Granny on Board by Harper Lin

Author:Harper Lin [Lin, Harper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harper Lin Books

Nine

Nothing kills a fun evening quicker than a murder on the dance floor. Worried whispers and cries of fear spread through the crowd as fast as Octavian’s dance had done a few minutes previously. One by one, the Bar Belles stopped playing their instruments. Tony Iron, who was singing with his eyes closed, kept on going until the lead guitarist poked him in the back with her instrument.

“I’ll be your stair maaaa—hey, what’s going on?”

“She’s been murdered!” I shouted. “No one touch the body. No one leaves this room!” I shouted.

More gasps followed by a profound silence.

A young man pushed his way through the crowd. When I say young, he looked in his thirties, which made him notably older than the average in the gay crowd.

“I’m a doctor. Stand aside,” he said. He knelt by her, felt her pulse, and turned her over. Alicia’s nose was broken. A pool of blood glistened where she had smacked her face into the floor.

“You shouldn’t—” I started.

“Quiet,” he cut me off. He put an ear to her chest. “Get me the defibrillator!”

A waiter rushed up with the device, and the doctor applied it to Alicia’s chest. There was a loud thunk, and Alicia’s body convulsed. He listened to her chest again. I glanced at Georgina and her pals. They were all pale, obviously shocked. But who was faking? How had they killed her? And why?

The doctor applied the defibrillator again. Alicia convulsed again and groaned. The doctor felt her pulse, timing it with his watch. Then he nodded.

“The worst is over, but we need to get her to the infirmary.”

“What happened?” Georgina asked.

“She suffered cardiac arrest. Too much dancing and drinking for a woman her age,” the doctor replied.

“Are you sure?” I asked. Maybe she had been poisoned or something.

The doctor gave me a warning look. “You can’t party like you’re in your twenties anymore.”

Two sailors rushed through the crowd, carrying a stretcher. They put Alicia on it and hurried off, the doctor, me, and Georgina and her crew following.

“You’re going to be all right, Alicia,” Georgina choked out, walking alongside the stretcher, tears in her eyes. Alicia moaned, barely conscious.

We got to the infirmary, where we were met by the ship’s doctor and a nurse, who had already been alerted. They briefly consulted with the doctor who had revived Alicia then took her inside, closing the door on the rest of us.

It was then that I noticed Octavian and Fiona weren’t with us.

I felt a spike of jealousy, a wholly unworthy emotion since I knew Octavian was “on the case,” as it were. I hoped that was the only thing he was on.

For a moment, everyone stood there in silence. Georgina started pacing, giving me odd looks. Lauren burst into tears and excused herself.

“I can’t stand it. I just can’t stand it!” she cried as she hurried off.

Finally, a real emotion from one of these succubi.

Lauren came back a few minutes later, her mascara still a mess. She must have been really upset not to freshen up, as obsessive as she was about her appearance.

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