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“So is mine!” Maggie yelled. “I punched him in the nose and kneed him in the privates.”
Mariah fell silent, stunned.
“You did what?” she asked quietly, her mind beginning to work. How could both their inns be haunted?
“He appeared in front of me from nowhere! I thought someone was playing a trick, so I hit him on the snout. Then he threatened me and told me to get out, so I kneed him and then jabbed him again after stamping on his foot!”
“My God, only you’d punch a ghost!” Mariah replied, laughing.
Relief swept through her that Maggie didn’t doubt her. And Maggie’s rendition was too funny.
“I did not believe in them and reacted. He mentioned something about a great evil at the Jekyll and Hyde,” Maggie recalled.
Mariah perked up, wondering what to disclose about her supposed ghost and haunted inn.
“Mine keeps yelling, but I’ve not seen him. He’s also moved things right before my eyes,” Mariah revealed.
Benedict yesterday had taken to moving her mop and bucket around. It had frightened Mariah to death until Fluffers launched an attack. Benedict had stopped instantly.
“Is he frightening you?” Maggie asked curiously.
“Not really, although he loves making me jump.”
That was not a lie. Benedict would wait until she had her hands full of items and then decide to yell at her. And she’d drop everything while he chuckled darkly.
“Mine dismantled the hoover after I sucked him up, and then he annihilated the parts,” Maggie admitted.
Mariah blinked.
“You what?” Mariah said slowly, doubting what Maggie had just told her.
“Yup, thought he was a hologram and sucked that sucker straight up!”
Mariah let out a shriek of laughter and took several minutes to control herself while Maggie elaborated further. She could only imagine sucking up Benedict in a hoover. She would need to see him first. The damn coward still hadn’t shown himself. No, Benedict was quite happy to cowardly hide in the shadows.
“He kept spinning, and his face was all elongated and stuff. It was hysterical,” Maggie said, finally giggling too.
Mariah could imagine the image and burst into a gale of laughter. If only she could do something similar to the yellow-bellied ghost she was dealing with.
“Maggie!” Mariah snickered.
“I can’t believe I sucked a ghost up and punched him twice! I thought ghosts were see-through! But I connected with his nose!”
Mariah began laughing, which infuriated Benedict.
“Get out!” he roared.
“He’s at it again.”
Mariah sighed.
“What are we going to do?” Maggie inquired.
“I’m not leaving! This is my dream!” Mariah exclaimed.
“Bloody-minded woman!” Benedict shouted.
Maggie laughed helplessly, and Mariah joined in.
