Ghost Layer by Robin D. Owens

Author:Robin D. Owens
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2014-08-04T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-ONE

CLARE RESPONDED TELEPATHICALLY to the ghost. I can see that. Your mother is the lady in black silk? she asked.

The boy worried his lower lip. She wears pretty clothes. I can hear her crying, but I can’t go to her and she won’t come to me! I’m stuck. WE’RE stuck.

Enzo licked the boy’s hand. Clare took a sip of water. I can . . . get you unstuck.

He said you could. The child petted Enzo.

“Are you talking to them?” Mr. Laurentine asked. “Not much to watch, is she?” he muttered.

Clare jumped. “Can you please not distract me?”

“What’s his name?” asked Mr. Laurentine.

That was a good question.

My name is Samuel Graw. The child apparition made a little bow.

“Samuel Graw,” Clare repeated.

“Make a note of that, Clare,” Mr. Laurentine ordered.

If she sent Samuel and his mother on, Clare would experience a few of their memories, certainly know their names, and wouldn’t forget. She took a deep breath and sloughed off the irritation of Dennis Laurentine’s comment. Bracing herself, she walked forward and offered her hand to Samuel. “I am Clare Cermak.”

He put his small and frigid hand in hers and she felt his fingers and emotions rush from him to her . . . and she understood that this was not just a remnant of a person, but a fully trapped spirit. She shuddered and he dropped her hand, but she still felt the sorrow, a deep yearning, and patience beyond what she’d ever experienced. The being who’d been Samuel had grown after his death.

Do other ghosts visit you? Clare asked. Maybe the boy would have information on J. Dawson, though the prospector had died about two decades before Samuel.

No. I see people and spirits but no one has come except for the doggie.

I will be back with your mother shortly, she promised.

His eyes shone with a glimmer of dampness and unearthly light.

It is hard to wait. The small voice was back. But I can.

“You are a strong and determined spirit. I won’t be long,” Clare said aloud, praising him for all to hear.

“Huh,” said Rossi.

Zach put his hand on her shoulder, squeezed a bit, and stared at the ghost, no doubt seeing the boy due to her connection. “Cute kid,” he said.

The boy grinned and ducked his head. I’ll watch at the window. Soon my mother will come. Now I knowww, and that sound seemed to echo in the room. Rossi shivered.

Enzo barked and ran into the room near the window. I will wait with you, so you are not alone, and can’t fear you’ll be left behind again. It is very hard to be left behind. Go get his mama, Clare.

“We’re off to the train station and the lady in black silk, then,” Zach stated to all the others who’d stayed in the hallway.

“What happened in there?” asked Baxter Hawburton. The rancher was the closest to the top of the stairs.

“I met Samuel,” Clare said and hurried past him and down the steps. “As I said before, he is the son of the lady in black silk at the train station.

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