A Ghost and a Hard Place (A Reaper Witch Mystery Book 3) by Elle Adams

Author:Elle Adams [Adams, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-11T16:00:00+00:00

9

I wasn’t inclined to take the Reaper’s word for it that he wasn’t up to anything nefarious, but there was no point in sticking around the old house with nothing else to be found.

Instead, I returned to the inn, using the shadows as a shortcut with my Reaper skills. This time, I misjudged a little and landed outside the inn instead of in my room. I realised my mistake the instant Carey jumped a foot in the air and dropped her schoolbag. “Where in the world did you come from?”

“Reaper trick,” I said. “I can hop through the shadows from one place to another. Sorry I startled you.”

“Where’d you go, then?” she asked.

I hesitated for a second before deciding I might as well tell her. I had to face the fact that I was lost, and I could use a bit of perspective from someone who wasn’t as biased against Shelton as I was. “I may have followed the new Reaper to see where he was hiding out.”

Her brow wrinkled. “Where was he?”

“Turns out he was skulking around an old house.” I walked with her into the restaurant. “He wasn’t best pleased with me for ambushing him, but it’s his own fault for being so elusive.”

“Who’s being elusive?” Allie called from behind the bar. “Maura, I didn’t see you go out.”

Carey and I walked to her usual table, where she put down her schoolbag. Casper bounded onto a chair, purring.

“The Reaper,” I answered, resigned to telling Allie as well. It wouldn’t do any harm at this stage.

I gave them both a rundown of my confrontation with the Reaper. While I tried to downplay how close we’d come to swinging scythes at one another, neither of them appeared to be fooled. Allie had to go off to serve a customer as I was finishing my story, but Carey’s mouth was open by the end of it.

“Wow,” Carey said in a hushed voice. “What was he doing in that house if not banishing a ghost?”

“I have no idea,” I said. “As he rightly pointed out, he wouldn’t need to use a complicated spell to conjure up a ghost. Or to banish one, come to that. He wouldn’t carry a scythe otherwise.”

“I guess not,” she said. “Weird. You were so sure he was the one who got rid of the ghost…”

“Two of them have vanished now,” I said. “Turns out the guy who asked me to find the missing ghost is now missing himself.”

“No way,” she said. “You mean the second guy who used to be at the academy?”

“Yeah, him,” I said. “It’s bizarre. On top of that, the Reaper is weirding me out. I can’t think what else he might have been doing in that abandoned house if he wasn’t after a ghost, but he refused to tell me a thing, including whether he was working for the Reaper Council.”

She blinked. “Does it make a difference if he is?”

“Yeah,” I said. “The Reaper Council… let’s just say they wouldn’t be pleased at the situation in Hawkwood Hollow.

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