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“Everything is worth investigating.” Harris was already looking for the waitress. “You felt your temperature rise in there. Then you see the shadow and freak out.”
“I didn’t freak out.”
“You were startled.” She caught the gaze of their server and mimed signing the check. The woman flashed them a wide smile and held up a finger before heading back into the kitchen. “You think this is something, too.”
“Will you just sit down?” Cassie leaned forward. “It’s not what you think.”
Harris settled into the chair opposite her with an exasperated huff. When Cassie didn’t speak right away, Harris gestured for Cassie to go on.
Cassie took a deep breath. She didn’t know what to say. Didn’t even know where to start. “Something weird happened in New Orleans.”
“No offense, but you’re usually the something weird.”
Cassie rolled her eyes. “Jason and I met this woman, Sabine Delacroix. She took us to one of the cemeteries.”
“Normal couple outing.”
“We’re not a couple.”
Harris raised an eyebrow but didn’t say anything.
“While we were there, she took us to the center of the cemetery. Then she did, um, something.”
“Did what?”
“Opened the veil?” Cassie couldn’t help that it came out like a question.
“The veil? What does that even mean?”
“To the other side.”
“The other side of wh—” Harris’s eyes grew wide. “You mean, like, heaven?”
Cassie shook her head. “The other side, as in the spirit world. It’s not heaven. More like limbo.”
“Purgatory?”
She shrugged. “Call it whatever you want. For me, it’s always been like a curtain that hangs between our world and theirs.”
“Theirs? You mean ghosts.”
“Yeah. Our worlds exist over the top of each other’s. Restless spirits stick around here until they find what they’re looking for, whether it’s justice or peace or whatever.” Cassie took a sip of her water. Her tongue felt as dry as a desert. “Then they go to the other side. In my experience, they usually stay there.”
“I feel a but coming on,” Harris said.
“In that cemetery, I literally saw the curtain pulled back. That’s never happened before. I’ve never been able to peer through the veil.”
“What did you see?”
Cassie looked down at her phone. “A shadow.”
“That’s it? A shadow?” Harris didn’t bother hiding her disappointment. “Is that important?”
“At the time, I thought the shadow could be David.”
That caught Harris’s attention. “What made you think that?”
“I don’t know. Whoever it was, they either didn’t want me to see their face, or something else was keeping them from reaching out to me.”
