Exed & Hexed: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel (Midlife Matchmaker Magic Book 1) by Kat McGee & Robbi Hess

Author:Kat McGee & Robbi Hess [McGee, Kat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal Women's Fiction
Publisher: Towering Pines Publishing
Published: 2022-01-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

The shock of seeing the well-dressed ghostly man appear before them jarred through Vanessa as if she’d stepped on an exposed electrical wire. With a keening moan, she scooted back and, along with Rose and Julie, bolted upright.

“This is how you treat my generous offer?” His voice boomed through the shop as if magnified by a bullhorn.

“Generous offer?” Julie’s laugh, since she learned they could both see ghosts and hear them speak, echoed in maniacal tones. “Look, Larry, you’re a freak show who’s been haunting the earth for far too long, and our friend isn’t going anywhere with you.”

“Julie, don’t antagonize him!” Tone pitched shrill, Rose swayed on her feet.

“For you to off me so we can be together?” Vanessa glared until the muscles around her eyes twitched. “I don’t think so.”

In a blink, the spirit vanished, and an invisible icy-cold grip bracketed Vanessa’s outer arms. A force lifted her off the ground, and her shocked exhale puffed white vapor. She couldn’t speak. With a darting, wide gaze, she searched for whatever had a hold of her. She clawed at nothingness, while squirming and kicking to free herself.

Rose shouted words Vanessa couldn’t understand.

A shaky breath later, Vanessa’s feet touched the ground. Her knees gave, and she wilted to the floor. Hunched on her hands and knees, she clawed at her throat and sucked in air.

“I’ve offered you eternal existence,” Lawrence von Chesterfield’s voice seeped from everywhere and nowhere, “and you thwart me.”

“You are delusional,” Julie said. “Delusional and dead and need to go back to whatever fresh plot of Hades you came from.”

“Jules!” Both Rose and Vanessa shouted at the same time.

As a gold filigree picture frame lanced toward Julie’s head, Rose and Vanessa dashed over to grab her, dragging her to the ground. Julie yelped when her knees banged into the hardwood floor. “What the—”

The frame clattered to the ground next to her. Glass shattered, the frame dented and twirled aside in a spread of glass shards.

“Let’s move!” Rose shouted, grappling with the book and the grimoire. In quick succession, she snatched up the brooches from atop the book and handed them out. “Put them on. Wear them. It can’t hurt, right?”

The ghost began to fade in and out of view, then appeared more smoke-like. He swooped toward the ceiling to swirl above their heads in the area where the other spirits had gathered.

The hair lifted along the nape of Vanessa’s neck. “What did we unleash?”

Rose, looking guilty, dropped her gaze. “A poltergeist, I think.”

“Not your fault.” Vanessa led the scramble toward the safety of her office. They dodged flying shoes, books, purses, teapots, china, and other items in Vanessa’s inventory—her only chance at keeping a roof over her head. The items crashed, slammed and ricocheted around the store.

“You can’t get away, Vanessa,” Lawrence bellowed. “You were promised to me!”

Julie fumbled to open the office door. In desperate lunges, they slid inside, slamming the likely useless door behind them.

“Isn’t it truly Arabella you want? Isn’t she the love you’ve been waiting for all these years?” Vanessa shouted.

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