Seeing Darkness by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MIRA Books
Published: 2020-04-02T15:26:07+00:00

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Jon lay awake, staring at the ceiling. He was growing more and more worried about Marla Martinelli. With every cop in the state looking for her, how had she managed to elude them all? At least, her car should have been found.

He heard someone come into the parlor; he eased up on the couch, frowning, wondering if something had happened.

He didn’t at all expect to see Kylie standing above him. She looked ridiculously dignified, even wearing only a long sleep T-shirt. Her arms were crossed over her chest, and she seemed to look down at him with incredible scorn.

“You bastard,” she said quietly. “You...absolute bastard. I’m thinking I’m the most demented person in the world, seeing someone else as they’re being murdered, wondering just how far my grip on reality has slipped. And all the while, you’re the...weird one! Seeing ghosts, talking to them, getting your mysterious help from the dead! You said not one word about your ‘special skill.’ You practically accused me of horrible things the night we met, when all the while, you... You could have said something!”

He was so startled, he didn’t answer for a moment.

That was long enough for her to grab the pillow he’d been using and slam it down over his head.

“Hey!” He jerked up, grabbing the pillow and then catching her arm when she would have stormed away. He didn’t use force, but the way she had been turning sent her spinning back around so she landed on the couch next to him. They both looked at each other with surprise.

Flashes of heat seemed to arise—attraction. Anger.

Neither of them moved for a minute; they stared at each other.

She started to rise. He caught her arm again, but gently. Her skin was soft and slightly cool in the night air.

“Please,” he said.

She looked at him but didn’t relax her posture.

“It’s not something you bring up in casual conversation when you just meet someone,” he began.

“We didn’t meet casually!”

“No, you were passing out. And talking about a murderer.”

“That was...that was just at first. You dragged us all down to your office and put us through an interrogation. I felt like a victim, and a criminal...and an idiot! And all the while—”

He sighed when she broke off, looking out into the room, so aware of her warmth, her eyes, the feel of her by him.

“I’m sorry,” he said softly. “I needed your help. I still need your help. I just didn’t find the time in there with everything else to mention that... I have dead friends. Who still talk to me.”

She stared a moment longer and he realized she was trembling. She lowered her head. “Dead people,” she said. She shook her head. “Even then, it doesn’t explain what happened to me during that hypnotism. Jon, I know you believe you saw Matt about to stab me, but he’s not the one who killed Annie Hampton.”

“I know. I believe you.”

She looked up. “How can any of this be? I mean, I saw that ghost today—”

“Obadiah Jones.

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