lacked an inside voice, because, from famine to genealogy, I was learning nearly as much as Kevin was.

He walked over, camera at ready. “Are we going back into the tunnel, or what?”

I dragged myself upright and tugged at my wrinkled clothes. “We were supposed to.” I looked around the full room, but the part of we that was supposed to let me have the diary and take part in the search was nowhere to be found. Where was he?

Kevin read my mind. “If you’re looking for Brady, I saw him and Combs talking to Seamus and Liam in the hallway.”

Edie, looking too put together for a woman who had barely slept, swiped some lipstick over her lips and smacked them together. “Was it about the tunnel or the–?”

“You found one of the tunnels? Good on ya.”

The three of us turned to look at the woman Kevin had been talking to. She must not have been ready to lose her audience, because she’d tailed Kevin close enough to hear our conversation.

She seemed excited, her bright, sharp eyes watching our reactions.

“One of the tunnels?” Edie asked.

“Oh, yes, there are a few of them, but I’m guessing you found the entrance in the library.That goes to the largest one. There is another one that goes from the kitchen to the coach house and a third in the drawing room that once went down to the caves leading out to sea but that one caved in about two hundred years ago. And they all meet up in the middle somewhere.”

She’d barely paused for breath in her excitement to share her knowledge.

I considered that new information for a moment. Had Brady and I found the second one, leading to the kitchen, or was that part of the first? I hadn’t seen any way to a coach house. “What else do you know about these tunnels?”

The older woman smiled like the Cheshire cat.

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