A Wild Ghost Chase by Elle Adams

Author:Elle Adams [Adams, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-15T16:00:00+00:00

9

Drew retreated down the hall to speak to the others. I, meanwhile, scanned the kitchen for the source of the scream until I spotted a small figure concealed beneath the table.

“Carey?”

She crawled out from under the table and straightened upright, her eyes wide and frightened. “She’s dead!”

“I know. Let’s get you out of here.” I beckoned to her and she hurried to my side, not looking back at the body in the garden. “Did you see what happened?”

“No, but I heard a crash, and when I looked outside to see what was going on…” She blinked hard. “I thought they’d blame me if they found me beside her body.”

“We don’t, but we’d like to know what happened.” I stepped aside to let Mr Renner, his wife, Drew and the others enter the kitchen, and we all made our way through to the garden.

Outside, Dolores Malone lay sprawled in a pile of fallen roof tiles. Above, the roof was half-bare, as though they’d slid off of their own accord. A chill raced down my back. Did Mrs Renner do that? Had she thought she was getting revenge on her so-called nemesis for her own untimely death?

A head popped up behind the chimney, and the rat shifter stared wide-eyed down at Dolores. “I heard a crash—”

“She’s dead,” said Mr Renner. “What have you done?”

“I didn’t—” He clutched the roof’s edge, looking like he was going to faint. “I didn’t see her. I moved some of the roof tiles around, but I didn’t know there was nothing holding them together.”

Is he telling the truth? I hadn’t even noticed he’d left the rest of the group behind to climb up onto the roof, but I didn’t see why he’d have cause to lie. Yet as long as Mrs Renner remained unaccounted for, I’d have to keep her name on the suspect list. If she had done it, and I hadn’t banished her yet… there was nothing for it. I’d need to get rid of her as soon as possible.

Two of the other construction workers helped levitate Louis down off the roof, since he was shaking too hard to walk in a straight line, let alone climb a ladder. The instant his feet hit the ground, Mr Renner pounced on him and the others, bombarding them with questions.

Drew, meanwhile, was on his phone to someone, probably the police. He hung up a moment later, glancing around at Carey and me. “Can you stay here until the police show up?”

“Sure.” I nodded to Carey, who looked pale and scared. Her ghost goggles lay askew, while she still hadn’t explained when and why she’d decided to skip school after I’d dropped her off. With the police on the way, I didn’t want to add to her worry about having to explain what she’d seen, so I said nothing.

The police showed up within ten minutes. A werewolf officer with blond hair and broad shoulders called a terrified-looking Carey over for questioning, and despite my protests, he wouldn’t let me accompany her.

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