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Maybe I should have brought Adrian. His hearing is better, and he would stop me from doing anything I might regret later.
“He isn’t home,” a voice to my right calls out.
I look over, expecting to see a nosy neighbor hanging over the fence between yards. I sigh when I catch sight of a spirit instead. The old woman gives me a friendly smile.
“He left two days ago, and he hasn’t been back.”
Really should have worn my charm. Really shouldn’t invite a conversation.
“Wouldn’t know where he went, would you?” I ask.
“Well … I heard him take a phone call. I think he wrote down the address before he left.”
“You saw where he wrote it down?”
She nods. “I can check the notepad and tell you the address.”
She wants something in exchange. I stifle the urge to groan.
It can’t be that bad. Just ask.
“What do you want in return?”
She smiles. “Fresh roses.”
“Fresh roses?”
“For my grave. I always liked roses. Pink ones.”
Okay, that’s about the easiest task I’ve ever been given.
I doubt it’s going to make her move on, but something tells me she’s hanging around here at a necromancer’s house because she’d rather not move on.
“Deal,” I tell her. “It might take a couple of days, but I’ll get them.”
“Good boy. Now, let me check that notepad. I’ll be straight back.”
I step back as she moves through the door.
She comes back out a few minutes later, and I grab my phone to take down the address.
“Midnight Valley?” I ask, only knowing it because it’s where Rachel came from.
“Midnight Valley.”
“Did he write down anything else?”
“No, but it was a job,” she says. “He was called to investigate a haunting and convince the spirits there to cross over so the house could be sold.”
“How do you know so much?”
She smiles. “I used to take his calls. I still rush to the phone when it rings.”
A live-in receptionist? Or a ghost whose job was her life.
Either way, she’s been helpful.
“Your grave …” I start.
