Jane Davitt & Alexa Snow - Ghost 03 - Waking the Dead by Jane Davitt & Alexa Snow

Author:Jane Davitt & Alexa Snow [Davitt, Jane & Snow, Alexa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

He groaned and rolled onto his side. Josh was lying crumpled a few feet away, almost near enough to touch, and Nick -- John’s heart gave a sickly throb until he saw him, half propped up against the wall and stirring now, one hand rising to touch his face gingerly.

“All right?” John asked Nick, forcing himself to his hands and knees and crawling closer to Josh.

“I think so. Josh?”

“He’s out cold.” John was afraid to move the boy too much, in case he was hurt in ways he couldn’t see, but he touched Josh’s face. “Josh? Come on, lad. Wake up now.”

Nick came over and dropped to his knees beside them. “Josh? Joshua.”

Another thirty seconds or so of persistence on their parts, and finally Josh blinked and groaned. He opened his eyes, closed them again.

“Josh,” Nick said firmly.

Josh opened his eyes again. “Nick?”

“Yeah. It’s okay. Just take it easy. Don’t try to --”

But Josh was already trying to sit up. Nick made a frustrated sound and helped him, shifting to give the boy something to lean against. “Is he really gone? Is that -- I mean. I don’t know.” He sounded half addled, and with good reason from what John could tell.

“Out of you and gone from here, but not gone altogether,” John told him. “He -- both of them -- they’re inside that poor man.” He shuddered. “I’m not sure they liked being apart. I’m thinking this is better for them.”

“It’s not better for Fred,” Nick said. “Josh barely kept his head above water, and if I had to guess, I’d say what he can do helped him with that.” It made sense, and John gave Nick an encouraging nod. “But Fred… he didn’t seem that strong a personality to start with, and he’s got two spirits in there now.”

“So he’s drowning.” John swallowed and tried not to think of how that would feel. He’d fallen overboard once and sunk deep, but he’d got back to the surface. Somehow, he wasn’t sure Fred ever would.

“Is that boy drunk like that man who just barged into me?” John turned. Marion Macready was staring down at Josh with her thin face pinched with disapproval, gray hair pinned back in a bun as tight as her lips. “All that yelling and that man nearly knocked me flying when I came to see if I could help…”

Came to nose around and get a juicy bit of gossip to pass on and wave under my mother’s nose the next time you see her. Josh, who must have been listening in, gave a small snort of laughter, and John frowned a warning at him.

“No.” Nick was running a hand through Josh’s hair, no doubt checking to see if he’d given himself a goose egg when he’d fallen, and he seemed to only be half paying attention to what he was saying. “He slipped on something. You know what tourists can be like.”

That was funny, because some of the islanders still didn’t think of Nick as much more than a tourist himself, and Marion was one of them.

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