Mangroves and Murder: An Enchanted Coast Magical Mystery by Maher Tegan

Author:Maher, Tegan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Magical Words Publishing
Published: 2021-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

"What now?" Tempest asked, trotting along beside me as I went back to the bedroom.

I plopped into the rocker beside my bed and brace my elbows against my knees then dropped my head in my hands.

My first order of business was tracking down the werewolves. The best way to do that would be to take a peek into our guest services log and hope that they'd left cell numbers. The idea of teleporting off the resort made me cringe because that meant I'd have to spend hours tracking down the exact addresses, and I was afraid I didn't have that much time.

Fortunately, I had access to those records via the management portal, so I could use my laptop to run them down. “First, we need to find those werewolves. All this ends if they’ll come forward and say Jackson was with them.”

“Then what are you waiting for? We could have this wrapped up in twenty minutes and be on our way.”

She jumped off the bed and scurried toward the kitchen, her tail twitching as she did. With a fresh spring in my step, I followed.

Once in the kitchen, I grabbed my computer from the sideboard where I’d left it and plopped down at the table. It only took me a second to log into the tiki records and track down their names using the room charges they'd racked up the afternoon before. I was frustrated that they’d all checked out, but at least I had their records and could get in touch with them. Even if they were willing to testify over the phone that they’d been with Jackson, that would be enough to stay the process.

The main downside to what I found was that only three of them had charged things to their room while they were at the tiki, at least in the time period that I’d been there and I hadn’t caught their names since I’d been too busy dodging their stupid football and pulling them off each other. That left two unaccounted for, but the three who had made charges had listed their cell phone numbers at check-in. I pulled my phone from my pocket and dialed the first number. I groaned when it went straight to voicemail but figured I had two more shots. Hope faded to discouragement when neither of those picked up either.

I drummed my fingers on my dining room table, thinking. I had two choices. I could either trek off the resort to their hometown in Michigan, or I could stay here and interview Sandra and Xavier. Since I could only teleport to places I'd been, I'd have to use the resort portal to get me to the town and then use human travel to get me to the exact addresses. That was inefficient and possibly unnecessary if I could figure out why Xavier was lying.

Tempests had hopped up on my lap while I was researching but had gotten bored and decided her time would be better spent watching out the window in case Lester decided to come back.

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