A Ghost Hunter P.I. Mystery (The Complete Series: Books 1-5) by Aubrey Harper

Author:Aubrey Harper [Harper, Aubrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-08T23:00:00+00:00

Thirteen

“I’m scared,” Sarah said, holding my hand tighter than was comfortable.

“Me too,” I reassured her. “Don’t worry, the lights will be back on in no time. You’ll see.”

After what seemed like an eternity in the darkness, the lights finally came back on.

But everything had a sinister edge to it. As if it wasn’t bad enough when the sheriff was killed, this felt a lot worse, because we didn’t know if there was another victim waiting for us in the great hall.

We slowly walked, each of us dreading that someone we cared about might be dead.

As soon as we came to the great hall, Jonathan ran to Sarah’s side.

“Thank God you’re all right,” he said. “I knew it was a stupid idea letting you go off like that.” He glared at me, as if I was the one that made the lights go out.

Kane and Troy came to my side.

“Was anyone hurt?” I asked them.

Jonathan and Kane gave each other a look.

“What is it?” I asked. “It better not be Gran.”

“She’s fine,” Troy reassured me. “But Mrs. V wasn’t so lucky.”

“What happened?”

“It looks like a heart attack,” Jonathan was quick to say.

“Actually, it looks more like she was scared to death. You should see her face,” Troy said.

“He’s not lying,” Kane said. “It was kind of horrifying.”

“Take me to her,” I said. “With any luck, her ghost is still hanging around and she can tell us what exactly scared her so much.”

I found Mrs. V standing over her body, covered by a tablecloth, a distraught look on her face. The sheriff, to his credit, was trying to comfort her.

“What happened?” I asked her without even looking at the body. Sometimes, when the death was unusually horrific, it was best that the recently dead didn’t see the bodies they just left behind.

“It was so awful,” Mrs. V said. “The most terrifying faces.”

“You could see them in the darkness?” I asked her, a bit surprised.

“No,” she said, “right after the lights came back on, they were right in front of me. They almost scared me to death.” She looked at her ghostly form. “Actually, it looks like they did scare me to death.”

“Can you describe what they looked like?”

I ignored the weird looks I was getting from officers and civilians alike.

“I don’t know. They looked absolutely deranged is what I’d say.” Then she looked me in the eye. “I’m sorry I was so awful to you.”

“Don’t worry about that, Mrs. V, just try to stay calm.”

“There’s no heaven, is there?” She said, looking more than a little disappointed.

“You can only move on after you’ve worked through your unresolved issues. In this case, I’m guessing it’s your death.”

She nodded in understanding. “Please tell Jonathan I’m sorry for making such a scene. And Sarah, too. It all seems so silly now.”

“Don’t worry, they know,” I reassured her. “But I’ll tell them anyway.”

I relayed the message to Jonathan and Sarah.

Jonathan for once didn’t make a sarcastic remark. I guess with his grandmother, the woman who raised him, dead, he really didn’t have it in him to insult me.

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