Hope Harbor by Jill Sanders

Author:Jill Sanders [Sanders, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781945100178
Publisher: Grayton Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

16

Just the facts

Eve took charge and oversaw the quiet removal of her cousin’s body out the back door of the inn. Thankfully, most of the guests were too busy drinking and partying in the hall to notice anything was wrong.

She blocked off that room in the computer so it wouldn’t be rented for the next few weeks and told all the staff not to enter it until the investigation was over.

After things settled down and Dylan was busy downstairs working, she pulled out her phone and debated calling her aunt and uncle.

The guests may not know what was going on, but she doubted the staff would keep the gossip quiet for too much longer.

Steve was the only child of her uncle Roger and Aunt Regina. One they had spoiled from the moment he’d been born, or at least for as long as she’d know him. Steve was a few years older than her, and her aunt and uncle had given the man anything he’d ever asked for.

So, who would have wanted to kill him?

“Mom?” she said surprised when her mother answered on the second ring.

“I know what you’re going to say,” her mother broke in with a huff. “We had to leave. After that embarrassing show your cousin put on. Roger and Regina are livid that Steve has taken off. We’ve all headed to Seattle for a few days in hopes that the gossip will die down and Steve will come to his senses and apologize for embarrassing us.”

Embarrassing them? What about the damage? The physical harm he’d done to DarCee? Then she remembered seeing Steve’s lifeless body sprawled out on the bed of room four-thirty-two and closed her eyes as her stomach rolled.

“I’m not calling about that. Are Roger and Regina with you?” she asked.

Her mother was quiet for a moment. “Yes, we’re all having lunch at the club. Why?”

What club? Eve thought but then shook that thought from her mind. Focus, she told herself.

“Mom, I need to tell you something, but don’t freak out. I need you to remain calm.”

“What is it Evelyn?” her mother asked, impatience in her tone. Eve hated hearing the temper.

“Steve’s dead,” she replied in a low tone.

“I’m sorry, what?” her mother asked.

“We found his body…” The phone was jostled, and suddenly her father came on the line.

“What’d you do?” he asked, his tone just as impatient as her mother’s.

“Me?” Eve stood up, shocked. “What do you mean?”

“Your mother is pale as a ghost. What did you say to her to make her almost pass out?” her father spat out.

“Steve’s dead,” she repeated, sitting back down. “He was found in a room here at the inn.”

Her father was silent. “We’re coming home.” He hung up sharply.

It took her almost five minutes to come to the realization that their rooms, all of them on the top floor, now sat empty. All except for her new rooms.

She’d had the movers remove most of her grandfather’s old furniture. They’d dropped it off at the secondhand store in town where it sat for sale on commission.

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