The Queen and I by Russell Andresen

Author:Russell Andresen [Andresen, Russell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Agency
Published: 2015-09-22T07:00:00+00:00

Abby Tisch sat watching as Sean Wagner approached her bookstore. She had never liked Sean’s stepfather, Sheriff Pitts, but there was something about Sean that she always found appealing. Maybe it was the simplicity of the man.

He was not exactly what you would call complicated. There was no pretense with Sean, no deception, and no bullshit; he was who he let you believe he was when you first spoke to him, and you either took it or left it.

Abby was inclined to the former. She enjoyed being around people who left very little to the imagination. Even though she was a person who enjoyed playing mind games with others, she despised it when it was done to her. That was one of the things she had hated most about her encounter with Jeffrey David Rothstein a couple of weeks ago; the man was obviously hiding something from her, and she didn’t appreciate it.

With Sean, she knew what she was dealing with and knew that he could easily be manipulated to do things that she wanted, whether it was her carnal desires that he happily filled for her, or those jobs she sometimes needed done without the authorities being made aware of them.

One of the interesting jobs he had been doing lately had come to her when she realized there was a ghost living at the old cabin where that Richard Kearney fellow had lived. The brainstorm hit her that she could possibly bring the town to its knees by making everyone frightened of the prospect of a phantasm watching every move, and making them certain that it had brought friends. That was when she had conceived the notion of starting her own ghost hunter service, and Sean was the one to facilitate the need for business.

She would have him go around to some of the more out-of-the-way homes in the Zion area and give the homeowners the distinct impression that their homes were haunted. Thus, the needs for her services would grow exponentially.

The only problem was that nobody was calling on her, because Sean was not very good at what she had hired him to do, and the town was in such a state of excitement at having this pseudo-celebrity living among them that they refused to acknowledge anything was wrong.

The way most of the town’s residents saw it, it was better to live in a town with ghosts and have a celebrity in their midst than to expel these supernatural visitors and dwell in mediocrity.

Sean entered the store, and she could smell the stench of cheap whiskey on him almost immediately. Most people found this to be repulsive, but to her there was a certain masculinity that it evoked, making her want him all the more. The man excited her, and she was a slave to those urges and desires.

She lit a cigarette and watched as he looked at a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird. She could actually see his lips moving as he tried to sound out the last word, and that made her want him that much more.

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