Mack's Perfectly Ghastly Homecoming by A. J. Sherwood

Author:A. J. Sherwood [Sherwood, A. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Mystery
Goodreads: 51847161
Published: 2020-02-26T00:00:00+00:00

12

Clearing the building took almost three hours, enough time for Connie to pull some of the students together for a quick interview. Falisa and Ken wanted to keep hunting for talismans, so we left them to it with Delaney. Mack and I headed for the quad, hopefully to meet with the students and get some answers.

Connie sat at the outdoor tables along with four other students, all of them eating a spread of hot dogs, hamburgers, and two baskets of fries. Connie, it seemed, was not above bribes to get things rolling. It was a shaded bench, pretty and picturesque and didn’t match the strained atmosphere of the group sitting around the table.

I flashed her a thankful smile and slowed my approach at the table. For this crowd, I felt like it was a good idea, so I pulled my badge and flashed it. “Special Agent Brandon Havili, Paranormal Activity Division. This is my partner, Special Agent Mackenzie Lafayette. Hiya, folks.”

Connie left her seat and bustled around it to stand near me. “I told them y’all were coming, Brandon, Mack. Here, sit, they’re ready to tell you the story. This is Tommy—”

A disheveled blond wearing a worn-in sweater and shorts gave me a nod hello, looking shy and overwhelmed.

“—Jill,” Connie indicated a young woman with tightly braided black hair and a heart-shaped face, “Damica, she’s the RA of the building.”

Damica gave a friendly hello and a wave. She looked a little older than college age, cute with her upturned nose and freckles, but her expression was serious as she met my eyes.

“And this is Kit, her twin.”

Kit did indeed look it, sharing the freckles, oval-shaped face and dark hair. He was hunched in on himself and obviously uneasy with meeting two Federal agents. I couldn’t say I blamed him.

“Nice to meet all of you,” I said with my best smile. “I can promise you we’ll sort out this problem soon. If I could get just a little more information from you, that’ll help.”

“Can you really get rid of whatever it is that’s hurting us?” Damica asked uncertainly.

I put a hand on Mack’s shoulder. “He can. He’s a medium.”

“I’ve got another team in with me, other mediums,” Mack added, turning a particularly charming smile on her. I could practically see Damica melt a little under it. “So in fact you’ve three mediums on this case. We’re not going to quit until we’ve made this safe again, I promise you. Can we ask a few questions?”

Jill’s sweet featured hardened. “If you can get that thing out, I’ll tell you anything I can. What do you need to know?”

I took the last open bench and sat, Mack settling in next to me. “First, tell me what you know about the friendly ghost. The one that was here before this shit storm hit.”

“Oh, her?” All of them exchanged uncertain looks but it was Jill that answered. “We really don’t know much. She’s been here for decades, like maybe the ’70s. No one knows her name or anything.

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