Eyes to the Soul by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Suspense
ISBN: 9781928122418
Publisher: Valley Publishing
Published: 2015-01-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

A weariness Celina hadn’t felt in a long time swept over her system. She knew Stefan’s sharp eyes would notice. Fine. She was too tired to care.

“Why don’t you lie down?” he suggested.

She smiled. “I plan on it after you leave.”

A slight whoosh of air drifted toward her as he said, “Except I’m not leaving.”

She froze. Damn that smooth voice of his that made everything seem so reasonable. So easy. But not this. And not this easy. Keeping her voice light she said, “Why?”

“Because I can see energy, and I want to see what goes on here while you’re asleep. You have several ghosts in here now but they are distant. Wanting to communicate but not able to.”

Ouch. She wasn’t sure she liked him being able to pick up so much.

“Tell me why they are there in that state.” His voice, so soft, was controlled and determined.

She shrugged. Well, it wasn’t a big deal. “I was overwhelmed. Somehow with the accident it seemed like any and every ghost could call on me at will and I couldn’t handle it. I closed a door and let only a few in. And no, don’t ask me how I closed it. I just did.” She gave a small shrug. “As it was, several still managed to get in.”

“Were they persistent?”

“No, I just think they were more capable.” She turned to look around her room, knowing where everything was and where her ghostly visitors usually were. “It’s an odd thing to consider that some ghosts are more conscious, more adept than others. But it’s the same with people. I just hadn’t considered that the same traits would show up between ghosts.” She stood up. “This conversation would have normal people running for the hills.”

“I’m not normal people.” There was a hesitation in his voice.

Celina stopped and waited for him. When he didn’t speak again she said, “What?”

“Nothing. It’s stupid.”

“What’s stupid?” she said, frowning.

“I was going to ask if you need any help, but you are obviously very competent and don’t need it.”

She paused, hearing a note in his voice that said he’d like to help regardless. As in he wanted more from her than she was giving at this point. She had to think about that. Her life was a mess. She really didn’t need anyone else adding complications. She opened her mouth to make that clear.

She sensed his indrawn breath, as if waiting for her to say something he wasn’t going to like but damn it, the words wouldn’t come out. Because in spite of all the problems, in spite all of the people in her life, real and ghostly, she didn’t want to go it alone. Didn’t know if she could. But she knew this man would never want to be anyone’s crutch. He’d want a partner. In every sense of the word.

Could she be that for him? That was the dream she’d had with her fiancé. And that had gone up in a puff of smoke.

She couldn’t sense any eagerness or pushiness in his voice or actions.

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