Replicas Risk Ruin A Percy James Mystery
Kat Simons
REPLICAS RISK RUIN
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Welcome to the Azur Regent
February brings calm and quiet to the Azur Regent. But for a sleep deprived Percy James, she could do with a little more excitement. Or a night’s sleep. A full night’s sleep would really help. With her baby niece sick and her sister losing her mind over the baby’s first cold, Percy starts to feel like a walking zombie.
She even starts imagining things with one of the few guests staying at the hotel. Percy prides herself on her cheerful work ethic. Seeing suspicious things where none exist proves she needs more than makeup to cover the circles under her eyes.
Fortunately, working at a hotel comes with perks. A night of uninterrupted, undisturbed sleep will put Percy back to rights.
Except nothing at the Azur Regent is ever that simple. Even a night’s sleep.
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Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
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To my family.
Even sleepless nights are okay because we’re together.
One
Being an aunt comes with a lot of rewards. Especially if, like me, you’re a live-in aunt. There’s all the cute baby snuggles, and baby laughs, and getting to see a lot of firsts, like the first grabby hands, the first taste of solid food, the first roll over—that was an exciting day in our house.
But living with a baby that is not yours does have a few drawbacks. Not that I’m complaining. I love Becky and Lilith. I love them living with me while Becky’s husband, Pat, an army sergeant, is oversees. I never even really minded the whole waking up a few times at night to help Becky in the early days when Lilith didn’t sleep through. Well, to be fair, Lilith still doesn’t sleep through the night. She’s not one of those kinds of babies yet. But I will give her the naps. She naps like a champ.
What I’m getting at here, though, is that sometimes babies have bad nights. Can be for a lot of reasons. At the moment, that reason for Lilith is some sort of cold. The cold comes with congestion and a low fever, and since Lilith is Becky’s first, the whole sick with a cold and low-grade fever is new, and it’s freaking Becky out.
That’s the real drawback here. Not so much the sick baby—which is miserable for everyone involved because who likes a sick baby, right? Poor little thing with her stuffy nose and crying cause she feels horrible. Can’t even blame her. I’d cry too if I were sick. I don’t hardly get sick, so that’s probably why I’m such a baby about it when I do. No, it’s not our poor baby being sick so much as it is Becky losing her complete mind over our poor baby being sick.
She’s not sleeping. She’s worried all the time. She’s scrolling her phone in the middle of the night looking up all the worst possible things that could be happening with Lilith, which isn’t helping with either the sleep or the worry. She’s called the doctor four times in three days. And we took Lilith to the doctor yesterday cause even though the fever had died down and was mostly gone, Becky started to worry Lilith had gotten dehydrated somewhere along the lines. She had not. She was fine. And thankfully, Lilith is doing much better.
