The Miss Fortune Series: Aloha, Y'All (Kindle Worlds Novella) (The Mary-Alice Files Book 4) by Frankie Bow

Author:Frankie Bow [Bow, Frankie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-02-27T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

The next morning, Mary-Alice was awakened by a scream from the direction of the garden. She looked out her back window to see Fortune, in sweats and a tank top, bounding through the garden in the direction of the scream. Mary-Alice knew that the safest course of action would be to stay indoors, but she was worried about Fortune. What was that girl thinking, running out there like that?

Mary-Alice dressed and headed out in the direction she’d seen Fortune going. She found Fortune standing with Nadia and a few of the neighbors she recognized from the previous night’s luau. They were back behind the garden, at the edge of the jungle.

On the ground lay the handsome Jodie Gordon. A woman was kneeling next to him.

“Oh my goodness, is he okay?” Mary-Alice asked, and then felt silly. If he were okay, he wouldn’t be lying there, perfectly still, surrounded by his confused-looking neighbors.

“I can’t find a pulse,” The woman kneeling by him said.

“I already called 9-1-1,” Nadia said. “Although I don’t believe it’ll do him much good now, poor man.”

No one wanted to be the first to leave the dead man’s side, so the neighbors stood around awkwardly until they heard the whoop of a siren and a crunch of gravel.

“Let’s go inside,” Fortune was next to Mary-Alice. “Let the professionals handle it. We don’t need to mix in.”

“What happened?” Mary-Alice asked as she followed Fortune into the house. “He didn’t look injured at all.”

“I don’t know,” Fortune said. “It’s strange, isn’t it?”

Fortune disappeared into her room and shut the door behind her.

Poor thing, Mary-Alice thought. She’s probably never seen a dead body before.

Mary-Alice repaired to her own room to get some reading done. She was absorbed in the doings of Inspector Ian Rutledge when a sharp rap on the door broke the spell.

“Come in,” Mary-Alice called out.

Fortune opened the door.

“Jodie Gordon was dead on arrival.” Fortune pulled the chair over from the window and sat down on it backwards.

“Oh dear. How did the poor man die?”

“They don’t know yet. But my family’s worried, and they want me—us—to move down to town. They’re afraid this place might not be safe.”

“So we need to pack up again?”

“Yeah. Sorry about that. The good news is, there’s an apartment right in Hilo town that’s ready for us to move in. Nadia’s driving down to the farmers’ market tomorrow morning, so she can give us a ride.”

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