Lullaby (Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper Book 7) by JL Bryan

Author:JL Bryan [Bryan, JL]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-07-27T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

We parked outside, in our usual spots. Well, not quite our usual spots, because those had been taken over by black PSI vehicles.

"Do yourself a favor," I told Stacey as we approached the building. "Wait outside for five minutes before you follow me in. That way you might not get swept up in whatever wrath I might have incurred here."

"Forget that," Stacey said. "You've had my back against entities far more dangerous than some whiny anorexic Russian girl."

"What about David Hasselhoffs?"

"I could take like three Hasselhoffs at a time, easy." Stacey raised her fists as we approached the back door of the building.

"How? Do you have some martial arts training I've never heard about?"

"Jazz dance. Three years. All through middle school." She splayed out both arms, flinging out fists on either side of herself, while kicking one leg up and back behind her. "See? I could strike three Hasselhoffs at once, if they come at me in just the right formation."

"I'm glad you're on my side, Stacey. You'd make a formidable enemy."

"Oh, I know." Stacey stayed close behind as I walked through the back door. I'd been walking through that door for years, and I couldn't remember ever feeling so much uncertainty and doubt about what I would find on the other side. It certainly didn't feel like home anymore.

Inside the office, the atmosphere was cold. The little black-clad knots of twos and threes fell silent when I entered, watching me over their glowing tablet screens with flat, distantly curious expressions, like medical students preparing to watch a dissection—and I was the subject getting dissected. Hayden didn't even look up at me from his workstation, which was located directly behind mine.

The construction crew seemed to have left for lunch break, but they'd made incredible progress, throwing up the walls for Kara's new office and setting up wires, plugs, and light switches for the skeletal new room. Of course, there was now much less space in the main workshop area where we usually did everything that mattered.

"Ellie." Kara stepped forward from one of the remaining little knots of youthful dark-suit-clad invaders. Kara had always looked at me coldly, ever since I spoiled her assignment of hosting the spirit of deceased medium Ithaca Galloway, but there was usually some glint of hateful amusement in her pale-fish eyes. Not today, though. Even that tiny glint was gone. Her voice was like an iron boot crunching into snow. "Come."

With those two words, she entered Calvin's old office. I followed, Stacey close behind me. I could feel every eye in the graveyard-silent room watching us. Altogether, there were about half a dozen of the PSI transition team still hanging around, aside from Nicholas and Kara.

Nicholas wasn't anywhere close to Kara now, but instead lingered with the other people he'd been speaking with, and he looked stricken and pale in a way I'd never seen from him before. Though he was always pale, I suppose, being a native of a cold, rainy northern island. England

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