Dead Ringer: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel: (Spook Society) (Haven Hollow Book 30) by J.R. Rain & H.P. Mallory

Author:J.R. Rain & H.P. Mallory [Rain, J.R. & Mallory, H.P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rain Press
Published: 2023-07-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“Okay, let me see if I have all this straight,” Taliyah said, pinching the bridge of her nose like she was trying to ward off a headache.

It was a pretty common sight for me.

“Yes?” I asked, wincing all the while because I really didn’t like being on the receiving end of Taliyah’s foul temper.

“You’re on a case to find something for somebody, and you won’t disclose either due to ‘client and gumshoe privilege’,” she paused to glare at me harder, “which isn’t a thing, by the way. Other people also want said mysterious item, and now that you’ve got a lead on it, people are following you in their car. Is that about it?”

“I think that just about wraps it up.”

I’d parked the car and opened the door so I could swing my legs out. My hands and feet were still a bit tingly from the chase, and I was glad for the rest before trying to finish the drive home. I’d look like a real palooka if I got away from whoever was tailing me, only to drive off the road trying to get home.

Taliyah shifted, her boots crunching on the gravel shoulder of the road. She’d kept her police lights on, probably to keep anyone coming down the road from hitting us, and in the strobe of scarlet and blue lights, she looked worried.

It was a pretty subtle look on Taliyah, but I’d seen it enough to recognize it.

“Darla, if you’re in some kind of trouble, you can tell me. You know I’ll help you.”

Taliyah was a good dame. She was smart, driven, and she really cared about people. Only she was quiet about it, so some people took it as her being cold, which wasn’t the deal at all. She’d been through a lot, and yet, there she was, asking after me.

Taliyah had blown into Haven Hollow in the wake of her only brother’s murder, and had taken over as Chief of Police, thinking to settle herself and her two sons into a small town and recover from her nasty divorce from some dime store cowboy.

And then she’d found out that she wasn’t a human, and that she was, in fact, Olwen, Princess of the Winter faeries. Furthermore, she was prophesized to regain her power, get married to some fella she’d never met before but had been betrothed to for fifty years, and take her throne as Queen. Nobody asked her, they just dumped it all on her and expected her to just go along with it like some little lamb.

Let me tell you, not one of them had ever met Taliyah, or they would have known from the get-go that such a plan didn’t have a snowball’s chance in you know where.

She’d told them all exactly where they could stuff it, and continued being the Chief of Police instead of running off to Faerie Land, and I say, more power to her.

Standing there on the side of the road, she looked pretty much like she

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