Miss Meurtre
Part 3
“So…” Elliot leaned back in her seat. “The wifi isn’t working, we can’t call anyone, we can’t go anywhere, and there’s a murderer among us. Seems to me that somebody wants to play a game.”
“Elliot—” Theodore started with a sigh, but Elliot glared him down.
“Our best chance at surviving is waiting out this storm and then walking to the police station,” she continued. “We have to stick together, use a buddy system, whatever. The point is to stay alive.”
Bane scoffed. “How do we know you didn’t kill Lizzie?”
“Oh, please,” Sadie snapped, turning around in her seat. “The person here with the greatest motivation to kill Lizzie would be you.”
“Jeez, would you two stop it?” Elliot snapped.
“Well, personally, I think it was Mave,” Benjamin suddenly spoke up. “She’s acting like she just won the lottery.”
“I heard that!” Mave yelled from the kitchen. “And it wasn’t me! “
“I mean, she is grinning like the Cheshire Cat,” Cady muttered under her breath.
“Mave wouldn’t do that,” Theodore defended. “Lizzie was her sister-in-law, for God’s sake. In fact, I would say Benjamin could’ve done it.”
“Me? I only see her once a year! Why would I kill her?”
“Well, you divorced her, maybe you still have something against her—”
“What about Mave—”
“I would never—”
Elliot muttered under her breath. All the adults—including Bane, who had stopped arguing with Sadie, and Mave, who had walked into the living room—were yelling at each other, none of them were paying attention to Sadie or Elliot. Which was just amazing.
Fine. If the adults weren’t going to do anything, Elliot would figure it out on her own. She grabbed Sadie’s hand, who glanced at her, slightly surprised.
“Come on. I have something to show you.”
Moments later, they stood outside the house, at the edge of the forest where the cabin was located.
“Uhh, Elliot, I know you usually don’t have the brightest ideas,” Sadie started. “But this is downright stupid. You want to go into the woods in the middle of a snowstorm while a killer is on the loose?”
“Are you only saying that because you’re cold?” Elliot wrapped her scarf tighter around her neck and stepped right outside the perimeter. It had been a while since she’d last been to the cabin, but she still vaguely remembered the way. And besides, the pine forest was small. Even if they got lost, it would be easy to find their way back.
“Elliot!” Sadie called out, still refusing to step into the shaded woods. “Please, I’m freezing out here. Can we just go back inside?” Elliot didn’t reply, having already disappeared behind the dense trees and snow falling from the sky. “And she’s gone.” Sadie sighed.
Elliot heard the crunch of snow as Sadie rushed up beside her. “Can you at least tell me where we’re going?” she muttered.
“The old cabin I told you about,” Elliot replied. “You know, where we used to stay before the construction of the house was finished?”
“What?” Sadie scrunched up her face. “Why?”
