Charmed Spirits by Carrie Ann Ryan

Author:Carrie Ann Ryan [Ryan, Carrie Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Fated Desires Publishing, LLC
Published: 2012-09-22T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Matt’s worst nightmare stood in front of him, her gaze never straying from him. Or rather, her gaze locked through him. Fucking shit. He hadn’t expected Jordan to be here tonight.

How was he supposed to deal with this? What should he say?

Fuck.

“Matt?” she whispered, her lower lip trembling.

Oh, shit, she couldn’t cry. He wouldn’t be able to handle it. Yeah, he, like most men, couldn’t handle women crying, but he definitely couldn’t handle the tears that were flooding Jordan’s eyes right now.

He took a deep breath—something really fucking odd to do when he was a ghost because everything was about fifty degrees cooler in this form—and nodded.

“Yeah, baby. It’s me.”

Subtle. Nice.

“You’re a…you’re…” She blinked again and looked a little unsteady on her feet. Fuck, he couldn’t touch her to help her.

“A ghost,” he finished for her. “I find it easier to just say it rather than beat around the bush. That doesn’t make it any less real.”

She lowered herself to the floor, her face a bit awestruck, her eyes wide, and her mouth open. “How…when?”

“I don’t know how, baby.” He held a hand up to her and traced her jaw about two inches away from her face.

“Cold…”

He swiped his hand back and cursed. “I’m sorry.”

She gulped and shook her head, visibly pulling herself together, though tears still filled her eyes. “You can’t touch me, can you?”

He gave a weak smile and shook his head. “No, I can’t.”

“But you’re touching the floor. How is that possible?”

“I can touch everything in this house. I can also walk through everything if I wanted to, but I have to think about it.”

“But what about outside the house?”

“I can’t go outside, Jor.”

“What do you mean?”

“If I go outside when I’m like this, it’s hard to come back from wherever the hell I go. So hard in fact, I might not come back. If I’m not here, then I can’t get back to my physical form.”

If possible, her eyes widened even more, and she took a shuddering breath. “Matt…” She choked back a sob then shook her head and took a deep breath. “Why didn’t you tell me?”

He shook his head, the cool drafts of the house flowing through him and sending chills down his translucent body. “I couldn’t, Jor. I haven’t been able to tell anyone.”

“Your brothers?”

He tried to smile. “No, not even them.”

“But you tell each other everything. The Coopers are the closest family I know.”

“I can’t, Jor.”

She wiped her cheeks and nodded. “I understand… I think. I just wish you didn’t have to bear this alone.”

A slight weight lifted off his shoulders at the thought that she knew and wasn’t running. Someone else knew his secret and she was handling it, at least as well as could be expected.

Jordan stood up, walked to the living room, and sat on one of the couches covered with a tarp. Dust flew around her, and she coughed.

“Sorry about that. I haven’t been too much into cleaning.”

“I wouldn’t think so.” She straightened her shoulders and got that look she always had when she was trying to figure out a problem, namely, him.

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