Westerham Witches and a Venetian Vendetta by Dionne Lister

Author:Dionne Lister [Lister, Dionne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dionne Lister

Chapter 7

My phone rang. It had only been about five minutes since they’d left. Had they already found something? Heart racing, I slid my phone out of my pocket.

Damn.

Unknown number.

Now was not the time to be getting a sales call from some company who wanted to sell me ink cartridges, or from someone telling me the “police” were after me for avoiding taxes. Just in case it was important—maybe Will was calling me from the PIB Trieste office—I pressed the answer button. “Hello?” I braced myself to hang up quickly if it was a scammer. Normally, I’d love to keep them on the phone and pretend to believe them to waste their time, but I wasn’t in the mood.

“Hello, Miss Bianchi?” The woman on the other end sounded familiar and had an Italian accent.

Who could it be? I wasn’t answering till I knew. I mean, why did people do this? Call someone and ask who they were before saying who the caller was. Excuse me, but you’re calling me, bucko. “Who is this?”

She tittered. “Mi Scusi! It is Isabella from the ’otel. I was wondering if you could come and join me for a coffee. The camera, it showed you were in the ’otel office. I’d like to know why.”

Crap. What the hell should I do now? What if I admitted it, and she had me arrested? Well, it’s not like they could arrest me while I was in the UK, but it meant I couldn’t go back to Venice… ever. And she was a fairly nice old lady who was going through enough right now with the murder of her boss. Maybe she’d forgive me if she knew why I was looking? “Sorry. I was just trying to find some information. My dear friend Angelica has gone missing, and I’ve been looking everywhere. She has a habit of drinking too much and falling asleep in weird places. I thought maybe she had accidentally gone in there and, you know, fallen asleep.” What was a lie between strangers?

“Mio Dio!” Silence for a bit. “I’m so sorry.” She sighed, and her voice sounded worn down, tired. “All the things happening here. Evil is around. First, my son-in-law is murdered, and they think my beautiful Elena has killed him. I know she would not. She is a good girl, and she loved him. And now your friend is missing. What are we going to do? Who will be next?” Were they sniffles I could hear on the other end?

Wow, she was the suspect’s mother? No wonder she was upset. Hmm, I debated her claim that her daughter loved him. Elena didn’t love him enough to either break it off with him or not see other men, even though it broke his heart. “It’s okay, Isabella. I’m sure Angelica will turn up soon. Are you going to be all right?”

“I don’t know. Oh, Miss Bianchi. I’m very worried. I don’t feel well. My daughter is with those agents, and my grandson is out. What should I do?”

Damn it.

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