A Mouthful of Murder: A Frosted Love Cozy Mystery Book 4 (Frosted Love Mysteries) Read Online Free PDF

tea.
    “Coconut
Dream sounds intriguing,” she pointed at a tub of snowy white frozen fluff.
    “You’re
gonna love it!” She got up with a flutter of her skirt and a jangle of
bracelets to dip some of the creamy concoction into a bowl for Missy, the two
enjoying each other’s labors of love together.

Chapter
9
     
    Detective
Chas Beckett called that night, and despite the fact that she knew she
shouldn’t be discussing the Cora Nesbitt murder case with him, she had to tell
him everything that had been happening to her since the murder, including her
frustration with Detective Johnson.
    “Don’t
worry about Johnson, he’s always like that,” Chas assured her. “Occupational
hazard for some detectives.”
    “It’s
been awful, Chas,” Missy said, trying her best not to cry. “They even have cars
driving around my house spying on me.”
    “Actually,
most of those times, it’s probably me, doing whatever I can to watch over you,”
he admitted. “But they probably have stepped up patrols as well, just in case.”
    “They’re
just barking up the wrong tree by investigating me,” she wailed, distraught.
    “Don’t
worry, Missy, they’re barking up more than one tree. It may seem like nothing
is moving forward with this investigation, but new evidence and discovery comes
in every day. They’re getting closer.”
    “Don’t
think I’m silly for saying this, but…I miss you,” she confessed, holding
tightly to her phone.
    There
was a brief pause, causing her stomach to plummet to her knees, hoping that she
hadn’t said too much too soon, before Chas responded, “I know, it’s
frustrating…I miss you too.”
    A
smile broke over Missy’s face like the dawn of a new day, while at the same
time, a tear rolled down her cheek. The two talked for another half hour or so,
about daily mundane things, before hanging up with promises of a spectacular
reunion once the Nesbitt case was over.
    Missy
came back in from walking Toffee on a beautiful sunny morning and fixed herself
a cup of coffee. Feeling better after having talked with Chas, she sighed with
pleasure, basking in the sunlight of her cozy breakfast nook. Ben and Cheryl
were scheduled to open this morning, so she could drink her coffee, have a
leisurely breakfast while scrolling through the news on her phone, and meander
in to the shop whenever she felt like it. It was the closest thing that she
could get to a day off, and she intended to make the best of it. A phone call
interrupted a news story that she was reading, and when she saw that it was Ben
calling, she picked up immediately.
    “Hey,
Ms. G….so, there’s something going on down here at the store,” her loyal
manager began, sounding hesitant. “But, you probably shouldn’t come down.”
    “What?
Why? What happened, Ben?” Missy demanded, reaching for her keys.
    “Well,
somehow, a whole lot of snakes got in here…”
    “Snakes?
What do you mean snakes got in? That’s impossible, there’s no way for snakes to
get in,” Missy insisted, shuddering. Snakes were her most profound fear. Just
the thought of them caused her to tremble with dread.
    “Yes
ma’am, I know it’s weird, but the whole place is literally crawling with
snakes. Grass snakes, garter snakes, water moccasins, cotton mouths, all kinds.
They’re everywhere…in the cases, in the bathroom and the lounge, all over the
kitchen, everywhere. The only place I didn’t see them was in the freezer,” Ben
sounded a bit shaken.
    Missy
fought her rising hysteria. “You’re not in there, are you Ben?” she asked,
gritting her teeth.
    “No,
I’m outside. I got here first, so I didn’t let Cheryl go in. I called Wildlife
Control and they have a special team coming in to take care of it,” he explained.
    Shudders
rippled through Missy like waves on a pond. “Okay, good. Thank you for handling
that appropriately, Ben. I’m afraid I wouldn’t have been as clear-headed if I
had been the one to encounter those particular