The Lurid Possibility of Murder : A Severine DuNoir Historical Cozy Adventure (The Mysteries of Severine DuNoir Book 5) by Beth Byers

Author:Beth Byers [Byers, Beth]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-12-27T00:00:00+00:00

They reached home by dawn and Severine took the tea that Bernadette pressed on her as well as the pain medicine the doctor at the hospital gave her. She changed into pajamas and found Bernadette appearing with poultices. Her bruised thigh, ribs, and wrists were wrapped with foul smelling things. She ended up holding the poultice against her split and bruised lip and then the two of them sat side-by-side with Lisette at the end of the bed.

“I went to the old neighborhood,” Lisette said. She laughed low and then added, “When we couldn’t find you, I thought maybe I could get someone to tell me where Landon was, and that he might know where we could find you.”

Severine closed her eyes in horror. “Lisette—no…he hurt you. He isn’t going to be appealed to. What were you thinking?”

“I wasn’t alone,” Lisette added. “Fabian’s little brother, Constantine, went with me. He’s even bigger than Fabian.”

“Then we should hire him too,” Bernadette replied. “We’ll give him two guns and have him trail behind Severine.”

Lisette nodded, and Severine winced in horror at the idea. Things were escalating too quickly. What would happen when they were able to make contact with this investigator that Andre suggested, and how could they even trust someone recommended by him in the first place?

Severine’s head was aching and the morphine the doctor gave her was sending her to sleep. Slurring, Severine said, “You’re important, Lisette. Don’t risk yourself…”

She slipped into sleep, and when she woke in the late afternoon, she wasn’t surprised to see Lisette and Bernadette still there. Severine lay on the side of the bed, with Anubis sprawled in the middle of it, and Bernadette on the other side. Lisette had taken the wise spot at the end of the bed with Kali and Persephone somehow curling around her.

Severine pushed herself up, winced at the pain in her side and then stumbled to the bathroom and started a bath with Bernadette’s herb mix and Epsom salts. Severine slipped into the water the moment it had gone from cold to too hot. She was going to cook her bruises and the stiffness from the previous day’s trials.

The pain from her bruises was there, but adding a distinct flavor of its own was muscle pain. Had she ever squatted for so long as when she’d waited for a way to sneak around? Had her shoulders ever worked as hard as they had when she’d pulled herself onto that fire escape ladder and then jumped between the buildings?

Severine shivered at the memory of nothing underneath when she jumped. She hadn’t realized that there was a different sensory experience in jumping and knowing nothing was under you. Of feeling the weight of the wind and the air far below you. It might have been in her imagination, but Severine felt she’d never feel quite so lax about high places again.

Severine examined her face in the mirror. The bruises had darkened and shifted in color.

“It’s the normal process,” she told herself, but seeing them brought back the day before.

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