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Lincoln glanced at his watch. “We’ve got about an hour before Logan serves dinner. We should get started.”
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Brea
Thanks to Margaretand the staff doing most of the prep work, we were able to dive right into setting up the data center. Ryker had more monitors than I’d ever seen him set up along the tables, but the long room and all the space meant that he had no trouble fitting everything in.
He had his usual cases with our wireless equipment, cameras, and any other ghost hunting equipment we needed occupying another table already. He was a machine when it came to set up, but I was impressed at how quickly he’d managed this one.
The equipment we needed to cover the main floor was stacked near the door. We all started grabbing cameras and extension cords, then heading different directions to get footage everywhere we could.
The first door I opened was a cozy lounge. There was a large fireplace and plenty of comfortable seating. A polished wood bar was off to the side and fully stocked. I made a mental note to tell the guys about it. This might make for a nice room to relax in at some point.
I set up two cameras in the room: one on the bar facing the main portion of the room, and then one near the doorway facing the bar so there was no inch of the room left unmonitored.
Ryker had gone all out when ordering. Our cameras had plenty of audio equipment attached, meaning that we’d hear and see pretty much anything that happened to this portion of the house.
I was just plugging the camera and extension cords into an outlet when I stood up and froze. A cold crept along my skin and my breath caught in my lungs.
There was a woman in a long, elegant dress sitting at the bar. It was dark, and I couldn’t make out the exact color since I could see right through her.
My fears about my powers getting stronger were definitely on point. It wasn’t often that I saw a full entity just sitting here like this.
I didn’t know what to do or say, I was frozen as I stared at her.
She started singing. It was a haunting melody but beautiful in its own right. Her voice was melodic as she sang along to music I couldn’t hear. She was tapping her fingernails against the bar as she smiled at someone behind it.
I couldn’t see them and I had a suspicion she was living in a moment in the past, unaware of my presence.
Using her as a focus, I shifted the camera, making sure that I could see exactly where she was. I doubted that we’d find anything on camera like what I was seeing in person, but I tried not to react or panic.
It wasn’t fucking easy. This was insane.
My heart pounded as I worked and my head was swimming by the time I finished.
She still hadn’t responded by the time I’d set it up, so I slipped out of the room as quietly as I could. A soft hand touched my shoulder, and the scream I let out echoed on the walls.
“Holy shit, angel, what’s wrong?” Ethan said, turning me around to face him. My eyes were wide as I studied him and he glanced behind me to see what I was panicking about.
“This place is definitely haunted.”
ChapterSix
Brea
“Shut up, it’s actually a castle!” Astrid gasped as she leaned closer to the screen like she could see more of the room by getting closer to her phone. Her eyes were full of excitement as she looked around me.
I switched the view away from my face and panned the room slowly. I was standing in the dining room, but her reactions had me wanting to show her even more.
“Just wait,” I teased as I slowly walked through the main floor, showing her everything from the foyer to the library.
“Oh my God, that’s like out ofBeauty and the Beast. Swoon.”
“I had the same thought,” I said as I looked around the giant library. There were rows of bookshelves filled to the brim. They had everything from classics, to sci-fi, horror, biographies, and even some smutty romance.
I had a feeling that Elizabeth was behind those last additions, and I chuckled, thinking of what her father would have said about that.
Everything I heard about Patrick made him seem like he lived and breathed status and power. I doubt he even stepped foot in here to read unless he was adding some rare first editions.
