Rocks & Gravel (Peri Jean Mace Ghost Thrillers Book 3) by Catie Rhodes

Author:Catie Rhodes [Rhodes, Catie]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Long Roads and Dark Ends Press
Published: 2016-01-27T05:00:00+00:00

11

I trudged through the dark alleys and across an unlit side street to get to my car, crossing into the pitch black parking lot behind the Catholic church.

“You embarrassed me tonight.” Dean’s voice coming out of the dark scared me into dropping my phone. I caught it before it smacked down on the concrete parking lot. “I stood around waiting and waiting at the Main Street Association meeting, and you never showed. I tried to call you and no answer.”

I glanced at my phone and saw I had five missed calls and five voice messages from Dean. I cringed. I’d been so wrapped up with Mysti and Brad, I never even heard it.

“I’m sorry. Something came up. The whole thing slipped my mind.”

“I was worried about you, so I called your grandmother. She told me you’d gone out with some people I never heard of before.” He slid off the hood of my car and walked toward me. I stood my ground, my heart speeding away in my chest. “I went looking for you. Saw you drive to this parking lot with those weirdos right behind you, stand around talking a while, and then go in Bullfrog’s.”

My cheeks and lips went numb as adrenaline rushed through my veins. I swallowed hard. After all the trouble I went to, the one person in the world I didn’t want finding out what I was up to had seen me.

“What? The three of you go drinking in Bullfrog’s?” He jammed his hands on his hips the way he did when he was super pissed. “You said something came up. What was it? Your friends looked like a couple of burnouts.”

Anger caught fire and burned quickly, warming my insides, eating away some of the tiredness. Dean didn’t know Mysti or Brad. He’d simply made a judgment about them because he was Mr. Cop, and he knew all about everybody with a glance.

“The woman’s been under treatment at a mental health facility. She just left today.” It wouldn’t do to tell him she’d been driven batshit by an evil spirit—who happened to be my father, by the way—and her brother broke her out so I could use my black opal to banish said spirit.

“She was probably in there for abusing drugs. The guy’s probably her dealer.” Certainty hardened the lines around Dean’s eyes and thinned his lips. This was his cop face, and it made me want to punch him in the throat. Working with people gave him a lot of practice, but sometimes he missed the mark, and when he did, he couldn’t be budged even if someone proved him wrong. My general policy was to let it go. Arguing with him wasted minutes of my life I’d never get back. I was in enough of a mood to try to teach a goat to floss if it came up.

“Mysti is not a dope head,” I said. “She had a mental breakdown.”

“Whatever.” He turned away from me.

“Why don’t we change your name to Dean

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