Ghost of Retribution (Medium Trouble Book 4) by Alice Winters

Author:Alice Winters [Winters, Alice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-11-19T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

HIRO

“So this is what you spent all your money on?”

I jerk back, dropping the keys to my bookstore in my surprise. “Was not expecting you here,” I say as my grandpa raises an eyebrow.

“Didn’t know I was so ugly that a single glance at me would terrify you,” he comments.

“You’re definitely not ugly,” Natalie says with a wink.

“That is my grandpa,” I hiss. “Don’t flirt with my grandpa.”

“You had no problem with me flirting with him before you knew he was your grandpa. Now you’re just being picky. You let us play strip chess.”

“I’m just really glad he didn’t start stripping!” I cry.

Grandpa looks offended by that, and I have the feeling it’s because he’s quite confident he’d never be bad enough at chess to have to strip.

“Who is stripping? When? And where?” Reggie asks as he appears. “Keaton, they said right now.”

“They didn’t say right now,” Keaton grumbles.

“They totally said, ‘Keaton, strip right now.’”

“They totally didn’t.”

“What is going on here?” Grandpa asks.

I give him a confused look, not quite sure what he’s referring to. “With?”

“Your life in general, I guess. Like… is she what you call… your side piece?” he asks as he motions toward Natalie.

“No, that’s Keaton,” I say as I toss a finger Keaton’s way. “We are madly in love, but the ghost thing kind of makes it a bit awkward.”

“I see,” Grandpa says. “Kids nowadays are so strange. I mean… your grandma and I had our fair share of threesomes, but at least everyone could see each other.”

I stare at him.

“What?”

“I’m just assuming you’re joking and moving on from this topic,” I say.

Instead of assuring me that he is, he orders, “Show me around.”

“Uh, okay… I like that idea better than whatever was just happening,” I say as I lead him into my bookshop. I’ve been back from Japan for about two weeks now, and since Maddox hasn’t needed me at work for anything beyond an occasional thing here and there, I’ve mostly been working at the shop. Since my employee Barry covered for me while I was gone, he took a week off to focus on his schooling and some test but is back to working some evenings and weekends.

“So this is my bookstore. It’s small, but it does quite well since I try to keep popular and new books steadily coming in. It saves quite a few people a drive.”

“I was assuming it was an adult bookstore with the type of friends you choose to hang around. Do you have any living friends?”

“Uh… yeah… of course,” I say as I pop open a box and start pulling books out while hoping he doesn’t ask me to name any of my living friends. “Why don’t we talk about you? Why’d you hate your ability to speak to the dead so much that you hid it from your kids, and in return, your own daughter didn’t understand her child?”

Grandpa watches me as I begin to arrange the books I’ve removed from the box on the stand.

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