Tangible Spirits by Becki Willis

Author:Becki Willis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal, ghosts, haunted houses, reporter, amateur slueth, contemporary love story, innkeeper, award winning, Jerome
Publisher: Becki Willis
Published: 2018-10-29T00:00:00+00:00

“YOU REALLY GO FOR THE bad boys, don’t you?” Loretta said, shaking her head with disappointment. “Poor Jake doesn’t stand a chance, does he?”

The waitress’ tendency to butt in grated on Gera’s nerves. “Two things,” she said, indicating them with her fingers. “First, I don’t go for Grant Young, nor this Billy Bad Boy. Two, what is it with you and Jake? Are you secretly in love with him or something?”

Loretta flashed a toothy smile, propping a hand onto her hip. “Ask my husband, it ain’t no secret,” she drawled. With a flip of her hand, she admitted more seriously, “I just think he’s a sweetheart, is all. He hasn’t had a girlfriend since he came back here to run the hotel. I worry about him being lonesome.”

“I can assure you, if Jake Cody is lonesome, it’s of his own choosing.”

Loretta grinned even wider. “You like him, don’t cha?”

Gera gave her an evil eye. “What, are we in junior high?”

The waitress completely ignored her and launched into a round of advice. “If you want to have a chance with Jake, don’t let him see you getting friendly with the banker. Those two don’t exactly get along.”

“I’m not getting friendly with Grant Young,” Gera denied. “I just met the man yesterday.”

“You sure looked cozy to me.”

Hearing the accusation in the waitress’ voice, Gera surmised, “I’m sensing you don’t like the man, either.”

“You could say that.”

“Anything you’d like to share?”

“I went to school with him. You know the type. Super jock, super cool, super rich, super smart. Super jerk.”

“Really? I didn’t get that impression at all.” In fact, I think he’s really nice, she thought to herself. A complete nut, but nice.

Loretta sniffed. “Maybe having to come home to his old stomping grounds took him down a peg or two. He was a real hotshot, you know, traveling all over the world, making a name for himself in the corporate banking world. Then his father had a stroke, and he had to come back here. To this.” She spread her hands, indicating the tiny little town beyond the plate-glass windows. “You know it had to take some of the piss and vinegar out of the man.”

“That’s commendable though, don’t you think, coming home to take over the family business?”

“Like he had a choice!” she harrumphed. “The way I hear it, that’s one of the conditions of the trust. A Young has to remain on the mountain, no matter what.”

Gera thought of Grant’s tale about the impending slide. Would keeping his family fortune be so important to him that he stayed here, no matter the danger? Somehow, she doubted it. There had to be a legal loophole that accounted for such a thing.

“Anyway,” Loretta continued, “I just don’t like the way he lords over the town, doling out money at his discretion.”

“Well, that’s kind of what bankers do,” Gera reminder her.

“I guess. Me, I avoid the whole lot of them, as much as possible.” She scooped up the bills on the table and counted them out.

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