The Water Witch Cozy Mystery Boxed Set: Four Book Paranormal Cozy Mystery Anthology (Sam Short Boxed Sets 1) by Sam Short

Author:Sam Short
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Sam Short Books
Published: 2017-10-08T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

Mrs Round’s eyes were those of somebody who had not been sleeping well, and her hair was thoroughly neglected. She took a step away from Granny and allowed her arms to drop by her sides. “Please tell Brian to throw the competition,” she urged. “My husband has to win. If he doesn’t win today he won’t retire from pie-eating, and the doctor has told me he won’t be around for more than three years if he carries on like he is. It’s literally life and death that he wins today.”

Granny smiled. “Then he’d better win, hadn’t he? My son has been oppressed his whole life, and a win today would show him that he’s a valuable person. He needs the validation. I must warn you though, Brian can put way food with the best of them — I’d be very surprised if he didn’t give Felix a run for his money.”

Mrs Round scowled. “Felix would have this competition in the bag if they hadn’t changed the rules. He’s trained for eating slowly over a period of time, not for stuffing as many pies as he can in ten minutes. It’s not fair — a change of rules this late in the game must be illegal.”

“It’s only a bit of fun,” said Susie. “Don’t take it so seriously.”

Mrs Round’s face reddened. “My husband’s health is not just a bit of fun!” She turned to Granny. “You’d better hope Felix wins, you have no idea how important this is to me. I’d do anything to make sure my husband has a long life. Anything.”

“That sounds like a threat to me,” said Granny. “And I’d advise against threatening me.”

Mrs Round looked Granny up and down, and rushed away. She stood directly in front of the stage as the compère gave a countdown from ten and declared the competition had started.

Granny handed me her beer and began clapping with the rest of the audience. “Eat! Eat! Eat!” she chanted, urging Brian on, who stuffed a second pie into his mouth as Felix finished his first.

The other four competitors took sips of water between bites, but Felix and Uncle Brian devoured their pies quickly, with the colour returning to Felix’s face as he ate his first proper food in days.

The minutes ticked by, and the competitors ate pie after pie as the compère encouraged them with words of support. As the crowd’s shouts grew louder, Boris tapped me on my leg. “Put Gladys’s beer down here for me, would you, Penelope? All this excitement is making me thirsty.”

I placed the plastic cup on the floor for the goat, and as I stood up straight again, a dizzy sensation made me stumble. Willow caught me with a hand under my elbow. “Are you okay?” she said. “Do you need to sit down?”

I tried to speak, but my throat tightened and my heart bounced against the walls of my chest. Images swirled around my mind and instinct told me that the pictures I was seeing were not conjured up by my imagination — I was having a vision.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.