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He sounded like a tour guide. Or maybe a park ranger.
“I didn’t mean—”
“It’s all right. I know ye’ve been lied to again and again, and I’m sorry for it.”
“You aren’t the one—” Or ones. “Who made me so mistrustful.”
Liam ran a hand through his hair, then changed the subject: “Ye’ll meet me tonight, and I’ll prove to ye that I’m no ghost.”
Said out loud, that sounded as foolish as it had in her head.
“I don’t think that,” Kris blurted. “How could I? I’ve exposed several ghosts as fakes.”
“There are ghosts, lass.” His voice had gone soft and a bit sad. “Around here, there are a lot of them.”
“Those you’ve seen?”
“Aye,” he said, gaze gone distant. “That I have.”
“Why?”
He blinked, and his eyes returned to hers. “Why what?”
“Why have you seen ghosts? Have you gone looking for them?”
“No.” He leaned over, placing a quick kiss on her lips before he headed for the door. “The ghosts come looking for me.”
CHAPTER 14
Had Liam been teasing about the ghosts? Kris didn’t think so. His face, his voice, had reflected a sadness she recognized.
He’d lost people, and he felt guilty about it.
Kris’s mother had fought. She’d tried. She just hadn’t been able to win. However, Kris hadn’t been able to forgive her for promising a desperate teenager what she had no right to promise. She should have been honest. She should have prepared Kris and her brother better instead of lying right to the end about her chances of survival.
The de
nials were what Kris had been unable to forgive. Certainly the lies and her reaction to them had fueled her career, but they’d also fueled her guilt. Kris harbored a deep anger at her mother for them still, and that she did kept her up a lot of nights. Kris was surprised she hadn’t started seeing ghosts.
Or at least ghost.
Of course she didn’t believe in visits from the great beyond. But she hadn’t believed in Nessie, either. If she proved to the world that the Loch Ness Monster was real, would she also start seeing the spirit of her mother around every dark corner?
Kris wasn’t sure she was ready for that.
Despite her strange and disturbing thoughts, Kris fell asleep, waking late and stretching luxuriously. The clock read: 11:00 A.M. She couldn’t remember the last time she’d stayed in bed so late. Then again, it wasn’t every night you nearly drowned, had your life saved by a lake monster, followed by mind-blowing sex with a hot Scottish park ranger.
Kris went into the bathroom. One glance in the mirror revealed she was grinning wider than she’d grinned in a long, long time. Probably since the last time she’d had mind-blowing sex.
Whenever that was.
Sure, she’d had sex, but she hadn’t had this. She hadn’t had Liam. She couldn’t wait to have him again.
A trickle of laughter escaped as she picked up her sodden clothes and started the shower. It appeared that she’d at last found something in the world worth giggling about.
But the laughter died as she hung her clothes on the towel rack. Someone had tried to kill her. Again. She was going to have to tell Alan Mac.
“Because he’s been so useful thus far,” Kris muttered as she stepped beneath the stream.
