The Ghost is Clear: A Reaper Witch Mystery by Adams Elle

Author:Adams, Elle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

9

As much as I wanted to hunt down the ghouls right away, until we figured out where their lair might be hidden, we would only end up going in circles.

“I’ll call you in the morning,” Drew told me as I left the morgue along with the Wardens. “In the meantime, I can have another look into the details of the other disappearances to see where this might have started. Is it likely that the first ghoul came from outside Hawkwood Hollow?”

“I think so, but don’t take my word for it on that.” There were other possibilities, but I didn’t have the focus to ponder them while I was drenched, covered in mud, and thoroughly exhausted.

With a mixture of relief and resignation, I joined the Wardens in heading back to the inn. The silence that pursued us down the dark street gave me a chance to consider the many questions the ghoul’s attack had stirred up in my mind.

“If ghouls feed on dead bodies, where have they been getting them from?” Perry voiced one of my queries. “I mean, wouldn’t that Reaper of yours have noticed them skulking around the cemetery before tonight?”

“Yes… he would have.” It had only been a few days, but the ghouls must have found a feeding spot somewhere that wasn’t in the local cemetery. Elaine, I was sure, had only been there because the police had found her body and taken it to the morgue, so the graveyard had been her nearest source of sustenance. Ew. “It’s possible some of the missing persons were killed without being turned into ghouls… or they picked the lair of a serial killer as their hideout or something.”

Perry pulled a face. “Delightful.”

Farley made a noise of disgust. “Are serial killers common here?”

“No more than anywhere else.” I decided against mentioning that the common factor in most criminal activity recently had been me. “You were out walking for hours. You really didn’t see any places that might be hideouts for ghouls out in the countryside?”

“No, and I didn’t pick up their stench, either.” Callum wrinkled his nose. “That would have been hard to miss. I don’t know, then.”

“Don’t forget that werewolf who chased you off,” Perry reminded him. “We didn’t search that field.”

“Wait, you mean Tessa?” The estranged daughter of the pack chief preferred to live outside the town’s boundaries, and she didn’t take kindly to people trespassing near her house. “If I’d known you were going there, I’d have warned you she doesn’t like visitors.”

“Or clothes, either,” Farley said wryly.

“That too,” I added. “How close did you get to her house?”

“Close enough that she and Maurice almost got into a fight,” Perry told me.

I raised a brow. “Who won?”

“Tam talked Maurice into stepping aside, so nobody did,” Callum answered. “Ah—I assume she’d have reported anything suspicious to the police?”

“Yes, she would have.” I glanced in the vampire’s direction, only to find that he’d disappeared again. Either he’d decided to return to the inn by another route or he’d wandered off, but as it was typical for vampires to stay out all night and only return at dawn, I let it slide.

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