Whispering Hearts by Chandler Cassandra

Author:Chandler, Cassandra [Chandler, Cassandra]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Possession, Runes, Clairvoyance, Storms, Clairaudience, Clairsentience, Friends-to-lovers, Ghosts, Psychics, Alligators
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2016-01-05T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Too many nights of not enough rest were taking their toll on Garrett. He woke up to the groggy state of half-sleep, disoriented and stiff. His left arm was numb from being pinned under his torso and he had drooled on his couch.

Light was filtering into the room from the blinds that covered the sliding glass door. They had shifted a bit, enough to let the morning sun stretch across the bamboo floor.

Something was wrong. Why were the blinds open at all?

He jumped up, nearly cracking his shins on his coffee table, then ran to the door. Rachel was sitting on one of the chairs outside. She was still wearing his T-shirt. She hugged her knees to her chest and had her feet resting on the chair. And she was laughing.

Garrett paused, trying to triage the situation. She looked relaxed. Comfortable. She wasn’t scared. But she was talking to someone. Her voice was too low for him to make out what she was saying through the glass.

Had she already made contact with one of the ghosts they had talked about helping? It seemed quick work to win them over so fast, even for someone as charming as Rachel. If anyone could do it though, she could.

The thought of her outside alone with a ghost was unsettling. Especially now that he knew there was more danger involved than she had let on.

He opened the door, the heat from the stone of his patio blasting him. Rachel turned at the sound, her smile stopping him in his tracks.

How long had it been since he had seen that smile? He felt an odd sense of loss that someone else had brought it out of her. He had been trying so hard to be supportive. Whatever ghost she was talking to had done a better job lifting the weights from her spirit.

“Hi Garrett. I was just talking to Misha.”

“Misha? Who’s that?”

“He was a friend of Hiram’s. It turns out he’s been hanging around me for a long time.” She paused as if listening to something, then laughed again.

Garrett bristled. He wasn’t sure why.

Whoever this Misha was, he was helping Rachel feel better. Shouldn’t that make Garrett happy too? Instead, his stomach coiled up like a rattler. He wanted to get her back inside the house, safe behind the wards.

“Have you had breakfast yet?”

“No, I was waiting for you to wake up. Do you think I should take down some wards so he can join us?”

Chh-chh-chh-chh. The hair on his arms stood on end. Who the hell was this guy that Rachel was talking about letting her guard down? Letting him into Garrett’s house?

“I don’t think that’s a good idea. Misha isn’t the only one hanging around.”

“Right.” She shook her head. “Sorry, I guess I wasn’t thinking. Misha, I hope you don’t mind. Would you excuse me?”

She was quiet again, her head cocked to the side, then she laughed. She stretched out her legs and put her feet on the ground, then yelped and pulled them right back up.

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