High Tide Homicide by Tegan Maher

Author:Tegan Maher [Maher, Tegan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Magical Words Publishing
Published: 2020-11-29T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

As soon as we made it to the area behind the tiki, I filled Tempest in on what Mila’d said, being sure not to leave anything out, then asked her to relay it to Blake. She closed her eyes for a few seconds, then opened them again.

“Done,” she said with a decisive nod.

I scrunched my brow. “How could you have possibly told him everything I just told you in that amount of time?”

She shrugged. “I told him it’s probably a transformation potion but that it didn’t look right to her and that she was going to test it and get back to us. All that other junk is useless information that he doesn’t care about or even need to know about. He’s busy. I’m busy. No time to gab.”

I arched a brow at her as I headed around the building, careful to avoid the tiny pastel road biscuits littering the path. Apparently, we had a family of unicorns visiting. Most of the adults were good about doing their business in the designated area, but there wasn’t much we could do about the babies other than patrol and clean them up as necessary. Even though the nuggets were pretty—for what they were, anyway—and smelled like cotton candy, the glitter was a bitch to get off your shoes if you stepped in it.

“And what, exactly, are you busy doing? I get why you wouldn’t want to waste Blake’s time, but we’re sort of at a standstill.”

“Eating,” she declared. “It might not have occurred to your stomach that we haven’t had supper yet, but mine hasn’t forgotten.”

At the reminder, my stomach rumbled. Since she mentioned it, I did feel a little lightheaded. On top of the stress, porting used a lot of energy, and we hadn’t had anything aside from the grilled cheese we’d eaten for lunch.

“Fine,” I said. “We can eat while we talk to Dimitri. Hopefully, he’s seen somebody who might match the description of the guy who was standing outside Andromeda’s room.”

Since the resort was full mostly of faeries and giants, one human-looking guy shouldn’t be hard to find.

“Welcome back,” Dimitri said as he flipped a coaster onto the bar in front of me. “Water or something stronger?”

“Definitely something stronger,” I said.

“Beer or rum fizz?”

I thought for a minute and opted for the lighter drink. It was still hot, and beer sounded heavy. I wanted to fill up on food, not hops, and his specialty cocktail filled the bill. “Rum fizz.”

“Where’s everybody at?” I asked. It was after six, which meant the place was usually in the middle of the dinner rush. Instead, only a few small groups of people were scattered across tables on the patio.

He lifted a shoulder as he set the fizzy golden drink in front of me. “We had a push earlier, but it was mostly a cocktail crowd. It’s pizza night at Marco’s, so maybe that’s where they went.”

Marco’s was the Italian restaurant in the main resort building, and they ran a special on one of their house dishes every couple of weeks.

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