Snow Way Out by Emma Ainsley

Author:Emma Ainsley [Ainsley, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Summer Prescott Books
Published: 2023-11-27T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

Megan took a seat on the floor in front of the fireplace in the living room. She turned down the heat an hour after the sheriff’s team left with the body and what was left of the scene was processed. So far, the power had remained on despite a few flickers of the lights. She wrapped herself in a blanket and leaned against the oversized ottoman she had pulled over from the other side of the large room.

She checked her cell phone a couple of times. The battery was charging fine, but it seemed the weather had affected the local cellular towers. She hoped that whatever it was fixed itself soon because she longed to call Trevor and tell him everything that was going on.

Megan had already made up her mind to arrange for a flight out as soon as she was cleared to go. She wanted to go home. Despite the mess she had waiting for her there, nothing could compare to the nightmare she was currently in.

A second after that thought entered her head, she heard a hard knock at the front door. She hesitated before she got up to answer it. The last time she thought she’d heard something at the front door she came face to face with a dead man.

But the knock returned a moment later, this time harder and more insistent than the first time. Megan threw the blanket off of her shoulders and padded across the room to answer it. She could see three figures through the glass, all female, and all living. She didn’t think too long about who it might be. She’d expected law enforcement to return. In fact, there was a possibility the sheriff had sent someone else to her house while he was busy out on the highway with the accident.

When she threw the door open, she was faced with a sixty-year-old woman wearing entirely too much makeup and shoulder-length platinum blonde hair. “Well, aren’t you going to let me in, Meggy?”

Megan’s mouth remained open as her mother and two older sisters breezed into the log cabin past her.

“Oh, how adorable,” her mother squealed. She headed straight for the fireplace and took a seat on the ottoman. “Desiree! Destiny! Come over here and take a seat.”

Megan began to shut the door slowly. A man cleared his throat and pushed the door back open. Megan turned back to him and pulled the door back open all the way while he began hefting armfuls of boxes and luggage into the entry way.

“Tip the man, Megan,” her mother drawled when he finished. “I’m shocked you weren’t ready with at least a twenty for him.” Megan shook her head and numbly located her purse in the kitchen. She pulled a fifty-dollar bill out of her wallet.

“All I have is a fifty,” she said.

“I think that’s entirely appropriate, don’t you? I swear, sometimes I think you are allergic to the southern manners I tried to raise you with, Megan Murphy.”

The man swiped the fifty out of her fingertips and slammed the door behind him.

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