Nick: Justice Series by Kathi S. Barton

Author:Kathi S. Barton [Barton, Kathi S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: World Castle Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-07-10T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Billy waited for as long as he could before he decided he was leaving. He’d been checking out the Delaney house for several days now, and there wasn’t a ghosty to be found. Not even one that had been hanging around for a while. Just as he started back to the house, a woman came out and stared right at him before she started for him. Billy knew she was dead, so he waited.

“You’re here for this?” She put out the book and he looked down at it. He’d seen one like this before, but it had been decades since he’d even looked at it. “Some fool left it behind. I can’t read, but I know what it is. You want it?”

He took it but was careful to only touch it like she had, on the cover and not the pages. And Billy had an idea who it might belong to, but only slipped it into his pocket. His heart, if he had one beating, would have been pounding a mile a minute.

“You can’t read? How do you make it work for you then?” She told him that hers talked to her. Real polite like, too. “I never heard of such a thing. Do you still have yours? I don’t want it, but I’m just asking. I’ve not seen mine in a coon’s age.”

“They go back, I guess.” He asked her where. “Don’t know. Just back. I heard tell if you didn’t use it no more it just goes back. That person that owned that one, you suppose they know they lost it? That’s a right scary thing to lose, if’n you ask me.”

He agreed. “I think the man in this house was only killed recently. Could be he might not care to have it.” She nodded and looked at the house. “You live here?”

“I used to live on this here land. There was a cemetery here some years ago. Lots of us were there. When they put in the houses, they moved out the bodies they could find, of course, but I still like it here.” He looked at the huge homes and the fancy cars in the drives. “There used to be a few kids around a dozen years or so ago. Now, all those big houses and not a child in a one of them. I’m thinking of moving on to somewhere that’s a bit more friendly.”

“I like where I’m at. Private like, so there’s no cars and such.” He longed to be there now with Steele and Kari and the rest of the men. But he’d been asked to see what he could find here to help out, and by golly, he was going to get what he could. He asked her about family.

“Didn’t have any that I could speak of. I was a slave for so long that I guess we just about believed we’s all family in one way or ‘nother. Was a house maid until the sickness took me. Had no babies of my own that…but raised me up a bunch of them at the big house.

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