SEALed Forever by Mary Margret Daughtridge

Author:Mary Margret Daughtridge
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2011-05-04T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Hence, to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.

—Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“I’ve decided to catch your ghost,” Garth told Bronwyn when she opened the screen door wider to let him into the kitchen. JJ and Doc had left after the lunch of takeout barbecue.

Since then, Bronwyn had showered, and as Garth entered, he made brushing by her into an opportunity to inhale the spicy, floral, feminine smell of her hair. It hung in a straight deep-red curtain to her shoulders. She’d changed into a short skirt the color of ripe apricots that showed off her smooth legs and a white, sleeveless girly thing that tied with a ribbon just under her darling little breasts.

After raiding a back room at the airstrip for the equipment he was going to need, Garth had showered, too. And figured shaving again couldn’t hurt. And he’d changed into chinos and a crayon-red, crisp, polished-cotton shirt.

Bronwyn rolled her eyes. “Don’t start with the ghost again.”

“Kidding. I’m talking about finding a rational explanation. If you knew what was causing it, you’d feel better, right?”

Garth had wrestled with himself. Davy had told him to rescue her. This was the best idea he could come up with. But if he had any sense, he’d do what he could to make the ghostly presence worse. After all, it was in his best interest for her to be uncomfortable in the house. When he returned to operating as a SEAL, she would have to move sooner or later to wherever he was stationed.

He thanked his lucky socks he’d found her the very day she moved in, before anything was set in stone. If she’d been here several years, spent thousands renovating the house, and had a thriving practice and lots of friendships, persuading her to relocate would have been more difficult, maybe even impossible. He didn’t want her decision to join her life to his to be painful, so it only made sense to keep her from getting in too deep.

Still, he wanted to eradicate the strained expression that darkened her eyes every time the subject of a ghost came up—and somehow, making her feel better mattered more.

She shrugged, then smiled. Unconvincingly. “I guess. I really just want it to go away, but my next choice would be finding an explanation.”

“The webcam for the baby’s room gave me the idea. We can do like the TV show Ghost Hunters. I can mount closed-circuit cameras around the house.”

She emitted something between a groan and a chuckle. “First, because of you, I was in a spy thriller. Now, you want to make my life imitate reality TV. If that isn’t proof this is bizarre, nothing can be.”

Garth tried not to let that hurt, but it did. Still, he looked for another means of persuading her. “Where’s Julia?”

“Upstairs napping in her new crib. She’ll be waking up soon.”

“And you’re keeping an eye on her with the webcam?”

Bronwyn pointed to the open laptop.

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