What a Ghoul Wants by Victoria Laurie

Author:Victoria Laurie [Laurie, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fantasy, Mystery, C429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9780451238979
Publisher: Signet
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

We spent a long time at that table working to come up with a plan, so long that Gopher returned and took up a seat to join in the discussion. The problem was that several of us were working at cross-purposes, which made it difficult for all of us to agree on how to proceed. I just wanted to find some way to help Merrick and the other prisoners of the Widow, but Gopher just wanted footage, footage, footage.

Gil and Heath just wanted to stay alive, alive, alive, and Meg, Kim, and John pretty much just wanted to get paid, paid, paid. Only Michel stayed out of the argument, but I had a feeling he was on my side, because every time I brought the discussion back to helping the imprisoned ghosts, he would nod as if he agreed wholeheartedly.

I kept pushing for time to do our homework, but Gopher now had the fear of Chris in him, and he wanted us to get some footage of anything spooky within the next twenty-four hours and he wasn’t backing down. Finally I had an idea and offered the following suggestion: “Last night I think I saw the Desperate Duke.”

“Yeah!” Gil said, pointing to me. “That ghost out on the moors that just disappeared when you aimed the camera through the window.”

I started to nod, but then shook my head. “Maybe,” I said.

“I’m confused,” Gil said.

“What I mean is that the ghost out on the moors that you guys saw through the camera may have been the same guy I saw up close, but I’m not sure.”

“You saw the duke up close?” Heath asked, concern evident in his eyes.

“Yep. It was after I jumped out of the door to get away from the Widow. He was standing about ten or fifteen feet away from me, and if not for him, I think the Widow would have come out that door after me. She took one look at him, though, and slammed the door. Then he disappeared. It was all pretty weird.”

Gilley’s hand was covering his mouth in shock. “M. J.,” he said in a breathy whisper, “before you came down, we were talking about the local legend that says that seeing the duke up close means you’re going to die!”

I rolled my eyes and forced myself to laugh. “A bit dramatic, don’t you think?” When no one laughed with me, I added, “Oh, come on, guys! I’m still alive, and the duke certainly didn’t attack me. If anything, he protected me last night, although why he’d do that I can’t really figure out.”

“It might be that those people who get close enough to see the duke in person end up at the south end of the castle, and if you’re on the south end of the castle, then you’re more likely to become a victim of the Widow,” Heath said wisely.

I gestured to him. “Exactly!” But I couldn’t help taking note of the doubtful expressions of my crew around the table.

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