Witching up the Wrong Tree: A Cozy Canine Caper (Paws and Poltergeists Book 1) by Mara Webb

Author:Mara Webb [Webb, Mara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-08-07T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

I barely slept. Joan had waited until Marie and Nate were gone to fully explain everything she remembered. Not that it was much. There had been a figure at the bottom of the ladder, someone in all black grabbed it with both hands and began to pull and push. Joan had clung on but ultimately the movement was too much, and she fell from the top of it onto the ground.

Around the tree where she had been working were a few ornamental steppingstones, utterly pointless slabs that had to be maintained by trimming the grass carefully around them so that none of the surface was obscured. This was unfortunately the cause of Joan’s fatal head injury, she collided with one of the slabs and that was the end of that.

I lay in my bed and stared at the ceiling, occasionally glancing at the clock on my nightstand and contemplating getting out of bed. Joan had been killed on the Miller’s property, then at the funeral a woman was poisoned. My best guess on that front was that the intended victim for the ethylene glycol had been Mrs. Miller, but as the manager of the wait staff had been working them half to death in the heat one of them had resorted sneaking an entire cocktail intended for a customer.

There was also the issue with Edgar’s house. That tree stump had been cut, so unless the removal company had cut it – which Eileen assured me hadn’t happened – then it seemed the whole incident was intentional. Would Edgar do it to himself? Or was someone else involved?

I pulled a robe around myself and made my way downstairs, almost falling down the bottom few steps when I heard a noise coming from the dining room. Glass shattered, something heavy thudding to the ground, a car screeching away. Fluke barked wildly as he ran towards the sound, but I grabbed him to hold him back.

I peered around the door frame, bracing myself for something paranormal and terrifying. It was half a brick with a piece of paper wrapped around it, secured with yarn. ‘stop asking questions’, three words scrawled onto a torn piece of printer paper in black ink. I held the brick for a split second before dropping it to the ground again, as if I could undo the contamination I’d created with my own fingerprints.

I made for the window, hoping to catch a glimpse of the retreating vehicle, but I was bare foot and there was glass everywhere. This was sent as a warning. But why? Who had I asked questions to that was feeling threatened? Sissy raced through the wall from the kitchen, she looked horrified at the mess and when she realized what had caused it continued to float through the exterior wall towards the front yard.

The glass was confined to the dining room, so I rushed out into the hall and pulled open the front door. Whoever had thrown the brick was long gone. The curtains

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.