Evil Eye by Alyssa Day

Author:Alyssa Day [Day, Alyssa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781948253147
Goodreads: 43169510
Publisher: Holliday Publishing, LLC
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

10

Thankfully, Aunt Ruby had been too busy with Shelley and the history fair to hear any of the bad news, so we'd be able to have a peaceful dinner, or at least as peaceful as dinner with an excited little girl could be. I started to tell her I'd met a real pirate, since her history fair exhibit was about pirate gold in central Florida, but I couldn’t figure out a way to do it that didn't involve talking about ghosts or dead bodies, so I let it go. Maybe if Arneaux quit framing me for murder, so we could have a civilized talk some day, I could introduce him to Shelley.

I suddenly realized I was contemplating introducing a murderous pirate to my kid sister and, ghost or no ghost, it was a terrible idea. Especially since he'd proven he could affect things in the physical world. What if he went nuts and did something to hurt her?

No way. If I learned anything from him, I'd tell her myself and leave him far, far out of it.

I made a salad and then sat down and enjoyed letting everyone else do the cooking, because Jack and Uncle Mike were already fighting over who was the better grill master, Aunt Ruby had brought side dishes and desserts with her, and Shelley and I were battling over a hard-fought game of Scrabble.

"Burfi is not a word! You're totally cheating!"

She giggled and shook her head, her pigtails flying. "It is, too. It's a kind of Indian candy. Computer Scrabble on my phone played it against me once, and I looked it up."

"Fine. But sixty-two points? You're crushing me, you little Burfi." I put my hand over my heart and faked swooning back onto the couch. Lou stared down at me, probably in disbelief that her humans were so undignified. Any minute, though, Uncle Mike or Jack would come in and she'd be all "rub my belly," so she had no room to judge.

Shelley jumped on me, so then I had to tickle her, and when we were both breathless with laughter, I looked up to see Jack standing perfectly still in the doorway, staring at us with something that looked like longing in his beautiful green eyes. As soon as he caught me watching him, the look disappeared, and he grinned at Shelley. "Come on, kid. Dinner's ready, and we need to feed you up, so you have the strength to demolish all those other kids at the history fair."

She giggled again and, Scrabble forgotten, ran over to jump into Jack's arms for a hug. "Oh, Jack. You're so silly."

"That's me," he said easily, giving her a hug. "Silly Jack."

When Shelley scampered off to the kitchen, he held out a hand to me. "Come on, ghost buster. Let's eat."

I let him pull me up off the couch, which put me closer to him than I'd intended. My breath caught in my throat in an involuntary reaction to, well, Jack. His forest and sunshine scent, his warmth, his strength.

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