Mission Inn-possible 06 - Chocolate Chills by Rosie A. Point

Author:Rosie A. Point
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2021-05-26T16:00:00+00:00

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By the time I had debriefed my grandmother on my findings, Josephine had vacated her table in the dining room. Lauren was busy with the washing up and insisted that I take a break and a stroll around the inn’s grounds because I was ‘giving her a hernia just seeing the stress on my face.’

That suited me fine.

Gamma and I linked arms and proceeded upstairs. Neither Kayla nor Josephine was in their rooms.

While I’d left the diary in its place under the bed—after taking photos for evidence, of course—I had removed the necklace. It was a crucial clue, and Gamma was certain that the pea-sized pill would fit the gap in its pendant.

“Let’s try the yard,” Gamma said. “They ought to be somewhere in the grounds. I doubt they’ve gone far.”

“How can you be sure?”

“They haven’t gone out much since the murder,” Gamma replied. “I’ve been keeping an eye on guest movements for your sake.”

Because we couldn’t be sure who was a double agent. Any of the guests might’ve been working for Kyle.

“They don’t talk to each other much,” Gamma said, “but they do spend an awful lot of time out in the garden or under the trees near the creek.”

My grandmother and I affected a relaxed attitude and wound down the stairs and out into the sunlight. Inside, I was a mess of emotion. I hadn’t talked properly to my boyfriend in days, and he didn’t seem that interested in engaging in conversation with me either. He was angry, and I would give him his space until he was ready to talk.

Besides, it gave me more time to figure out what on earth was going on at the Gossip Inn.

“There.” Gamma nodded toward the trees around the side of the inn.

Josephine and Kayla Wart squared off under them, not too far away from the inn’s greenhouse—Smulder wasn’t inside, at least, and his work boots had been abandoned in the soil outside it.

The twin sisters gesticulated and yelled at one another.

Gamma and I marched across the lawn toward them.

“—done is for your safety! Why can’t you appreciate that?” Josephine thundered.

“Oh please, Jo, do you think I’m dumb? I know that you’re always interfering in my life because you’re jealous of me.”

“Jealous? Jealous?” Josephine was incredulous. “Of what? Your wanton lack of respect for everyone and everything? Your flighty behavior and—?”

“You’re jealous because people like me better than you.”

“You little—” Josephine grabbed a handful of her sister’s ridiculous tower of leaning hair and tugged.

Kayla let out a terrific shriek and grasped at her roots. “Let go! Let go of me! You evil—”

“Let’s break this up, Charlotte,” Gamma whispered.

We separated, and I made for Kayla while my grandmother slipped in behind Josephine. Gamma pinched two fingers over Josephine’s wrist, and the woman squealed and instantly let go of Kayla.

I fastened my hands around Kayla’s upper arms and held her in place, in case she decided she wanted to strike back at her twin.

“Ow!” Josephine yowled, holding her wrist. “What did you do to me? I’ll sue, I’ll—”

“Don’t be absurd,” Gamma replied.

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