Movie Night Murder (Merry Wrath Mysteries Book 4) by Langtry Leslie

Author:Langtry, Leslie [Langtry, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing
Published: 2016-09-20T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

I didn't sleep well. A reel kept spooling over and over with Seamus talking to us, the fire at the farm, and the look on Riley's face when he realized it was due to Evelyn's disappearance. Oh, and occasionally I would see Lucinda's head on fire, but that wasn't every time. I'm not a monster.

What I was torturing myself with was the fact that Seamus's wife and kids were now without a husband and father. And no matter how I spun it, I couldn't help thinking it was my fault. Riley had poured us both a healthy belt of Scotch after the news hit. I didn't even know I'd had Scotch. And this was thirty-year-old Oban. Thank you, Scotch Fairy.

Were the killers going to come after me? I hoped so, because I looked forward to killing them…slowly…with a lighter and rusty nail clippers. There's a reason TSA won't let you take them on a plane—and it's not what you think. Normal people don't know how to kill someone with manicure implements, but I do.

With the way things were going, I worried that Kelly and her family or the girls in the troop may become targets. That made me toss and turn.

Since I clearly wasn't going to sleep at four a.m., I got up, showered, dressed, and fed the cats—who were clearly confused to be eating breakfast while it was still dark outside. They didn't argue, though.

I sat in the living room with a cup of tea and my laptop—scanning for updated news. There wasn't any. This wasn't the big city with twenty-four-hour news feeds. At five a.m., Riley joined me, also showered and fully dressed.

"Anything new?" Riley asked sitting down with a cup of coffee. I didn't even know I owned a coffee maker. Was he buying appliances for my house?

Four cats came flying to him as if he was magnetized. Was he giving them coffee too? I'd need to talk to him about that. The last thing I needed was nervous, wide-eyed felines vibrating in place.

"Nothing." I turned off the television and turned toward him. "Do you think they'll be back?"

I hoped so. While I was getting ready, I found a rusty nail file by the tub and added it to my torture tools. The killers were so doomed.

"The body snatchers? I don't know. I didn't think they'd come back." Riley put the kittens on the couch between us but kept Philby.

"So they saw Seamus as they were leaving town and decided to finish him off?"

Riley's mouth formed a tight line. "It looks like that."

I shook my head. "But that doesn't make any sense. They were gone. In the clear. No one knew who they were or where they were going. And they had to know the police would interview Seamus. Why kill him after he described them?"

"Criminals make mistakes," he said. "It happens all the time."

A realization came over me and made me grumpy. "I guess this puts the case back under Rex's jurisdiction." That meant Riley would stay.

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