Mushing is Murder: Cozy Mystery Tails of Alaska, Book 1 by Benning Patti

Author:Benning, Patti
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Summer Prescott Books
Published: 2019-02-20T00:00:00+00:00

7

By the time she was done answering the questions for the police and had returned the snowmobile to Malcolm and retrieved her car, it was well into the afternoon. She called the diner to make sure everything was under control there, then decided to just go home.

She already knew that her mother would be waiting for her — Cheryl had arrived shortly before the police left, and had told Angie she had dropped her mother off at home. However, she was surprised by the tight hug and warm tea that were waiting for her.

“Oh, Angie, you must have had a horrible day,” her mother said, taking a seat across the table from her. “Dave called Cheryl and told her what happened while we were in the car. I’m so sorry you got dragged into something like this.”

“I wouldn’t have been able to spend the rest of the day at the diner, not without knowing who the lost dogs belonged to. I was terrified that Dad was out there somewhere, hurt and alone.”

“Oh, Angie.” Her mother reached across the table and took her hand. “I’m so sorry. We should never have asked you to come up here. If you had stayed in California, you would never have had to deal with any of this.”

“It’s okay, Mom,” she said. “None of us could have known something like this would happen. I’m glad I came back.”

She gave the older woman a tight smile and patted her hand. She didn’t want either of her parents to feel bad about asking her for help, no matter the fact that she had been daydreaming of California’s beaches every time she stepped outside and saw the snow. What happened to Bill truly wasn’t their fault, and she could have just as easily witnessed a gruesome accident back at her apartment.

“What we really have to focus on right now is how we’re going to tell Dad.”

With a stricken look on her face, her mother nodded. “It’s going to break his heart. The two of them were practically brothers.”

Angie’s nerves only increased as the time passed by, afternoon inching into evening as she and her mother waited for her father to return. I wonder if he’s had any luck, she thought. The dog could be miles away. I’ll help him look tomorrow if he doesn’t find it tonight.

When she finally spotted his truck, with the dog box in the back, pulling up the driveway, it just made her stomach twist even more violently on itself. The prospect of telling her father that his best friend, a man he had grown up with, gone to school with, shared a hobby with for years, had passed away made her want to run back to California and hide in her apartment more than anything else had.

She watched through the window as he parked the truck and opened the dog box in the back, lifting a dog — she couldn’t tell which from this distance — into his arms and carrying it toward the house.

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