Jaxson's Song by Angie West

Author:Angie West
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: romance, ghosts, friends, paranormal, sisters, dance, florida, haunted, sunshine, inheritance

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Jaxson stood on the porch in shorts, a sequined teal tank top, and a pair of the most ridiculous flip-flops he had ever seen. He’d scowled when Jake had shown up earlier in the day, bearing a plastic Walmart sack full of taupe hosiery and the gaudy footwear. The large plastic sunflower on the top of each sandal practically obscured his entire foot, and the flip-flops themselves were made of some kind of hard, clear, glittery green gel-looking stuff. Then again, after a weekend of G-strings and heels, overblown hair and wig caps that itched like hell, what were a couple of plastic sunflowers?

His gaze strayed, again, to the house next door. Kate’s car sat in the driveway and hadn’t moved since three thirty that afternoon. Not that he’d been paying attention. Not that he cared about her comings and goings. The way she slammed her car door made it impossible not to notice her arrival. That was all. Earlier, around five, when he and Jake had been in the dining room, sharing a pizza and splitting a six-pack, he’d heard music coming from her house. Something loud and pulsing that wasn’t unlike the crap they played at the club. Kate’s house had been quiet for several hours now…

He squinted through the gloom and the lingering clouds that all afternoon had threatened rain but hadn’t delivered. A faint amber glow shone through the curtains at damn near every first floor window, but he couldn’t make out anything of the rooms inside.

Jake’s boot heels thudded across the porch and Jaxson turned in time to see his uncle sling an overnight bag across one shoulder and take the porch steps two at a time. Jake was pushing sixty, but the man’s easy gait still belied his age.

“When are you coming back?” he asked, forcibly tearing his gaze from his neighbor’s house.

“Gonna miss me, are ya, boy?”

Jaxson snorted.

His uncle sobered. “I’m only spending a couple of days with your aunt. Three at the most. If you have any problems…”

“I won’t.”

Jake was visibly skeptical. Again, Jaxson’s attention strayed to Kate’s porch, where a shape shifted and moved in the darkness. His fists clenched and he started forward only to be brought up short an instant later when it was Kate’s cat that materialized from the shadowy far corner of the porch and not some intruder.

Jake raised a brow at glanced from his nephew to the cat.

“My neighbor had a break-in last night. I thought I saw something over there. It was just the cat.”

Jake tossed his duffel into the back seat of the Buick before walking back to Jaxson and leaning in close. “I mean it, Jax. Watch your ass.” He lowered his voice. “Word is, our guy’s finally taken an interest in you.”

“Yeah?” Jaxson grunted, trying to appear nonchalant, but inside, his senses were piqued and instantly at full-alert.

“Undercovers tailed him here last night. He followed you home, circled the block twice after you’d gone in. Keep your eyes and ears open, boy.

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