All Hallows Eve Interlude (Telltale Ghosts Book 2) by Mara Townsend

Author:Mara Townsend [Townsend, Mara]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2019-07-26T16:00:00+00:00

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EMERY

The ticking pocket watch mocked Emery Belmont from its spot on the pristine kitchen island. The golden family heirloom was open, the watch face caught in a staring competition with Emery. The watch would win.

Frowning, Emery tapped his slender fingers in a random pattern against the side of his coffee cup, the contents long-cooled. It was after ten in the morning and Emery had sat in his re-renovated kitchen, dressed for the day, nursing coffee since eight, when he usually would have left to catch the commuter line for work. On any normal day, he would be in his downtown office in Boston’s financial district—if Emery hadn’t quit his job two weeks earlier on Halloween.

Emery combed his fingers through his hair, smoothing the loose blond strands back; he hadn’t been using his usual styling paste. The cabinets remained silent, no longer offering input now that his house was ghost-free. Emery had no idea he could miss the opinionated creak-thumping cabinets speaking to him. The corners of his mouth pinched in at the thought. He was not missing his stupid ghost after it had plagued him day and night throughout October.

Giving up on the cold coffee dregs, Emery slid his mug across the sleek white countertop and propped his elbows on the island, folding his fingers beneath his sharp chin.

Tick. If Paxton were around, he would still talk to the cabinets, ghost or not. Tick. Emery was not talking his feelings out with inanimate objects. Tick.

It was the right decision to quit—Emery didn’t regret that.

It had only taken a few hours sitting in his high-rise office with sleek furniture and floor to ceiling windows the first Monday after that whirlwind weekend before his skin itched with displeasure. The office allowed him to transition remotely from home while his accounts transferred to the other financial advisors handling his clients during his personal leave. How was a man meant to return to a lucrative career in corporate financial analysis after facing down a ghost with magic? It was a life he no longer wanted, now that he knew the truth about the supernatural world that existed on the fringes of everyday reality. However, the euphoric rush of the weekend’s events—mischief night, the intimate ritual cleansing that rid him of his pesky ghost problem, Paxton, the Halloween party, Paxton—wore off after a couple of days, anxiety creeping back in with its spindly, cold fingers digging into Emery’s stomach.

It left Emery stuck in a holding pattern of preparing for the day as normal, then stopping midway, remembering that wasn’t his life anymore. He followed this by sitting around his beloved historic house in Charlestown with a half-finished cup of coffee until it went cold, contemplating his next move. The new routine was briefly interrupted by invitations from his mother, which he fended off with excuses of seeing the pretend boyfriend he didn’t have, and texts from Paxton and his friends.

Emery didn’t do impulsive. He thought out his choices and options from every angle with the mind of a strategic chess player.

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