Bayou Cottage (Cypress Cove Book 1) by Suzanne Jenkins

Author:Suzanne Jenkins [Jenkins, Suzanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Saturday morning, Brulee woke Maggie up. She lay on her back, her arm over her face, and in seconds the memory of the previous night flooded over her. She’d worked cleaning up the cottage until well after midnight.

She’d kept looking for her cell phone, forgetting it had been taken. Knowing that the person who had done the damage might also be nuts enough to contact everyone on her phone, she waited for her mother, aunt, sister or friend Annie to call her on the landline to find out what the heck was going on, but they did not. And unless the person was a techy, they would be unable to access her computer without the password. Rarely did she ever turn her computer off, but that day, it had updated. Relief had flooded her body when she realized that. At least her personal banking and other information would be safe.

Letting Brulee out to pee, Maggie stood on the grass, looking around the cottage. The horses had left for the morning, but they were there last night, quiet, like sentries. Evidence of their visit lingered, flattened grass where they had lain, the smell of horse manure that she was amusingly growing to like. In spite of that, tears welled up thinking about the horses, their innocent neighing having alerted her to the snoop who had come up that first night.

The sun was rising behind the cottage like it did every morning, but there was a quality of light that day that reminded her of autumns past, that if she was lucky, she might smell leaves burning in the evening, and when she went into town in the skiff, there would be pumpkins for sale at the hardware store.

When Brulee was done, they went up onto the porch, and that was when Maggie saw the piece of paper. The sheriff had missed it the previous evening. Back in the cottage, she got a tissue to pick up the paper, just in case. The words new dock were written in a distinctive, feminine script. Maybe whoever had done the damage had come there by boat. She’d wondered about that, because surely if she’d ridden a horse, it would have made enough noise that Brulee would have been alerted. Someone could shut a boat motor off and paddle to her dock. So even the water had become a threat.

After feeding Brulee, she made coffee and sprayed herself with bug repellent so she could sit outside to drink it. Every impulse to fix up the cottage was gone. She felt so empty inside, just like she had when she’d found out that Russ and Claudia were together. The betrayal was awful, but the thoughtlessness was worse. Why didn’t her fiancé and best friend find someone else to fall in love with? Why each other? It made no sense when she said it out loud, but perfect sense when she thought of it. They should have known that was the worst thing they could do to her, another human being that they supposedly had loved at one time.

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