Beauty and the Beastmaster: Mystic Springs, #3 by Linda Winstead Jones

Author:Linda Winstead Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sorin Rising

CHAPTER 10

After getting a call from the ice cream shop Silas drove to town instead of taking the time to walk. Jordan Carter, ice cream maker, had been calm. The frantic woman he heard in the background had not.

He wouldn’t have taken Gabi for a woman to lose it over seeing a mouse or two, but she’d sounded as panicked as she had last night, when a bad memory had jerked her out of the moment and into the past. Maybe she was more delicate than she let on. Then again every woman, every person, had a right to their own fears. Apparently mice were one of hers. He’d take care of the rodent problem. As Mystic Springs’ critter guy, he’d done it before. Many times.

He parked directly in front of the beauty shop. Gabi stood by the window; Jordan was nearby.

In a matter of weeks Jordan Carter would become Jordan Benedict. She and Luke had been dating for a couple of months, and things were happening quickly with those two. He hadn’t heard many details about their wedding plans, but then again he was entirely out of the loop when it came to town gossip. He did know Jordan had been married before so she wanted to keep it simple, but the Benedicts had a tendency to do things in a big way. Maybe because there were so damn many of them. Silas could not relate. He’d been on his own for so long that the idea of a big family was alien. And terrifying.

He left his truck and walked to Gabi, who clutched her purse close to her chest as if it were a shield.

“Where are your tools?” she asked, her words too quick and breathless.

“I don’t need…”

“You’re going to need tools.” She glanced toward the door. “When I turned on the light they just went crazy. As I left I turned the light off again, I’m not sure why it was just habit, I guess. Sorry. I should’ve left the light on so maybe they’d hide. It would be better if they hid. What kinds of tools do you need for that many mice?” she muttered, the question not necessarily directed at him.

Silas glanced at Jordan, who just shrugged and said, “I don’t know what’s going on. She won’t let me open the door.”

“Trust me, you don’t want to see what’s going on in there,” Gabi said, her fretful gaze flitting to Jordan.

They’d begun to draw a crowd, if you could call four more people a crowd. In downtown Mystic Springs, seven people definitely qualified. Silas smiled at Gabi and said, “I’ll take care of it.”

He opened the door and walked into the shop. Gabi was there to keep anyone else from entering. She guarded the door, protecting the others from a few rodents.

The first hint that something was very wrong was the sound. There was a rustle in the walls, on the floor, from the back where there was a small office and a restroom. He turned on the light and the mice, not one or two but at least a hundred, swarmed.

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