Dead Fun (Cold Case Psychic Book 27) by Pandora Pine

Author:Pandora Pine [Pine, Pandora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-06-25T00:00:00+00:00

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Tennyson

When everyone got home from Happy Hooters, the kids wanted to hang out in the pool at Fitzgibbon’s house, and Ten had no problem with that whatsoever. Exhausted from wrangling the kids and hungry baby animals, all he wanted to do was take a load off and relax.

He slathered the kids in sunblock while Ronan put on their floaties, and away the kids went. Fitz and Jace were in the house, working on snacks, while Jude floated in the pool, pretending to sleep but watching the kids. Barb had gone back to Kaye’s to take a nap. River sat to Ten’s right.

“Where are we with the Brighthouse case?” Cope asked when Ronan went to go join the kids in the pool. He made a big splash with his cannonball. The cool water slapped against Ten’s legs.

“There is no case,” Ten said. Brighthouse couldn’t say what he needed help with and why. Baxter had kicked Ten and Ronan out of his office. As far as he was concerned, there was nothing left to be done.

Cope grinned. “Okay, I’ll play along. There’s no case. What happened last night? Were you able to reach out to Kotter’s spirit?”

Ten nodded. “Kotter Brighthouse showed up, but there’s something wrong with him. He might be having memory issues or trouble with dead speak.” Saying it out loud like that made Ten feel sorry for the dead theme park owner.

“What’s dead speak?” River asked.

It had been a long time since Ten had to explain psychic lingo to anyone outside their friend group. He loved that River was interested in his abilities and what he could do with them. “It’s the way spirits communicate with the living. Some of them speak as easily as we are now. Others have a harder time. I worked a case with Ronan and the Boston Police Department about five years ago that involved a young man who could only talk me through the use of images, not words.”

“What causes something like that?” River looked as if he might not want to know the answer to that question.

“The young man had been brutally murdered by a serial killer and left to rot in a marsh.” Ten’s memory flashed back to that moment on Rumney Marsh when he and Ronan were called out to the crime scene.

River gasped. “You’re serious?”

“I am. Those early days working with Ronan were really hard on me. Here I was, this kid from a small rural town in Kansas, going to gruesome crime scenes. It took a while and a lot of therapy to get my head right from the things I saw. I’d never say this to Ronan, but I was so happy when he retired because it meant I wouldn’t have to see horribly wounded bodies anymore.” Ten hated saying that out loud, but the trauma he’d endured was real. Seeing young gay men torn apart by a monster for his own pleasure was something that still shook him. He had nightmares about Justin Wilson’s death scene to this day.

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