Secrets by Jordan Castillo Price

Author:Jordan Castillo Price
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: M/M Paranormal, Source: Amazon
Publisher: JCP Books
Published: 2008-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

-ELEVEN-

The elevator doors whooshed open on the third floor and the nurse at the desk quickly looked away when I made eye contact with her. Someone must have told her I was a medium, maybe the patrolmen. “Male or female?” said Lisa. She didn’t seem to notice or care what sort of impression we made, which was probably good, given what she was wearing. She also seemed convinced that the Elevator Ghost was significant. “Male,” I said. “African-American. Medium complexion, gray hair. Between sixty and seventy. Five ten, average build. Dark clothes, kind of dirty. He looked like a homeless guy.”

We passed the desk and went down the hall. The two officers stood outside 304, looking a lot less relaxed then they had the first time we’d seen them. There wasn’t a coffee cup in sight.

“Did he say anything?”

“No. He only looked at me. I guess…he wasn’t a repeater. Because there was definite awareness and eye contact.”

“You should try to find him, talk to him. Maybe he saw something that the video cameras didn’t pick up.” The officers stood back without a word as we opened the door.

“Oh, okay, I’ll just look him up in the dead directory.” Inside the room, Carolyn and Jacob were seated in front of the laptop at an angle where both of them could see it. They looked up as we came through the door. Jacob tried to look as if he wasn’t completely fascinated by the tail end of our conversation, and failed miserably. It was a very slightly raised eyebrow, but by now I could read his cop-faces pretty well.

I dropped the subject. It wasn’t so much that I wanted to hide it from Jacob. It’s just that the predatory side of him was starting to trip my self-preservation mechanism.

Jacob looked at me for a moment, and then switched his attention to Lisa. “Do you need anything? Coffee? Water?” I couldn’t tell if he was still being a gentleman or if he was trying to butter up Lisa for an extra si-no. I’d told her Jacob would play by the rules, but he probably wasn’t above trying to bend them.

“I’m fine. Ask.”

Carolyn stood up and crossed her arms at the waist, cupping her opposite elbows. “Was Irene raped Monday night?” she asked.

Lisa almost blurted something out, but then she stopped herself. Her eyebrows knit. Then she looked confused.

Carolyn and Jacob both leaned forward.

“I don’t know.”

“Then that question doesn’t count,” said Jacob.

“Hold on,” I said. “It sure as hell does. The answer might not be definite, but it’s still an answer. It means that it’s both, or neither, or totally subjective. Am I right?”

Lisa nodded mutely.

“You probably got more from that answer than you would have for either a yes or a no,” I insisted. I did my best to act indignant.

“All right,” said Carolyn, “fine. But we’ll need more time to figure out our other two questions. We’d only banked on a yes or a no.”

“Come on,” I told Lisa. I grabbed her by the elbow.

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