Witch Haunted in Westerham by Dionne Lister

Author:Dionne Lister
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780648348993
Publisher: Dionne Lister

Chapter 11

We arrived at the PIB reception room at 3:30 p.m. “I need to eat, B. I’m starving.”

He laughed. “I’m surprised you lasted that long, considering we ate lunch over three hours ago.”

The door clicked open, revealing Gus the security guy. “Hello, Agent DuPree, Lily.” He tipped his cap.

“Hey, Gus,” I said.

“Hey, man. Great to see you. How’s the missus?” Beren asked and followed me out. I was eager to hurry ahead and avoid whatever gross conversation Gus managed to produce, but James stood in the hallway, his poker face not quite in situ—traces of anger vibrated beneath it in his bunched jaw muscles and hard stare. Crap, had I done something wrong?

“Lily, Agent DuPree, please come with me. I’ve called an urgent meeting in the conference room.” Without another word, he turned and strode away. Beren and I both gave each other confused looks, then jogged to catch up, and it didn’t escape my notice that DuPree rhymed with me. I didn’t dare giggle though because my brother definitely didn’t look to be in the mood.

We entered the conference room on James’s heels, and Beren shut the door. Ma’am, Liv, and Imani were already sitting at the large table. Imani and Liv gave Beren and I small “hello” smiles, and Liv shrugged, obviously trying to tell us that she had no idea what was going on either.

Once Beren and I sat, Ma’am started. “We’ve called this urgent meeting because of a tragedy.”

I sucked in a breath as my stomach dropped to the floor. Please don’t tell me Will’s dead. Oh God, please don’t. Angelica stared at me. “Are you all right, dear?”

I cleared my throat in an effort to find my voice. “What’s the tragedy?”

She gently closed and opened her eyes in an “ah huh” moment. “We haven’t heard anything from Will. This isn’t about him, so you can breathe again.” Which is exactly what I did while pretending I hadn’t just been about to cry. “Right, team, we have a problem, a colossal one. Olivia has set up five interviews with sellers of those properties for tomorrow, and one interview with the son of one of the deceased sellers. I’m afraid to say that they’ve all died.”

My mouth dropped open. Had she just said what I thought she’d said? Imani shared a shocked look with me before asking, “Excuse me, Ma’am, but did you just say all those people died? As in died today?”

“Yes. I’m afraid so. We received notification of the deaths from an anonymous source before the police were aware. It’s clear they didn’t just die but were killed, and it’s obvious why they were killed. The murders look like natural deaths and two suicides. The message we received appeared on my laptop screen when I turned it on this afternoon. As soon as I read it, it disappeared. Anyone we make appointments to speak with is to be killed. We are to stop investigating this immediately.” She sat up straighter and sniffed. She wasn’t calling this whole thing off, was she? We had to stop these crazy murderers.

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