Giving Up the Ghost by Phoebe Rivers

Author:Phoebe Rivers
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

When someone who wears that much makeup loses all the color from her face, you know you’re onto something.

Then she recovered. She folded her hands and leaned toward me, speaking in a calm, clear voice. “Sara. It is very important that you tell me what just happened to you. Did you have a vision?”

I met her eyes. I could be just as strong. I would tell her, but first she had to tell me what she knew.

“I think you’re keeping something from me,” I said. “I’m not a kid. Well, I mean, I am, but I’m also old enough to handle this. You have to please tell me who Nina Oliver is. Because I have seen her three times.”

She sat back. She looked surprised. I guess I’d never really shown that I had much backbone before. I think I might have been as surprised as she was, but I tried not to show it. I just sat there and didn’t look away.

“Very well. If you have seen that dreadful woman so many times, then you have a right to know.” Lady Azura’s eyes searched my face as she spoke. “I will tell you the story of Nina Oliver.” And with that, she cleared her throat and launched into her story.

“Nina came to visit me many years ago—it was more than twenty years ago, in fact. But she came not as a client, she told me, but as a colleague. She told me that she had a special power. She was able to read people’s minds.”

Lady Azura sat back and regarded me. I nodded, like that information came as no surprise. I mean, I’d seen and heard firsthand the way she read my own mind.

Of course, I could see that Lady Azura registered my response. She continued.

“It started happening to her very suddenly, when she was in her late forties. Her children had grown. She was an attorney at a large law firm, well respected for her keen analytic mind, but, I gathered, not on a partnership track because she was not well liked by her colleagues. I could see why. She was argumentative. Unwilling to listen to what others had to say. Arrogant.

“She came to me, she said, for advice. Her powers came and went sporadically. She wanted to learn to better harness the power, so she could use it to her benefit. But she did not like what I had to say to her. I told her this power was not the gift she believed it to be, but a terrible burden, and a destructive one. I told her I would help her to rid herself of this power, if she so chose.”

Now the second dream I’d had made sense. The one where Nina had given the crystal back. The one where Lady Azura had been urging her—pleading with her, really—to relinquish her power rather than to strengthen it. “So you mean, being able to read minds is always a bad thing?” I asked without meeting her eye.

“Our thoughts belong to us, Sara.

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