Ghost Walk by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, pdf
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2011-06-27T16:00:00+00:00

“Wow,” Mitch said, congratulating Brent.

“I will have to admit, you’ve pretty much shown us up,” Julian had the grace to agree.

“How do you know so much?” Nathan demanded.

Brent gazed at Nikki as he replied, “I was born here.”

“But you’re an Indian,” Patricia interjected, then reddened, realizing how politically incorrect she had been. “I’m sorry…Native American.”

He laughed. “Partly. Part Irish. And my grandfather’s wife was actually of Nordic extraction. My father and mother happened to meet and marry in New Orleans, so even though we traveled a lot, I basically grew up here.”

“You feel like conducting the St. Louis Number 1?” Mitch asked.

Nikki was being silent, and her silence disturbed Brent. He held still for a minute, letting the breeze whisper around him. It was getting late for whoever was going to meet the group at the other cemetery.

He didn’t mind doing the St. Louis tour—though Huey might be a bit disconcerted to see him—but Nikki’s continuing silence disturbed him. She was smiling, but it was a forced smile.

She had seen Andy, he thought.

A flare not so much of anger but futility swept through him. She hadn’t told him.

He should have felt Andy’s presence. He had known that at least a dozen other haunts had been following the tour that day, intrigued. None that he knew, though, and none that could have been Andrea Ciello. She had no intention of making herself known to strangers.

He wanted to shake Nikki and tell her that she had to help him. He took a deep breath.

“Hey, where’d your new girlfriend go?” Patricia suddenly teased Julian.

“She had an appointment to meet her sister,” Julian explained.

“That’s what they all tell me, too,” Mitch said with a sigh.

“I have her phone number,” Julian told him, shaking his head.

“Hey, love and games later,” Patricia said, glancing at her watch. “Time for St. Louis Number 1, guys.”

“So will you lead that one?” Mitch asked.

“If it’s all right with Nikki.”

She shrugged. “Sure. The rest of you can follow Brent around.”

He was thinking of a way to protest, when Patricia beat him to it. “Oh no. You’re the one who talks to the boss. You know damn well that if you say to hire him, that’s exactly what Max will do.”

Nikki shrugged. “Max isn’t here, and we need to fill the slot. So Brent gets the job,” she said simply.

“Then let’s head out,” Mitch said. “I’ve got the van. I’ll drop you in front of Madame’s to greet the hordes.”

“All right,” Brent said.

“We’d better hurry before our group thinks they’re not going to have a guide,” Patricia said.

“I’m sure Madame is watching out for our interests,” Julian said. “But yeah, let’s get going.”

Brent had no chance to talk to Nikki in the van; they were pretty much packed in like sardines. But when they piled out at Madame’s, Nikki seemed to have regained her composure.

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