A Little Town Called Mercy (The Guardians Series 1 Book 6) by Wendy Saunders

Author:Wendy Saunders
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Tags: Mercy
Publisher: Amazon.com
Published: 2018-10-31T00:00:00+00:00

8.

Shelley’s eyes narrowed in concentration, the tip of her tongue caught between her teeth as she tried to pipe a straight line of frosting onto the cake. Standing back to admire her work, she smiled. It wouldn’t win any prizes, but Miller would love it.

Jackson had offered to have Liddy Mayberry make Miller’s birthday cake, but Shelley wouldn’t hear of it. She’d been planning his cake for weeks, even before her life with Stuart had blown up and she’d ended up pretty much moving in with her favorite guys.

In the last few days life at the Salted Bone had once again settled down. The spirits appeared to be keeping to themselves. Whatever Olivia had done seemed to be holding for the moment. Slowly people had started drifting back into the pub, half of them content to live in denial and the other half so used to strange goings on in Mercy they didn’t bat an eyelid at an alleged haunting.

Picking up the small candle Shelley hummed absently to herself as she placed it on the cake.

Now that the spirit problem seemed to be under control, and after much deliberation, they’d decided to go ahead with Miller’s birthday party. Downstairs the pub would soon be filled with all their friends; Olivia and Theo with their two gorgeous babies, Jake and Roni, Louisa, Tommy and their son Jace, even Mrs Bailey, who’d really mellowed out and given up her mantle as town busybody since the sad death of her husband. Surprisingly enough, even the rude travel reporter Dominik Savage was attending.

He was something of an enigma. Polite, mildly spoken and often blunt, he could come across as a real asshole with a chip on his shoulder the size of New Mexico, but every so often there was a glimpse of something else underneath all of his sarcasm. Something that Jackson obviously warmed to.

Even after the Orthodontist’s convention had cleared out of town, with their white dazzling smiles, Dominik had flat out refused to move into the hotel or one of the smaller motels. Instead he’d stayed firmly rooted in Jackson’s guest room. He’d spend his days planted at one of the tables in the pub, either tapping away at his laptop or watching everyone like a hawk. Mostly Jackson; he watched Jackson with the preoccupied gaze of someone who was trying to figure out a puzzle. Convinced something was going on Dominik seemed determined to get to the bottom of it and expose it, whatever it was.

Jackson was more amused by it than anything.

Shelley smiled to herself as she shook her head. He was so easy going he always saw the best in everyone, even obnoxious travel reporters.

Satisfied with the cake she lifted it carefully into a box, so she could carry it downstairs. Glancing at her watch she gripped the sides to lift it, pausing and turning her gaze toward the door when she heard a tentative knock.

Leaving the cake on the counter she crossed the apartment and as she opened the door her stomach dropped.

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