Pine Lake Inn Cozy Mystery Box Set 1 by K J Emrick

Author:K J Emrick [Emrick, K J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: South Coast Publishing
Published: 2020-05-23T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

My cell rang early the next morning.

Very early.

I was tempted to smash the thing to pieces and go back to sleeping on James’s chest, here on his old, comfy couch. It was Sunday, after all. A day of rest. This was probably the most comfortable I’d been in days.

“That’s your mobile,” James muttered, shifting his body over, sliding me down on my side, on the edge of the couch, closer to the stupid phone.

“Mrph,” I mumbled at him, which had sounded like a really good insult in my head until I tried to speak. I was too tired to form coherent, eloquent sentences. Well. At least he can’t say he doesn’t know what I’m like in the morning.

We had watched television deep into the night, missing most of what we were watching while we pretended we were still teenagers. I could still feel the way his lips touched me on that spot behind my ear…

Ring, buzz-ring…

I officially hate my ring tone.

Figuring I at least need to check to see who’s calling me at sunrise, I reached out and grabbed the cell off the coffee table beside the couch to check the screen.

Struggling to sit upright, I accidentally planted a hand in James’ midsection, making him grunt and pop his eyes open wide. Thumbing the answer button, I put the phone up to my ear.

It’s Kevin calling me. That can’t be a good thing.

“Mom?” he said immediately. “I need ya to come down to the police station. Are ya at the Inn? I’ll come ‘round.”

“What? Kevin, what’s going on?”

James is listening intently now, his reporter senses tingling. I pointed a look at him, and he sort of rolled his eyes before climbing up over the back of the couch to untangle himself from me.

“Mom,” Kevin said after a muffled pause. I got the impression he’s not alone. “Myles Sinclair is down here. He’s under arrest.”

“Kevin, what—?”

“I can’t get into it now,” he told me. “Just, trust me. I’ll be right down.”

“No, uh… no… I’m not at the Inn. Right now. I’m, uh, out.” Smooth, Dell, I told myself. Real smooth. He’ll never know what you’re up to with such clever banter. “I can be there in twenty minutes.”

“Make it ten.”

He hung up, not pushing me on where I was or saying anything else about what was happening, leaving me to wonder.

Why was Myles under arrest? Had Kevin found something out last night? Something important?

Something serious?

I bounced up off the couch and ran my fingers back through my hair. Not like I was going out to the Sydney Opera House or anything but I didn’t exactly want to show up at the station with couch hair, either. As it was I knew Kevin would notice how I was wearing the same clothes I had on yesterday. I could change into the things I had here but if I remember all I’d left here last time was a pair of jean shorts and a few t-shirts. Not the image I really wanted to present at the police department.

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