Uncovered Truths : A Midlife Psychic Medium Series Novel by Carolyn Ridder Aspenson

Author:Carolyn Ridder Aspenson [Aspenson, Carolyn Ridder]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Magnum Grace Publishing
Published: 2024-04-23T00:00:00+00:00

12

Roger Reed owned a design firm specializing in new commercial construction. Though the firm was small, it had done well, and with an expansion in Chattanooga on the other side of the state line, Reed Design had made a name for itself.

The receptionist just inside the front entrance, a young woman, greeted me with a smile. “Hi. How can I help you?” she asked me, oblivious to the ghost of a young man close by her.

“We’re—I mean, I’m here to see Roger Reed, please.”

“Let me see if he’s available. May I tell him your name?”

“Angela Panther.”

The young man floating beside her looked at me. “She doesn’t know I’m here, and I don’t want her to,” he said.

I nodded my understanding to him. Plenty of spirits just hung around playing the silent type because they thought their living folks were better off not knowing. Me? If I kicked the bucket before Jake, I planned to haunt him so thoroughly that he would feel me lounging on the sofa even if he couldn’t see me. Just so he would know, clear as day, that I was there, waiting for him to croak, too, and probably amassing a list of complaints about how he wasn’t keeping the house as clean as it should be.

“He’s on the second floor, back office, straight down the hall,” the receptionist said. “Would you like me to take you?”

“I think I can find it,” I said.

Chris floated beside me as I walked up the stairs. “Roger’s kind of a⁠—”

I cut him off. “I’ve noticed. I’m not going to go into the whole seeing-spirits thing, okay?”

“Why not?”

“He’ll find out soon enough,” I said. “If he hasn’t already.”

Roger met me outside his office door. “I was expecting you.” He wasn’t smiling. “Come on in.” He closed the door behind me. “For the record, I was at an out-of-town meeting with an important potential client. I have receipts to prove it.”

I smiled wryly. “I see you’ve talked to Jessica.” I didn’t bother sitting in the chair in front of his desk.

“What makes you say that?”

“Intuition,” I said. “Care to share who you were meeting with?”

“Listen.” Roger planted his hands on his desk and leaned forward as if trying to appear threatening. “I don’t know what makes you think Chris was murdered, and though I can’t say it’s impossible, you’re the only one who seems to think it’s reality.”

“Is that a ‘no’?” I asked.

He squinted at me. “A ‘no’ to what?”

“To telling me who you were meeting with the night of Chris’s murder.”

“I don’t see the point,” Roger said. “And frankly, I don’t see how it’s any of your business, either.”

“I’ve learned innocent people don’t usually have a problem sharing such information.” The statement wasn’t entirely true, but he didn’t need to know that.

“Have you talked to Chris’s sister?”

His refusal to call Carol his wife or even soon-to-be ex-wife wasn’t lost on me. “She feels the same as you.” I didn’t bother telling him she’d spoken to her brother through me.

“If there’s anyone who’d want Chris dead, it’s that woman,” Roger said.

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