Every Breath You Take by Chris Marie Green

Author:Chris Marie Green
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-02-23T16:00:00+00:00

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Amanda Lee had been right about making me take a break: seeing Suze again had grounded me somewhat, and there’d been another unexpected bonus to my time with her besides, even though I hadn’t known it until after I’d left Suze in her break room with her sandwich.

For the first time in a long time, I felt like I could be somewhere away from my ghost friends and not be attacked by evil forces.

Progress!

When I arrived at Amanda Lee’s at dusk, just to see if anyone was there before I continued on to Elfin Forest, I found her and Marg back by the pool. Peering over the fence were lookiloo ghosts, including a turn-of-the-twentieth-century man in a pale suit and straw hat, plus a missionary Native American who wore a rough white shirt and short pants. Elliot and Angel had helped us catch Marg’s killer a couple months ago, and I’d learned their names and their death stories—about Elliot’s boardwalk stabbing and Angel’s scurvy—after the action had died down.

I hadn’t seen them in a while, but tonight it was like they weren’t just hanging out to spy on Amanda Lee and all the excitement she brought to this corner of Boo World; I got the impression they were also keeping an eye on Marg. Either that or they were merely enthralled with that X on her.

Even from outside the pool area, I could hear the waterfall and the women’s casual laughter. When I peeked above the fence, I saw that the only things missing from this idyllic scene were mai tais and . . . Oh. An actual body for Marg to sunbathe with.

Not that she would’ve gotten many rays with the clouds covering the dusky sky.

I patted my jealousy down as I checked out that X on Marg and told myself to be happy that she hadn’t turned into a disciple of my killer or anything yet.

Before I went to them, I had to quiz Elliot and Angel, just to see if they were dark-spirit fakes, but they passed my test, giving me enough peace of mind to leave them and float over the fence.

“Here she is!” Marg said, looking right at home while lollygagging around in her white mesh bathing suit cover-up.

Amanda Lee gave me a what-kind-of-mood-are-you-in? look. I grinned at her, and she accepted that as a friendly gesture.

“I thought I’d spend some time with Suze,” I said. “So I did.”

“Seems like you had fun,” Amanda Lee said.

I smiled again, then nodded at the wicker loungers they were relaxing on. “I see you’re taking a break, too. I guess we all needed one.”

Marg sat up and swung her once-tanned legs to the side of her recliner. She smiled at Amanda Lee. “You should tell her.”

Amanda Lee wore a canary-eating grin now. Clearly, the effects of her hallucination hadn’t completely worn off.

“What?” I asked.

She gave it up. “Ruben will be stopping by tonight before we go back to Elfin Forest, so we’re waiting for him. He’s found out more about your murder, Jensen.

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