Grave Echoes: A Kate Waters Mystery by Erin Cole

Author:Erin Cole
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-10-02T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

Exhausted from the wake, Kate drove home on auto-pilot, half remembering streets and lights she’d turned on and stopped at. Her mind drifted in and out of the present and past, churning her troubles like an old water wheel, splashing cold reality repeatedly. She noticed the lights off in the house as she pulled into the driveway and wondered if David was sleeping.

Kate locked the jeep and headed to the front door, slowing as she noticed something red spilled on the porch. She stepped up to the front door, pulse quickened and mind fixed at what lay before her. Rose petals? She opened the door to find the house softly lit with candles dancing amber waves along the walls and warming the rooms with romance. Kate smiled, hung up her coat, and went into the kitchen where something appetizing cooked.

David stood over the stove stirring a pot of soup. “Hey, how’d it go?”

“It went well.” She gave him a kiss, small and soft. He still had a large bandage over his forehead, and his eye had darkened to the color of eggplant. “How’s your head?”

“Great, when I take my pain killers.” He gave her a wild, crazed stare.

Kate laughed and peeked into the pot. “Potato soup, my favorite.”

“I know it is.” He put his hand on her back. “So, tell me what happened?”

“I had an interesting encounter with Thea, Jev’s witch friend.”

“Oh yeah.” Kate handed him a card.

“She works at Walter Biddy’s?”

“Yup.” Kate sipped on the soup from a large, wooden spoon. The hearty aroma made her stomach growl and she realized she hadn’t eaten a real meal since before the wake.

“So you think she’s the one who broke in. Did you find out why?”

“No, but I did catch her snooping for a book in Jev’s room.” She dropped the spoon back in the pot and gave it a stir.

David handed her a bowl. “She must not have found what she was looking for the other night.”

“Maybe, but…,” Kate stopped when a screeching hissed from the hallway. She set the bowl aside.

Lucy growled, a long and guttural warning of something unwelcome. Kate felt her skin prickle as she exchanged a puzzled look with David. They both crept into the hallway where Lucy snarled. David halted Kate with an outstretched hand. “Wait,” he whispered.

Lucy crouched against the wall, her back arched high, tail flicking back and forth like a cobra ready to strike. But nothing was there, except for the bureau and a coat hung over the stairway railing.

“Lucy…,” Kate started to say, but David hushed her again, putting a finger to his pursed lips. She didn’t like the look in his eyes—they glinted with fear.

Lucy’s growl intensified. Her paw, equipped with five mini white scythes, reached up to protect herself.

“She must smell something,” David whispered. Just as Kate was about to dismiss her behavior to typical cat spooks, a breeze blew past her, blowing out the candles in the hallway and living room. The house fell unnaturally dark and silent.

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