Cruise Ship Cozy Mysteries 03 - Cruise Chaos by A.R. Winters

Author:A.R. Winters
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2019-04-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

A s soon as I was out of the room, I pulled out my cell phone and typed in the number I had memorized from the scrap of paper. As I put it in, I realized that it was the first number I’d had to memorize since high school.

I hurried back to the conference suite. I’d been gone longer than I’d anticipated, and Sam was probably wondering where I’d got to.

When I arrived at the lounge, the space was deathly silent.

“Hello?” I called out.

“Hey,” came a quiet voice.

On the other side of the room Samantha was slumped in one of the armchairs. She was slumped so low in the chair that I hadn’t even noticed that she was there when I first looked around the room. She looked as exhausted as I felt.

“Where is everyone?”

“I sent them off after the scene finished. Don’t worry, all the clues got distributed and the plot moved along nicely. Everyone seemed to have fun. But they did keep asking where you were.”

I crossed the room and sat on the arm of the chair that Sam was using. She looked completely worn out.

“Sorry about that. It won’t happen again.”

“No problem. Those people though...” She gave a weary sigh.

“No disasters, I hope?”

Sam looked up at me with amused eyes.

“I stopped the disasters before they could happen,” she said with a little laugh. “Some of them got it in their heads that you being absent was part of the plot. A group of them were convinced there’d been a kidnapping.”

“Oh, wow.” I felt half-amused and half-guilty. If I hadn’t left Sam in that situation, she wouldn’t have had to deal with so much nonsense.

“Yeah. I persuaded them that you were off preparing stuff for later on, and that your absence was not a part of the story. What were you doing?”

The arm of the chair wasn’t all that comfortable a seat, so I stood up and turned another armchair around to face Sam. When I sat down again, almost as wearily as Sam looked, I had the sudden thought that we were like a pair of old grandmas sitting in our armchairs.

“I’ve been thinking about this morning. About how it probably isn’t a coincidence that the fake death and the real death were staged in exactly the same way. Not many of us had access to the plot, and the people who knew it best were the Danes. I wanted to find out if there were any hints or clues to suggest that they had something against Felicity.”

This drew Sam’s interest, and she pushed herself into a slightly more upright position and faced me directly.

“So did you break into their cabin?”

“No... though I probably should have.” Too late now though. “Actually, I broke into Felicity Bull’s cabin. I was hoping to find some hint as to whether she had it in for the Danes, or anyone else on the ship.”

Sam leaned forward now, keen to hear about my adventure.

“Did you find anything?”

“Nothing to implicate the Danes. Not in there, anyway.

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