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“I’ll come with you,” Lincoln promised. He put his hand in mine as we headed upstairs.
The moment we got inside our room he pulled me close, his hands on my cheeks as he forced me to look at him.
“Sunshine, everything is going to be fine.We’regoing to be fine,” he pressed his lips to mine. It wasn’t just a kiss, it was a promise, putting all of his possessive protectiveness into that. It warmed me from the inside out.
Only now, I wasn’t thinking about ghosts. I was thinking about him. My hands teased over the waistband of his jeans before I reached for the button.
A loud crash outside of the window had us both pulling apart. The light was still streaming in but the castle shook around us like lightning had struck.
Something was tired of being ignored. I could feel it pushing at our barriers.
The negative energy was now leaking through a bit at a time until my skin was crawling and my heart was pounding in my chest.
Patrick was here and was ready to fight back against our plans to banish him to the other side.
ChapterNineteen
Brea
“Am I tripping or is that painting changing?” Hale asked as we both watched the screaming figure in the painting move closer and closer.
“We both might be because I see it, too,” I mused.
It wasn’t actually scary but definitely strange.
“This isn’t the first illusion we’ve seen here,” I admitted. “Have you ever seen a haunting like this?”
“No, this is wild,” he said with a shake of his head. “So, the pool is this way?”
“Yes,” I said, leading him further in. The smell of chlorine hit us right before we found the door. I pushed it open and we stepped inside the humid room, stopping when something splashed in the water.
“Remington?” I called out.
He popped in right in front of us, so we both jumped.
“Jesus, maybe don’t appear right in front of me next time?” I pleaded.
“You called,” Remington huffed, crossing his arms.
“Sorry. Someone was in the pool and I was asking if it was you. Clearly not, though.”
“Oh, that’s probably Claire, she likes to pretend,” he said before popping out.
“Claire?” I said as we stepped close to the edge.
The water was still now but before we could turn to leave a wave of water was launched at us, covering us both.
Her laughter filled the air at our expense. We both looked like drowned rats now, my hair stuck in front of my face in a twisted, wet mess.
“Cute, Claire. Thanks for that,” I grumbled.
“Aw, show me what’s under that shirt, handsome!” she yelled. Hale grinned and lifted his shirt to show an impressive display of abs that had her giggling and rushing off through the wall.
He dropped his shirt and shook his head.
“So, we have ghosts making us think we’re losing our minds and a flirty ghost demanding to see my abs. This place is something.”
“Too bad you couldn’t stay longer, I have a feeling we’d see a whole lot of wild shit between us,” I laughed.
