Murder without Mercy by Tegan Maher

Author:Tegan Maher [Maher, Tegan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Magical Words Publishing
Published: 2020-08-20T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

I slept like a log, and when I woke up the next morning, things didn’t look quite as stressful as they had the day before. I’d also made a boatload of money the night before, which would go nicely toward a new pair of boots. I always hated spending so much money, but I sure did love my designer boots. I didn’t spoil myself with many things, but since I’d gotten to a place where I could afford spending a little mad money every once in a while, boots were one of my favorite splurges.

I shuffled to the kitchen and kicked on the coffeepot, then popped in a blueberry cobbler coffee pod and leaned against the counter. The smell of coffee brewing slowly made its way to my sleep-addled brain. I added a blurp of milk and a half-teaspoon of sugar, then took it the table and pulled up Wizards Unite on my phone.

The game had become a habit, and I enjoyed playing it while I had my coffee. It had taken the place of my news apps because, frankly, the news had become either so maddening or so terrifying that I’d stopped reading it. WU was a nice escape, and the animations made me smile.

Heavy footsteps thudded down the stairs, and Hunter popped into the kitchen.

“Mornin’ beautiful,” he said, then dropped a kiss on my temple on his way past. “Catching anything good?” he asked. He teased me about the game, but only in a lighthearted way.

“Meh, a couple blast-ended skewts and a Marauder’s Map,” I replied, running my fingers over my screen to capture another foundable. “The skrewts are funny, though. They fart fire so hard that it propels them around the screen when you catch them.”

He laughed and shook his head. “Sometimes I swear you’re a twelve-year-old in a really hot adult chick’s body.”

I flapped a hand at him and took a drink of my coffee. “It has nothing to do with age. Farts are always funny, and if they’re made of fire and pushing a big rhino-lookin’ thing around, they’re hilarious.”

He raised a brow at me as he popped a caramel-mocha pod into the coffee maker. I’d spoiled him since he’d moved in, and now he was as big a coffee snob as I was, at least at home. Not that either of us had anything against a good, strong cup of regular old Joe at the diner.

“I’m gonna pretend I know what you’re talking about and just leave you to it,” he said. “I’ll stick to Reddit.”

“Hey! I still love it, too,” I said. “But there are only so many hours in a day I can play on my phone. I have to prioritize.”

We finished our coffee in relative silence, just enjoying each other’s company. I wasn’t a morning person by any stretch of the imagination, so that was about as much as I could handle. It had been one of the biggest adjustments for me since he’d moved in because he most definitely was a morning person.

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