Pumpkin Spice and Poisoning (Sweet Baked Mystery Book 4) by Katherine Hayton

Author:Katherine Hayton [Hayton, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Cozy Mystery
Publisher: Katherine Hayton
Published: 2018-04-30T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Susan called her husband and was packed up and ready to leave by the time he arrived, ten minutes later.

“No,” she said when Dr. Allende tried to convince her to stay. “I’m not going to remain in this death trap.”

Holly felt the same level of concern about Crystal, but also knew that if her sister took a turn for the worse, there wasn’t a better place for her to be. Not that it was her decision to make in any case. Now that Crystal was fully conscious, more than likely she wouldn’t listen to anybody’s opinion but her own.

Luckily, her own opinion was that she should also stay in the medical center.

“It may be a bit creepy here,” she admitted to Holly. “But if I go home, I’ll just try to do too much too soon and probably wind up somewhere worse for a much longer time. Better that I stay here.” She paused and pursed her lips. “If somebody ends up killing me, too, then I guess I’ll seem a right fool.”

“Nobody is going to kill you,” Holly said. “A policeman is going to be stationed in here at all hours, so you’re safer here than anywhere else. I’ll feel a lot better about you staying put than poor Susan sitting alone at home.”

Crystal snorted. “Hardly alone. She’s got her extended family staying with her too. I bet if the two sets of parents had been stationed in the waiting room, then none of this terrible business would’ve transpired.”

“I still can’t believe he did this,” Holly admitted. “He seemed like such a nice man when I was talking with him last night. What on earth could have driven him to act like this?”

“Yeah. We need to have a serious talk about your safety when I get home. It’s no use worrying about me in the hospital, if you’re going out alone at night, chasing after strange young men.”

Holly swallowed hard and looked down at the floor. Even though it didn’t feel like it, her logical thoughts had already pointed out the danger she’d willingly exposed herself to. Just because she didn’t want to go home to an empty house, she might have wound up dead.

It didn’t seem real.

But the evidence was now coated with a sheet in the side room. As soon as the murder became widely known, Holly could only imagine that the press would descend in a snarling pack on Hanmer Springs. This wasn’t just a killing—because of poor, dead Will’s nationality, this was now an international incident.

Their lives were about to spin into an entirely new reality. Worst of all, poor Kendra was sitting stunned in the waiting room with no husband, no family, and no support.

“I wonder if I should offer your room to Kendra.” Holly perched on the edge of her sister’s bed and glanced down at her fingernails. Even though the words had come out of her mouth, the thought of making the offer made her feel tired. When Crystal shot her an expression that told Holly she was absolutely not allowed to do that, she didn’t argue.

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