Ghost Town by Jason Hawes

Author:Jason Hawes
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

Drew noted how Amber kept glancing around as they walked.

“Keeping an eye out for Mitch?” he asked.

She looked at him and smiled. “Like you aren’t? On the surface, you may be an educated, rational, modern man, but underneath, you’re still a caveman protecting his mate.”

Drew grinned. “Ugh. Me no comment.”

They were in Tri-County Community College’s library. The building had two stories, with an open-air atrium that rose all the way to a skylight in the ceiling. Erin’s crew was setting up near the circulation desk on the first floor, where the library’s director stood chatting with Connie while waiting to be interviewed. Not far away, Trevor was taking readings with the EMF detector, while Carrington tried to capture EVP with the digital audio recorder. Erin stood equidistant between them, filming first one, then the other, with her handheld camera, as if she couldn’t decide which man was more important to focus on.

Drew and Amber had decided to take a walk through the library to see what, if anything, she might be able to sense about the place. Currently, they stood next to the second-floor railing, gazing down at the scene below. In the middle of the atrium was a landscaped area filled with flowers and green plants of various kinds, and next to it was a small lounge area where students could buy coffee and pastries, sit at a table, and chat or watch whatever was playing on the flat-screen TV. Rows of computer stations took up the rest of the main floor, and Drew wondered if the library had any physical books at all and, if so, where they were kept.

“Looks more like a student center than a library,” Amber said, echoing his thoughts.

“I guess if you want students to register for classes these days, you have to up the fun factor,” he said.

“Well, it certainly looks like they take their fun seriously here.”

The library had been transformed for Dead Days. The staff members were dressed in old-fashioned black suits or dresses, making them resemble Victorian-era undertakers. Most of the students wore costumes, and while a few of their outfits were whimsical—one couple was dressed as a plug and a socket—most were ghoulish in theme: monsters, ghosts, zombies, masked slashers, and the like. The Rocky Horror Picture Show was playing on the flat-screen, and the students in the lounge area were laughing and singing along with the lyrics. Erin had told them that there was a maze of some kind there, but so far, Drew hadn’t seen it. Maybe it was farther back on the first floor, where it couldn’t be seen from above.

“I wish Erin hadn’t insisted on coming here,” Amber said.

“Do you sense something?” Only a couple of months ago, Drew would have dismissed the notion of paranormal abilities as nonsense. Now here he was, asking his lover if she was picking up anything on her psychic radar, as if it were the most normal thing in the world. Life could be pretty damned strange sometimes.

“You know

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