Cold Shadows (Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper Book 2) by JL Bryan

Author:JL Bryan
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: urban fantasy, mystery, occult, paranormal, savannah, detective, ghost, haunted, ghost hunter, ghostbuster

Chapter Twelve

I set up my air mattress at the intersection of the two upstairs halls. This gave me a view of the doors to the kids’ rooms, plus the attic and master bedroom doors. Most importantly, it afforded a straight-on view of the door to the crafts room. My top priority was to keep the family safe from Isaiah if he emerged again.

As usual, I positioned the thermal and night cameras so I could see their display screens at a glance from where I sat. I added a motion detector in front of the door, too, with lights that would flicker if anything moved. I wanted to monitor that door as closely and in as many dimensions as possible.

Even closed, the door was a bluer hue on thermal than all the other doors in the hall, as if a deep freezer lay on the other side.

Stacey and I strapped on our microphone headsets so we could stay in touch, and we gave them a quick test. Juniper hung around, watching us.

“Good luck,” Stacey said.

“Good luck seeing the ghost, or good luck not getting attacked again?” I asked.

“Both of those. You sure you don’t want me to stay here with you?” Stacey asked.

“I’m sure I want you in the van watching the whole house.”

“If you see him again, just scream.”

“If you see him anywhere in the house, you’d better scream at me,” I said.

“Done.” Stacey smiled at Juniper. “Are you okay?”

“Yeah. A little freaked out.” She glanced at the door to the attic, now tightly closed.

“You’ll be fine. We’re watching out for you.” Stacey winked at her before leaving.

Juniper still didn’t seem eager to go to bed—not surprising. It was a little past midnight, the rain was pounding outside, and she had just seen a ghost attack me in a potentially lethal way. Oh, and that small matter of a poltergeist tossing things around her room at night. The poor kid.

“Want to hang out?” I asked, since it was obvious she did. I sat down on my mattress, and she sat cross-legged on the hallway floor in front of me.

“Okay. So what do we do now?” she asked.

“We call this the observation period,” I said. “We just soak up information about what’s happening in the house. Tonight, it’s kind of guard duty, too. We don’t want Isaiah sneaking around causing trouble.”

“How do we stop him if he comes back out?” Juniper glanced at the crafts room door, chewing her lip, then quickly looked away again, as if afraid staring at the door too long might cause it to open.

“Light is your first defense against ghosts.” I gestured to the pair of tactical flashlights laid out in front of me, already pointing toward the crafts room door. “Ghosts don’t like light. It doesn’t hurt them, but it scrambles them and slows them down. Usually that’s enough to send a ghost into hiding, unless it’s really focused on doing something.”

“Like trying to hurt you,” Juniper said.

“Or some little task of their own. Ghosts

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