Ghostly Liaisons (Ghosts) by Spear Terry

Author:Spear, Terry [Spear, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Published: 2011-04-01T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Michael’s stomach soured when he envisioned Emily’s Caddy destroyed somewhere in the swamp. He could see the battered vehicle had been beaten without mercy. When the vision faded, he saw Emily’s face had turned as pale as when the spirit had iced her. Tears filled her eyes and her nose reddened, and she was on the brink of crying. Wishing he hadn’t been the bearer of bad tidings, he held her hand tightly. She was ready to bolt from the car, and he couldn’t let her. Not until he was sure she wouldn’t do anything foolish.

If he could, he’d have made everything right for her. Her Caddy would be sitting in the driveway, decrepit thing though it was. But it was her car, just the same. Her property, and no one had the right to mess with it.

He patted her hand, but she seemed a million miles away. He was sure her thoughts bordered on vengeance, and he was certain he knew just whom she would target. Though he didn’t have any doubts Red and his bully friends trashed her car. What made them the monsters they were? It appeared Emily was right. Mediation wouldn’t work with these guys.

What made his spine tingle with fresh worry was the thought they’d go after Emily next. Destroying her car wouldn’t be enough.

“Come on, Emily,” he coaxed, trying to snap her out of it, and to his guarded relief, she let go of the door handle and seemed to be resigned to the fact her car was gone.

But was it just a ploy?

* * *

Emily silently fumed. Red and his thugs had dumped her Caddy in the swamp. She just knew it. “You saw it in a vision?” she asked Michael, who held her hand in a death grip, and she released the door handle with her other.

“Yeah. I don’t know how they did it. They must have gotten it started and drove it in as far as they could. It’s pretty badly beaten up. They sheared off several saplings before they hit an old, well-rooted mango tree.”

She gritted her teeth, trying to stop the tears. The car didn’t run half the time, but it didn’t matter. It was her grandparents’, the only thing she had to remember them by. And now the demon seeds had destroyed it.

“Do you see that they truly totaled it, Michael?” She choked on the words, not wanting to hate anyone as much as she did them, but she couldn’t help it. Most of all, her mind didn’t want to accept that Michael could envision her car wrecked in the swamps, though in her heart she believed him.

He leaned over and kissed her wet cheek. “We’ll report it to the police.”

The police would never catch the devils that did it. She would make them pay.

“Emily?” He wiped away her tears, then pulled her close. “We’ll make them see justice.”

Behind bars, that’s where they belonged. All three of them, and the driver of the flaming car, too, if he had anything to do with destroying her grandparents’ car.

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