Their Burning Graves: A totally heart-stopping and addictive crime thriller (Detective Morgan Brookes Book 8) by Helen Phifer

Author:Helen Phifer [Phifer, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781803147284
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2022-12-18T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-SIX

Natalie White walked into the café and sat at her usual seat, brushing past Annie who felt a cold shiver run down the entire left side of her body where they had touched. Instantly, Annie knew something was wrong, she hadn’t had a reaction to someone like that in ages. She found herself staring at Natalie. She was one of her best customers and came here without fail every weekday unless she was on holiday. Something was wrong though, and she turned away, not wanting Natalie to catch her staring, but Annie knew she had to do something. She went to the little storeroom in the back and perched on a large cardboard box. Ever since Sally died she had been sensing things a lot more than she had for quite some time, though she wasn’t sure if it was her gift kicking in or whether she was being more open to reading people because she’d let her guard down and now Sally and her whole family were dead. She hadn’t been able to sleep properly the last few nights, worrying whether she could have done something to prevent what had happened. Will had sensed something was wrong and had sat her down at breakfast this morning to ask if she was okay. She felt terrible that she had done something she hadn’t had to do since she’d left her job as a police officer: she’d lied to him and told him she was fine, a little bit stressed with work but nothing she couldn’t handle. She hated not telling him the truth, but he’d nodded and kissed her before she’d left for work. It was his day off, so he was dropping Alfie at school and picking him up.

Magda came into the room, took one look at Annie and tilted her head.

‘What’s wrong? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.’

Annie held up her hand to signal to leave her be for a moment. Was that it? Had she seen a ghost? One that was still breathing, but not for much longer. Oh God, Natalie White, was something awful going to happen to her? She stood up, and looking around for her phone she realised she didn’t have Morgan’s phone number.

‘Magda, have you seen my phone?’

‘Not today, did you bring it with you?’

Annie couldn’t remember if she had or not. ‘It doesn’t matter, I’ll use the shop phone.’ She looked at Magda who was normally quite perceptive and whispered, ‘Can you see the woman sitting alone at the table in the window?’

‘Natalie, yes, I can see her. She’s not a ghost, she’s solid flesh and blood.’

‘I didn’t mean that, can you see anything wrong with her?’

‘Like what, she has an extra ear, two heads?’

‘No, like her aura, can you see that?’

Magda shook her head. ‘I can’t see anything today, Annie, I’m hung-over.’

Annie looked at her then smiled. ‘Magda, it’s a good job you’re not doing any readings then.’

Annie needed to speak to Natalie, but how could she do that without appearing weird? She was going to have to just do it.

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