Wild Wild Ghost by Margo Bond Collins

Author:Margo Bond Collins [Collins, Margo Bond]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bathory Gate Press
Published: 2016-10-07T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Ruby clearly wanted Trip to condemn her for her actions, confirm the guilt she felt. He refused. He’d been a ghost hunter for the Tremayne Agency for a couple of years now, and he had never run across anything as terrifying as the scene she described.

Honestly, the presence thumping outside the door against his back right now was the most frightening one he had come across. Usually, he helped those dealing with a haunting determine what the spirit wanted—almost always some kind of understanding about how the specter had died—and urged the ghost to move on. If that didn’t work, if the ghost was more determined, or more evil, than your average soul, he read a standard exorcism prayer and banished the shade from that place.

Until now, that had always been good enough. Oh, the Agency wanted him to do some kind of complicated hoopla, rituals and spells and such, but he had figured out pretty quick that it was mostly unnecessary, at least for your standard ghost-hunter without any special magical talent.

Someone like Ruby, on the other hand—that was a different story. He suspected she could take those Agency spells and twist them around into something downright powerful.

If it took anything more powerful than an exorcism, some salt, or a silver bullet, Trip wasn’t your man.

Never before had he run into the kind of trouble he was beginning to suspect had followed—or possibly led—Ruby Silver, aka Rowan Argent, to this small town. He didn’t know if he would be able to help her find her way out of that trouble, but he sure as the dickens—as sure as the very devil outside his door right now—was going to try.

And he wasn’t about to let her die in the process, either.

Part of him wanted to tell her that, to meet her intensity with his own, but he wasn’t a hero, and this wasn’t some Beadle’s Dime Novel, either. What was happening in this town was real, and it was deadly. There was no way to guarantee that either of them would survive the night.

For that matter, he had only known her one day. No matter how drawn he was to her, or how much he wanted to clear away the desolation in her eyes, he didn’t have any evidence that he would be able to do that for her. Or that anyone would.

Instead of matching her penetrating stare, he stared at the floor for a moment, settled his hat back on his head, and said, in his best, drawn-out Texas drawl, “Well. If you’re so almighty determined to see it to the end, I reckon I’ll just have to join you.”

Trip didn’t look up, but her surprise reverberated through the tiny space.

“Are you sure about that?" she asked. "There’s nothing holding you here.”

“I took the job. I might not have known exactly what I was signing up for, but this isn’t the first haunting I’ve investigated. I’m not some greenhorn. In fact, technically, I’m the senior agent, you’re the junior agent.

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