Witchy Wednesday: A Paranormal Cozy Mystery (A Tabitha Chase Days of the Week Mystery Book 1) by Denise Jaden

Author:Denise Jaden [Jaden, Denise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-02-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

“What is it with those crystals?” I asked myself the moment Detective Thom disappeared down the dock. I made my way into the boat cabin as I thought it over. They couldn’t just be about a communicative cat, could they? And why would the detective have come here to see if I knew anything about them?

Maybe they think you have special powers, like Lizzie. Maybe they thought you placed the crystals at the scene of the crime and cast a spell.

This made me laugh. Sherlock looked up at me from the loveseat, as if waiting for my answer. But what if my dreams did mean something? What if this magic I was experiencing was no joke?

Still, I was quite sure I hadn’t cast a spell on Maple May that had brought her death. When I glanced over, Sherlock had moved from the loveseat to the full box of detective novels. He pawed over them, sniffing at each one.

“Is there an answer in one of those?” I asked.

He didn’t look up or stop sniffing. Remembering the way he’d pawed through a book the other night, I figured it couldn’t hurt to help him out, even if it undid some of my packing.

I placed him aside for a moment and pulled the novels out one by one, placing them on the floor of the boat. Sherlock continued sniffing and opening books, but as he quickly moved from one to another, I could tell he wasn’t finding anything noteworthy.

I sat back and surveyed the boat, which still needed a ton of work on both the inside and the outside. It was already Monday, and I’d gone ahead and made a dinner appointment—a date—for tomorrow night, so the next item I had on my agenda was either calling my dad or calling my boss.

I chose my dad first, not because he was any less threatening or easier to talk to, but I wondered if I could somehow get him to work his senator magic on my boss.

My dad answered his cell on the fourth ring, which meant he was busy, and the sounds of his office filled the background. “How’s the boat coming, Tabitha? Tell me you have good news.”

“I do,” I offered in my brightest tone. “As I said, it needs a lot of work, but I’ve found a local mechanic who offered to do a lot of the work for just the cost of supplies.”

A pause and then, “Why would he do that?”

Right. I should have prepared my words a little better and known Dad would be suspicious of every little bit of small-town kindness. “Oh, he’s the nephew of the man who owns the marina here. He’s in school and needed a project to do for his practicum.” I hoped phrasing it this way would make my dad assume it was some kind of trade school the way I had.

“Did you write up a contract for him?”

The one part about real estate that my dad had complimented me on again and again was my adeptness with learning how to draft contracts.

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