Mardi Gras Madness (A Roxy Reinhardt Cozy Mystery Book 1) by Alison Golden & Honey Broussard

Author:Alison Golden & Honey Broussard [Golden, Alison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-27T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

THEY CONTINUED TO stare at the TV even though the news report had moved on to more upbeat topics. The channel was now showing footage of the carnival celebrations.

“You know, I don’t think Mara did it,” Sage said.

“Of course she did,” Nat scoffed.

But Roxy wasn’t so quick to dismiss Sage. “What makes you say that?”

Sage looked straight at Roxy, her dark eyes flashing. “My intuition.”

“Oh, for goodness…” Nat began, then seemed to remember their earlier argument and rushed to say, “Well, I mean, well, you know, I…” She couldn’t find anything with which to elegantly finish off her sentence so she sighed and her shoulders slumped. “Sorry.”

“Not to worry, sugar,” Sage said. She threw Nat a wink and patted her hand.

Roxy’s mind began to whir again. She had never ever trusted her intuition. In the past, she’d always felt too anxious to have any. Her decision to come to New Orleans had been unique in that respect. Until that point, when faced with choices, she’d always gone for the safest option with the least potential to go wrong. Now, however now, feeling much more relaxed in New Orleans among her new friends, the strange gut feeling she had, the fluttering that told her, No, something isn’t quite right here, stood out. She wondered what it could mean. If Mara hadn’t killed the developer, then who had?

“Let’s go,” Nat said. “Now that they’ve caught that dead man’s crazy wife, maybe Evangeline will think about keeping the guesthouse open. I want to persuade her.”

“You know she can’t afford to keep it going,” said Sage, as they tipped their tray contents into the trash. “It’s been running at a loss for ages.”

“Yeah, but Sam said he’d buy it off her,” Nat said breezily as if the deal had already been sealed. “And Louise is our backup. As annoying as she is, if she keeps the guesthouse open, I’ll be her best friend for life.”

Roxy laughed. “And maybe there’ll finally be a steamy romance between her and Sam as they run the guesthouse together. It’d be like something out of a book.”

Nat snorted. “In her dreams.”

“She’s alright,” Roxy said as they walked back out onto the street.

“No, too old, too cougar,” said Nat. “And she keeps totally embarrassing herself.

“She is suffering,” Sage said. “I would say both her first and second chakras are severely out of balance.”

Roxy saw Nat open her mouth, then close it again. Instead, she let out a huge happy sigh, swinging her arms as they walked. “Well, looks like that dumb Johnson won’t be sniffing around for much longer. Let’s go home and persuade Evangeline and Sam and Louise or any combination of the above to keep Evangeline’s open.”

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