The Inn at Holiday Bay: Portent in the Pages by Kathi Daley

Author:Kathi Daley [Daley, Kathi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kathi Daley Books
Published: 2021-08-09T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

“Agatha said someone new would come into my life,” Annabelle informed me the following afternoon.

“She did? Did she happen to say who’d be coming into your life or when you should expect them?”

She frowned. “No. She just said that someone new would be coming into my life, and I should expect a tide of feeling to accompany this meeting. You don’t think it’s something bad, do you?”

“Probably not. A tide of feeling does sound sort of overwhelming, but I suppose it might be a tide of good feeling. Do you want peanut butter or cheese with your crackers?”

“Peanut butter, please.”

Annabelle and Jeremy had just returned from town, where Jeremy had picked Annabelle up from school and then had taken her to visit Agatha at her fortune-telling booth. When they’d returned, Jeremy had offered to help the four author stalkers carry the bags of goodies they’d purchased while in town today up to their suites, and Annabelle had come into the kitchen looking for a snack. Georgia was in town taking care of errands of her own, and I didn’t have a lot of time before I had to get ready for the evening event, so I’d settled on offering crackers as a snack.

“We do have that family checking in today,” I reminded Annabelle. “They have a boy a year older than you and a girl a year younger. Maybe one of our guests will be the new person coming into your life that Agatha was referring to.”

She dipped her cracker into a blob of peanut butter and took a bite. “Maybe. But we get new guests all the time. It seems like for a fortune to be a fortune, it should be different than what you already know about and are expecting.”

I supposed Annabelle had a point.

“Is Shelby coming over to do your hair?” she asked.

I nodded. “In fact, Shelby should be here any minute. I wanted to hop in the shower before she got here, so I think I’ll head over to the cottage. If she shows up at the inn, please tell her to meet me over there.”

“Can I watch?”

I screwed the lid back on the peanut butter jar. “Sure, if you want to. I’m not sure how interesting it will be, but Shelby is really good with hair and makeup, so it might be entertaining.”

“I’ll come over after she gets here,” Annabelle said. “Do you know when Georgia will be back from town?”

“She had a bunch of errands to run to get ready for the Harvest Festival tomorrow, but I’m sure she’ll be back in plenty of time to get things ready for dinner.”

“Is the grouchy lady going to be here again?”

By grouchy lady, I knew Annabelle was referring to Angelica Beauregard, who’d complained all through dinner the previous evening. I was still trying to figure out how a piece of meat could be both too juicy and too dry at the same time, but according to Angelica, that was exactly what Georgia’s roast had been. Of course, in reality, the meat had been delicious, and the other guests had loved it.

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