Chasing Happy by Jenni M Rose

Author:Jenni M Rose [Rose, Jenni M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jenni M Rose
Published: 2017-10-08T16:00:00+00:00

After the scene in the barn Dallas stopped them outside.

“Listen, you all have some seriously freaky shit going on here and I don’t want to intrude but I was hoping we could talk about the dead lady.”

“Jesus, Dallas,” Max muttered.

“What? You guys want to play out The Notebook all over the place, that’s cool. But I can’t shake that shit from the cove the other day. So, let’s get it all out on the table. Rosie sees dead people. There’s a ghost following her around and driving her nuts. Seems like the bottom line is to try to get rid of it. Right?”

Rosie shook her head. “Seems simple, right?”

“I take it, it’s not that easy,” Max said.

“It could be,” she shrugged. “It’s not like I have conversations with her. I have no idea what she really wants. All I know is she knows I can see her and she’s trying to get my attention.”

“By dragging you down to the cove all the time,” Max said.

“I guess.” She pulled a face. “Sometimes she yells at me to help her. But a few times she mentioned helping Jack.”

“A husband? Son?” Dallas guessed. “Could be anyone.”

She breathed deep. “I think her husband killed her.”

Dallas’s head reared back. “Wait, what?”

“When I saw,” she hesitated and shook her head. There was no easy way to describe what she’d seen. And there was definitely no easy way to forget how closely it had resembled her own experience with her mother. “When I saw her die, there was a man above her squeezing her neck and holding her under the water.”

Dallas stared at her.

Max moved to stand behind her, sliding an arm around her chest, and kissed the back of her head.

“Under the water.” Dallas snapped out of his momentary stupor. “Under the water at the cove? Is that why she keeps bringing you there?”

“No.” She knew with certainty. “I think she’s at the cove, for sure, somewhere. But that isn’t where she died. There’s a stream that runs through the woods and it has a few small places where it pools. It’s in there.”

“You saw that?” Max asked gently.

She swallowed and looked away, hating the memory burned into her mind. “I can see the trees behind his head while he’s choking me and holding me down.”

“Her,” Max corrected immediately. “While he’s holding her down.”

She nodded, though it was hard to separate herself from the vision. “Yeah.”

“I’m confused,” Dallas said. “I thought you said you see her. Are you saying that you like, see through her eyes?”

She shook her head again. “Not usually. It’s happened before though, when I touch them.”

“You got close enough to this lady that you touched her?” Dallas’s demeanor was intense, his aura that had been merely a wisp before was becoming darker and more vivid.

“That was the accident she had on her bike,” Max told him, his arm still around her. She reached her hands up and held onto his forearm, glad for his support. “The woman was in the road so Rosie dumped her bike to avoid her, but ended up sliding right through her.

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