The Haunting of Millie Nettles: Blue Moon Appalachia Book 1 by Barry Napier & Steve Higgs

Author:Barry Napier & Steve Higgs [Napier, Barry & Higgs, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

An Unexpected Guest. Wednesday, April 06. 1:10 p.m.

I shook his offered hand out of obligation and built-in manners. His grip was firm but not harsh. I felt a strange sort of tension fall across the porch as we shook. I suppose it came from the fact that I had no idea how to respond to this unexpected visitor. I hadn’t invited him, but he was on my porch and making friends with a cat that wasn’t technically mine but that I was growing accustomed to. It wasn’t as if Tempest Michaels had broken into my house and gone through my things, but it felt like it. Or close to it.

“Good to meet you,” Tempest said. But there was a look in his eyes that made me think that he really hadn’t made up his mind yet—that he wasn’t sure if it was good to meet me or not.

“Yeah, same,” I said. We shook for a moment longer, to the point of awkwardness, and then broke it. “But I have to say…I haven’t responded to your email yet on purpose. I wasn’t sure how to respond, or what I wanted to say. So it seems a bit strange that you’re here.”

“I know,” Tempest said. “Please accept my apologies for the intrusion; this was not how I intended for us to meet. However, I was already stateside and had a limited window in which I could hope to make contact. Coming to find you in person seemed to be the most expedient solution.” The man looked genuinely chagrinned at his unannounced arrival. Smiling, he added, “I have to say…living out here, it was very hard to find you.”

“That’s good,” I said, sitting down in the other rocking chair. “That was sort of the point. It’s one of the only advantages of living out here at all.”

Tempest indicated my rocking chair.

“May I?”

With a nod from me, he sat once more, leaving me to stand. I honestly didn’t care. I was still so thrown by his presence that there was no way I could sit still anyway.

“Mr Corey …”

“Edgar.”

Tempest dipped his head in acknowledgement.

“Edgar, since I am here now, may I beg a few moments of your time to discuss a business proposal?”

I wasn’t sure how to answer. I was irritated that the man had just showed up. There were stalker vibes to it, sure, but I couldn’t deny that it also made me feel confident about myself in a very strange way. This man wanted to speak with me so badly that he’d come to America and then managed to navigate the twists and many turns of the Appalachian backroads.

“Might as well,” I said. “You’ve come all this way.”

“I have,” he remarked with a smile.

“You said you had already planned to come to America, though, right? Hopefully you have other things planned outside of Kentucky.”

“I do. When I leave here, I’m headed to Boston to speak with someone else. And I’ve already been out to Sacramento, California to visit an interesting character. Both of these people are in the same line same line of work as you and I.

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