Free Mango Madness Murder: A Frosted Love Cozy Mystery - Book 15 (Frosted Love Cozy Mysteries) by Carol Durand Page A

squeezed his hand. “I’ve been thinking,” she continued, “…that with
Ben and Cheryl moving away, Echo moving away, and everything else that’s
happened in LaChance the last couple of years…maybe it’s time for a change,”
she shrugged.
    “A
change? What kind of change?” Chas asked, his blue eyes dazzling her.
    “Like,
maybe we should move…” she trailed off, looking at him hopefully.
    “I’m
not opposed to the idea,” he answered agreeably. “What did you have in mind?”
Chas’s options were wide open. Because of his huge inheritance, he could live
anywhere he wanted to, and now that they were married, the same applied to
Missy.
    “Well,
when Maggie said that the owner of The Beach House was selling it, it gave me
an idea. I’ve always thought that it would be fun to own a bed and breakfast,
and if we bought that one, we could keep it open, Maggie could keep her job,
the developers wouldn’t be able to swoop in and bulldoze it, and I could have a
cupcake bakery down here,” she enthused.
    “So
you’ve already plotted out a course to save the world, haven’t you, my
tender-hearted wife?” Chas asked, loving her more every minute.
    “And
the dogs would love the beach and the ocean, and we could go for long walks and
swim whenever we wanted…” she continued her previous thought.
    “But
what about my work? I wouldn’t think there’d be much for a detective to do in
this sleepy little area,” he pointed out.
    “Oh.
I hadn’t really thought about that part of it. Do you have to do police work?
Couldn’t you just take people out cruising in a sailboat or something?”
    Chas
took a breath, thinking for a moment before responding. “Sweetie, I have to
have a purpose in life. If I’m not working at doing something that helps
people, I’m going to feel useless,” he explained.
    Missy
nodded, filled with admiration for the man she married. “I understand. What
about charity work? Would that make you feel good?”
    “I
do charity work along with my job,” he reminded her. Seeing her deflate a bit,
he changed tactics. “Let’s head back to the inn and do more talking,” he
suggested. “I like the idea, we just need to think things through a bit. I just
don’t know that there’d even be enough police work down here to keep me busy.”
    He
paid the check and they were mostly quiet, just enjoying each other’s company,
on the way home. Missy yawned repeatedly, and looked forward to climbing into
their massive feather bed.
    They
walked into the front foyer and were startled by a bloodcurdling scream. Maggie
dashed inside, wild-eyed. “There’s a body in the pool!”
    Chas
and Missy looked at each other, Missy was scared, Chas was resolute. “Maybe
there’s a purpose for me here after all,” he said grimly, heading for the pool
area.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

 
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