Karma's Spirit: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel (Magical Midlife in Mystic Hollow Book 3) by Lacey Carter & L.A. Boruff & Helen Scott

Author:Lacey Carter & L.A. Boruff & Helen Scott [Carter, Lacey & Boruff, L.A. & Scott, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-11T04:00:00+00:00

SIXTEEN

Emma

The man was going on and on. No matter what we did, he wouldn’t stop. We were supposed to be rapidly going through the names on our list to figure out our suspects, but we’d realized this man wasn’t a bad guy within a minute. We couldn’t keep wasting time with him, but I was starting to think the only way out was to scream and run for it.

We have to get out of here, good grief! I exchanged another frustrated glance with Carol. She and I had decided to tag team part of our list, while Beth and Deva hit their part of the list.

We’d made it to our second-to-last name on the list, but he was a dud. And now as we kept trying to get into the car, he wouldn’t stop talking to us. “Yeah, I was about two years below you in school,” he said. “What a good time we always had.”

“Yeah,” I said, even though all I remembered about him was that he was tiny, talkative, and odd then too. I’d always been polite, but he’d drive me a bit crazy then too.

I guess that hadn’t changed.

“Well, we should—” Carol tried to say we should leave, but he interrupted her.

“You know, a lot of my crew had a crush on you, Emma,” he stuffed his hands in his pockets and kicked the ground a little. “But you had to go and marry an out of towner. You broke a lot of hearts.”

Me? I hadn’t been popular at all! What was this guy talking about? “Um, I didn’t know that.” I shouldn't have said that. I should’ve said goodbye.

“Well, you were human,” he said. “And off limits. Though some of the guys seriously considered breaking the rules for you. We even had a conversation back then about telling you about our world.”

Man, I tried to picture them telling me about all this as a teenager. I probably would have just thought they were on drugs. Still, if I said that now, I had a feeling he’d launch into a discussion about drugs.

“Well,” I said brightly. “It was nice to see you.”

He tried to say something else, but I looked away and talked right over him, hoping that he wouldn’t take the snub too harshly. We really were in a hurry though. “Hope to run into you soon, but we’ve got to go!”

Carol and I dove into the car before he could push us to talk about something else. He was still talking as we drove away, waving, with smiles plastered on our faces. He followed us for a few steps before he seemed to relent and just wave back. He seemed lonely, as though we were the first people he’d talked to in days, even though I doubted that was the case. Still if you never had any meaningful conversations then sometimes it felt like you could make up for it with the quantity instead.

“Geez,” Carol said when we pulled out of the neighborhood. “Jackson is a good guy, but the brownie part of him overwhelms his mouth and he talks incessantly.

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