Reindeer Runes - Danielle Garrett by A Christmas Paranormal Cozy Mystery

Author:A Christmas Paranormal Cozy Mystery [Mystery, A Christmas Paranormal Cozy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Roots & Wings Press
Published: 2020-11-10T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

“She could be lying,” I said to Corbin, once we left the underground clubhouse. “Maybe she confessed to taking the snowmobile to get us off her tracks.”

Corbin shook his head. “She’s not lying.”

I wasn’t sure how he could sound so certain, but didn’t press the issue. “What, um … is she?” I asked, still chilled from the encounter—literally and figuratively.

“She’s a frost harpy,” Corbin replied, his eyes scanning the streets. “She keeps her wings to herself, for the most part, but she’s got ’em,” Corbin continued.

“Wow. I didn’t even know that was a thing …”

What other secrets were lurking in the underground of the otherwise happy holiday town?

I wasn’t sure I really wanted to know the answer to that question.

Pocketing my hands, I rocked onto the balls of my feet and back to my heels. “We could go to Wet Your Wassail and see if anyone saw him leave after Everly left,” I suggested, giving the prince a wary look. “Any idea where he might have gone, or who he would have called, if he was snowmobile-less?”

Corbin shook his head. “He could have called the palace, but if he had, there would be a record of it.”

Bobbing back to my toes again, a new thought struck me. Rocking back, I frowned. “You know what’s weird …”

Corbin looked at me.

“You said he has a bodyguard, sometimes two, everywhere he goes.”

“When he doesn’t send them away,” Corbin muttered, his expression dark. “He thinks nothing bad can happen in a town like this.”

“Right, but what about the night outside the restaurant, when Charlaine’s ice troll found them? They weren’t in Holiday Haven. They were at the North Pole. So, shouldn’t one of the guards have been there to stop it?”

“They should have,” Corbin said, though I could see the wheels in his mind start turning again. “Sounds like my father got one thing right, in dismissing Crane.”

“Do you think he might be able to answer some of these questions? He was still on the job last night. He must know something about what happened.”

“It’s just a matter of tracking him down. He’ll have already been removed from his residence at the castle by now. I’ll need to make some phone calls.” Corbin pointed his chin down the street, back the way we’d come. “Let’s get out of the cold. I’ll call and see if I can find Crane. He’s Jack’s main guard … or, at least, he was.”

Pausing on the sidewalk, he gestured up at the sign hanging above the Candy Cane Café. “I don’t know about you, but I could use a refill.”

With a small smile, I nodded and followed him inside. It was one of my favorite places in Holiday Haven, second only to the Corner Bookstore. The cozy shop was always warm and smelled of chocolate. Mismatched, overstuffed chairs and low coffee tables dotted the room, making it feel more like someone’s grandmother’s living room than a cold, cookie-cutter coffeehouse. A fireplace sat on one end, with bookshelves on either side, full of knickknacks and secondhand paperbacks that anyone could borrow.

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