Dead and Breakfast (The Fox Point Files, #1) by Emma Hart

Author:Emma Hart [Hart, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Emma Hart
Published: 2023-07-10T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Eight days after I stumbled on Declan Tierney’s dead body, I had the key to the bed and breakfast back in my hands.

I was both annoyed it’d taken this long and happy it hadn’t taken too much longer. I was, after all, now officially paying for electricity and water in this place, and the standing charge for electricity was a punchline short of a joke.

At least I had the place back in my hands. That could only be a good thing, right? The police wouldn’t have let me back in here if they thought I was responsible for Declan’s murder, surely.

It just didn’t make sense.

The only thing I really was happy about was the fact the badger was now gone. The officer who’d called me to return the key had informed me they’d had its carcass removed during the investigation, and honestly, I’d kind of wanted to kiss her.

That was just the best news she could have given me.

Outside of me not being a suspect anymore, of course, but I didn’t think anyone was going to offer me that little nugget anytime soon, so I’d take it.

It was overwhelming, though.

I’d been standing here for ages. I wasn’t sure about going inside. Declan Tierney’s body had haunted me every single day since I’d discovered it, and I wasn’t sure I was in a place to go into the main part of the bed and breakfast right now.

I scooted around to the side and to the annexe veranda. The annexe didn’t have quite the trauma attached as the main part of the building, so I would start there for now.

I needed a plan.

Something to focus on that wasn’t this whole murder situation.

I unlocked the door and poked my head inside. There didn’t appear to be any sign of anything inside—dead or alive, thankfully—so I took myself in there and looked around.

It was a mess. A thick layer of dust and grime coated almost every surface, but at least none of the windows were broken. It didn’t look like it would take too much to get the annexe into a liveable state, just a bit of elbow grease.

And living here was something I wanted more than anything.

Or I had wanted it. Until I’d found a dead body. I was still trying to figure out how and why he’d died here, and until that happened, I wasn’t sure I was safe here.

Sure, now I could get all the safety checks and stuff done that needed to besorted, but that didn’t mean it was safe for me to be here.

Didn’t murderers return to the scene of the crime?

Ugh.

I crept over to the front door and closed it behind me.

Yeah, that’ll do it.

Everyone knew a closed door was the way to stop a murderer getting into your house.

I pulled a dust sheet from a small table in the corner and coughed as a cloud of dust erupted into the air.

That was a terrible idea.

Why did I do that?

I left the sheet to fall to the floor and eyed the table.

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