Have Yourself a Merry Little Witness: A Witchy Christmas Cozy Mystery (Marshmallow Hollow Mysteries Book 2) by Dakota Cassidy

Author:Dakota Cassidy [Cassidy, Dakota & Cassidy, Dakota]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-28T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 10

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Written by Unknown

Just as we were about to enter the coffee shop, I got a notification on my phone from the local Facebook page, Marshmallow Hollow Chatter.

My heart stopped in my chest as I read a comment from someone about the police finding Kerry Carver’s lipstick at Feeney’s.

Hobbs looked down at me, his brow furrowed. “Everything okay?”

“Well, all of Marshmallow Hollow knows about Kerry’s lipstick the police found at the scene of the crime. They’re all talking about it on the page as we speak.”

“A leak in the department?” Hobbs wondered out loud, a look of surprise on his face.

“Well, it wasn’t me. Was it you?”

He looked me in the eye. “I’d have my skin peeled off at high noon first. So no. Is there an origin to the post? Some proof?”

I didn’t believe Hobbs was capable of telling anyone. I mean, who would he tell anyway? He hardly knew anyone. “It says here they heard it on the afternoon news. A leak in the department sounds about right. I sure hope Stiles doesn’t think it was us.”

“You know what this does, though?”

“What?”

“Gives us a reason to talk to Westcott Morgan.”

I leaned back against the coffee shop’s brick wall and looked up at his handsome face. “I don’t get it.”

“What was the reason we were going to give about why we wanted to talk to him about his article? Why would he give two strangers any secret information he might have about the missing girls? But now we can explain we wanted to talk to him about the connection between a missing Kerry, a murdered Gable Norton, and our concerns about the killer coming after Uncle Monty.”

That hadn’t even occurred to me. That Westcott might want a reason we were so invested in the disappearance of the girls.

I twirled the ends of my hair and batted my eyelashes. “You, Cowboy, have a pretty devious mind. It never occurred to me I’d need a reason to talk to him. I thought he’d just spill all his secrets to me because I’m so cute. What was your plan?”

“You are very cute, and I was going to wing it. Maybe pretend I was writing a book on serial killers.”

I poked him playfully in the chest. “You? Write a book? That’s funny, seeing as you’ve only read one book in your entire life.”

“He doesn’t know that, silly. And that’s not entirely true. I’ve read other books, but I was forced to read them for school.”

Flapping my hands, I rolled my eyes. “I, for one, am glad we don’t have to lie. I stink at it,” I said before I sneezed.

Hobbs looked at me as though he were affronted at the notion and handed me a tissue. “We weren’t going to lie. Only pretend.”

“I’m not a very good pretender. Either way, I’m glad we don’t have to. Now, are you ready to go find out if Westcott has anything that can help us?”

Hobbs grinned. “Every day, all day.” He pulled the door open and motioned for me to go ahead.

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