Skull and Crossbones (Flint & Co Paranormal Investigations Book 3) by Rachel Ford

Author:Rachel Ford [Ford, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-04-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Rats was the term O’Donnell used to describe us too, when the dreaded call finally came through.

“Hamilton tells me you’re scurrying around in the walls, like a bunch of rats,” was how he put it.

Now, I’d been in the room for Hamilton’s call to O’Donnell, and so I knew that either they’d had a second call once we left, or O’Donnell had taken the liberty of some very heavy paraphrasing.

But as I had scraped slime off myself and applied antiseptic cream to the worst of my injuries, I’d had an opportunity to think. We wanted out of the house. Hamilton wanted us out of his hair.

I’d make the most of that.

So I listened patiently to the lecture. None of it broke new ground: We should have told Hamilton immediately about both the secret room and the secret passage. We should not have put ourselves in potential danger or interfered with what might have been a crime by exploring. And so on.

After he’d droned on for a long several minutes, I said, “All we’re trying to do is help.”

It was a remark calculated to infuriate, in part because it disregarded everything he’d just said, and in part because it drew on my and O’Donnell’s peculiar history of working both together and at odds.

A history which warned him that I would continue to be a major pain in his ass until I got what I wanted.

Not a flattering observation to make about myself, but I was a realist, and self-aware to admit my own limitations. Dogged relentlessness could be a virtue in the right circumstances, but only when paired with the ability to let go.

An ability I was convinced I didn’t have.

O’Donnell started to swear on the other end of the line. I smiled to myself and interrupted.

“Look, Sean, give us something to do. Let us work on the lights case, or something. That’s all we’re asking. We’re going stir crazy here.”

I let him go into an absolutely not rant for about thirty seconds, when again, I interrupted. “For God’s sake, at least let us go get some food.”

He paused at that. “The house should be stocked.”

I snorted. “Yeah, it was. Until Janet decided everything you guys had picked up was cancer in a carton, and threw it all away. We did pick up groceries afterwards. But that’s not what I mean.

“I don’t want to cook and listen to a lecture about how I’m killing myself. Let us go into town and get a meal.”

He let in with another, “Absolutely not.”

But I cut him off right out of the gate this time. “Why not? We’ll be going together, staying in a public place or in the vehicle. There’s no way Boar could come after us.”

He hesitated.

“Come on, Sean. Hamilton’s rules are driving us nuts, and I know we’re driving him nuts. Let us get out of his hair, and get a break from him.”

He sighed, a long, aggravated sigh. “I’ll talk it over with him. If he agrees – and he’s

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