The Rebel Cowboy's Quadruplets by Tina Leonard

Author:Tina Leonard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-09-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

“I don’t know what got into me, but I know it’s the right thing to do, if all of you believe it’s a good idea to bring the Haunted H back,” Mackenzie told the people gathered in her kitchen. “I realized that this ranch isn’t just mine—it’s Bridesmaids Creek’s, too. A lot of people have happy memories of this place, and I want my daughters to share those, as well as your children and grandchildren.”

She pushed away the only bad memory she had of the Hanging H and looked at Frog, Sam, Squint, Suz, Jade, Betty and plenty of other townspeople who had showed up for the meeting.

“We’ll all help,” Jane Chatham said. “Let’s open on a Sunday night, when our shops and diners are closed in town, so we can all be here. I, for one, look forward to celebrating the grand opening!”

“Good idea,” Madame Matchmaker said. “Let’s start small, get our feet wet. Not overpromise at first. It took your parents years to get the Haunted H built up to being the best children’s harvest fun around.”

“Agreed. Good idea.” Mackenzie nodded. Suz grinned, delighted by Mackenzie’s change of heart, and waved Haven’s fist at her mother. Justin held Hope, Monsieur Matchmaker had Heather tucked into his arms and, for some reason Frog had ended up with Holly. Since Frog was wedged in as tight to Suz as he could get, maybe it wasn’t all that surprising he’d ended up with a baby.

“What about the dead man?” Daisy’s voice called from the back. “No report was ever filed on how he died. How do we know that doesn’t happen again? It was a real black eye on Bridesmaids Creek, and we don’t want another, bigger, black eye.”

The room went deathly silent. A dark cloud seemed to rush past Mackenzie’s eyes. “Why would anyone else die here?”

“We never knew what killed him. Could have been food poisoning. Could have been murder,” Robert Donovan said.

Since she’d opened the meeting to anyone in BC who might be interested in learning more about the Haunted H reopening, Mackenzie wasn’t all that shocked that the Donovans had showed up. Justin winked at her, fortifying her resolve.

“Food inspections are done routinely. It wasn’t food poisoning.”

“I’ll say it wasn’t!” Jane Chatham hopped to her feet. “Since my restaurant provides fifty percent of the food that comes to the haunted house, I sure hope you’re not accusing me, Daisy Donovan!”

“Nor my cooking,” Betty Harper said. “If Jane does half, I’m sure I contributed around twenty percent. Most of my ingredients are organic or grown by me and prepared by me.” She stared around the room. “There’s not a person in this room who has ever complained of food problems from my cooking!”

“Someone killed him,” Robert said, throwing his weight around as usual. “And it didn’t take too much digging to find out that the cause of death was undetermined on the death certificate.”

“How would you know?” Sheriff Dennis McAdams said. “Death certificates can only be ordered by the family.

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