Knead Some Space: A Paranormal Cozy Mystery (Roswell Mysteries Book 1) by Harley Gordon

Author:Harley Gordon [Gordon, Harley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal, cozy mystery
Publisher: Harley Gordon
Published: 2019-09-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Novah cringed at the funeral dirge playing on the organ. It was the one thing Rachel’s brother had insisted on for the service, saying it was tradition in their family.

Which Novah would’ve checked with Rachel about, but Novah hadn’t seen her ghost friend since the night she disappeared from the roof three days ago.

For three days, life went back to normal. Rachel didn’t visit again with mysterious and vague comments, and Novah didn’t see the slightest glimpse of Agent Smith. She went to work, looked into chupacabras, and planned Rachel’s funeral with very little help from her strange brother, Rogelio.

He was nice enough, but there was something shady about him. He only lived an hour away and it still took him two days to arrive and he had given control over all the decisions to Novah.

She tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, maybe he just wasn’t good at planning, or he was too stricken by grief, but he seemed oddly uncaring that his sister was dead.

He claimed it was because they hadn’t seen each other in years and had never been close, but Novah wasn’t close to her family either and she’d still be upset if she got the call that one of them had died.

Maybe more so because it would have meant there was no more time to reconcile or get any kind of closure.

She was a little surprised he even bothered coming at all since he cared so little about the funeral.

At least until the call from the lawyer came. Then, he was suddenly a little more animated.

Novah was merely confused. The lawyer wanted to meet with her as well. A meeting scheduled for an hour after the wake she was holding at her donut shop. She had no idea what the lawyer possibly needed her for and Rogelio hadn’t looked too pleased when he told her about it.

His emotions were hard to read — all over the place. He went from sad to guilty to jealous to angry to numb in the span of minutes, over and over again.

She had to keep her wall up constantly around him, not able to handle his strange feelings. It was exhausting and she tried to minimize their contact as much as possible, using Talia as a buffer between them.

Here at the funeral was even harder. So many strong emotions and so much pain in one small chapel was too much for Novah to block out completely. Something always snuck through her barriers. They poked and prodded at her shields, leaking grief and disappointment into her, overpowering her own confusion and pain.

Sweat broke out on the back of her neck as she tried to combat it, not a word spoken by the priest registering in her brain. What felt like needles stabbed her temples and chest as she tried the yoga breathing exercises she learned from DVDs she checked out from the library. It helped a little, taking the edge off, giving her enough time to plug in a few of the leaking holes.

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