The Ghost Who Saved Us by A.D. Ellis

Author:A.D. Ellis [Ellis, A.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: A.D. Ellis Publishing
Published: 2022-09-28T16:00:00+00:00

“You wanna plan a laundry run sometime soon?” I asked Calder as we took a final moment to enjoy our coffee before starting our work for the day.

I’d woken feeling out of sorts, but it hadn’t had anything to do with the man in my bed. The last little jag of sleep I’d gotten had been fitful, and Calder had seemed plagued by the same.

“Calder?” I asked again, turning from my phone to see what was keeping him from answering me.

He was gone.

What the hell?

I stalked to the kitchen sink and looked out the window to the backyard.

That unsettled feeling washed over me again and I rushed from the backdoor and down the rickety old steps.

When I reached Calder, standing under a large oak tree, a dream I hadn’t remembered came rushing back.

“I dreamed about this tree,” Calder mumbled, his hand reaching out to trace the heart carved in the wood.

Images from the dream flashed through my head. The swing, the heart, the initials, and something terrifying clutched at my heart. There was a mixture of emotions swirling through my chest. Happiness and love, but the images kept going dark and dangerous. Fear and pain coursed through me.

“So did I,” I whispered.

“They were in love.” Calder’s fingers caressed the outline of the heart and the letters P and C inside the crudely carved shape. “And very scared.”

I took Calder’s free hand and squeezed.

He broke from whatever trance the images in his head had him in.

Pointing to another carved area of the tree, I spoke softly, unsure of why we’d had the same dream about this tree. “P hearts Ren.”

Calder frowned. “Why P and C in the heart and P hearts Ren over on this side?”

“P fell in love with two people?”

Calder shook his head. “That’s not the feeling I’m getting. The dream—I didn’t even remember it until I glanced out and saw the tree—the dream made it very clear P was head-over-heels in love. Like a once-in-a-lifetime love. I don’t think P carved two different initials.”

“Maybe P isn’t the same person? Maybe we’re seeing two different couples here?”

“I don’t know. I just know that the P in my dream was happily in love and then terrified for his life.” Calder tugged me close, never dropping my hand. “You feel any breeze right now?” he asked quietly.

“Not at all. Still as can be. Why?”

“The swing.”

I glanced toward the old-fashioned swing, the hairs on the back of my neck standing up. It moved as if a person was sitting on it, pumping his legs or being pushed from behind, but there wasn’t a person on the swing.

And there wasn’t a single hint of a breeze.

“You think our ghost is P?” I asked.

“Makes sense. But I don’t feel like we can jump to conclusions.” Calder turned toward me, tipped my chin, and brushed a kiss over my lips. “Maybe he’s stuck here because of whatever was terrifying him? I don’t pretend to understand anything about spirits or whatever, but if he needs us to figure something out, I’ll gladly set aside my fears and help him escape.

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