DS 04 The Ghost of Christmas by Emrick K.J

Author:Emrick, K.J. [Emrick, K.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Cozy Mystery
Published: 2013-12-12T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Darcy was sure she looked as shocked as she felt. Katrina thought that the Santa suit was haunted. Darcy’s first reaction was to say that wasn’t possible. But she lived in a world where specters showed up on her doorstep and children in graveyards followed her every step.

Haunted clothing? It wasn’t the strangest thing she’d ever heard of or seen.

The kettle whistled and Katrina got up to pour water over the bags. “Can you explain that to me?” Darcy asked her.

“I can, but you wouldn’t be the first one to just write me off as insane.” She said it with a smile, but Darcy could hear the hurt behind those words. She herself knew what it was like to have to keep secrets from people because no one would ever believe you, and to be ridiculed even when you knew you were right.

Maybe she and Katrina had more in common than she realized.

Putting the cups of tea down on the table, Katrina looked thoughtfully into the distance. “My dad was very involved with the town. He always helped out with the festivals and pageants. Everyone in town liked him. So you see, no one had a reason to kill him. The night he died was the night after the Christmas pageant. It was the first year that he’d played Santa.” Katrina paused to take a breath. “When I saw him that night in the suit he looked really nervous, almost sick. I had never seen him look that way before. The very next day he was killed.”

Katrina focused back on Darcy and took a sip of her tea. “So you see, I know what killed my dad. That suit is haunted. By what, I don’t know. But whatever it is killed my dad. As sure as you and I are sitting here, that’s what got him killed.”

***

That night Darcy lay awake in bed once again. Her visit with Katrina was running through her mind on a continuous loop. Could the suit be haunted? Could a ghost be responsible for Roger’s death? Why? Why would a spirit do something so drastic? There were documented cases of poltergeists destroying property, even hurting people. As far as she knew, however, there had never been a ghost that actually killed someone.

That didn’t put it beyond the realm of possibility. Especially if the ghost haunting the Santa suit—if there was one—had a grudge against Roger August. There were too many questions and absolutely no answers. She needed to speak to Roger once again.

Communicating with the other side was meant to be done in specific steps. She didn’t like to use them because of the drain on her physical and mental energy, but in situations where she had no other choice, they were her measure of last resort.

Smudge followed her around the house as she got together the thick white candles, sticks of incense in a ceramic holder and the old bed sheet that she used when she performed the ritual here in the house.

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