Awakened with a Touch by Kessily Lewel

Author:Kessily Lewel [Lewel, Kessily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blushing Books Publications
Published: 2017-10-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

He appeared in front of her, watching silently as she chewed on the end of her pen, thinking. Her eyes were narrowed in concentration, and after a few seconds, she scratched some of the words out and wrote something else in their place. She was so focused that she didn't notice his arrival until he cleared his throat, and then her gaze shot up.

She started to smile, ready to greet him as she always did, but then she remembered she was in trouble and her bottom lip trembled nervously. "Hi," she said quietly.

"Hello, April." He took a seat on the edge of the desk, looking down to see what she was writing. "Ways to earn money?" he asked, reading the first line.

"Yeah, just some ideas, in case we don't make enough from the virtual reality experience." He looked blank and she wondered if he even knew what virtual reality was. "The game Elizabeth is making, I mean. The new contract says I get part of the profits, but if it doesn't sell well, that's not going to help much. So, I was trying to think of some other ways to pay the bills."

"Ah." He leaned closer, reading what she'd come up with. "Some of these are interesting. Though I'm not entirely sure what a 'B&B' is," he said, tapping the one that she'd starred and circled with his finger.

"Oh! Bed and Breakfast! It means we'd take in guests for a night or two. Kind of like a hotel but more personal. I've heard some places that are supposed to be haunted do that and make a lot of money, especially around Halloween. People want to sleep in a real haunted house with a chance to see a ghost," she explained. She'd gotten the idea from watching a documentary about the infamous Lizzy Borden and she thought it might just work.

After all, the house was fully decorated with beautiful furnishings and there were a ton of bedrooms upstairs that weren't going to be used otherwise. The invasion of strangers in the house would be difficult to get used to, but she thought she could manage. The mansion was big enough that a few guests wouldn't make her feel crowded, she hoped. Though she did worry about some of the more violent spirits.

It would give the customers what they thought they wanted, but she had a feeling that glass smashing an inch from their feet might send them running for the door. That was another reason to look into clearing the house of all but John, once she owned it.

"A boarding house? You would turn my home into a boarding house?" he asked. One eyebrow went up in surprise, but he didn't seem angry, just thoughtful.

She leaned back and shrugged. "It's just an idea, but it would help support the house and maybe—" She hesitated for a second and then continued, "Maybe it would keep me from feeling isolated as the only living person in the house." Of course, in another

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