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“Sheesh, woman!” Kit sounded exasperated.
“It’s okay. Listen, family meeting tonight. I’ll text you the hotel,” Maggie interrupted the argument.
“Are you mad at me?” Stephanie asked, not knowing which person she was really asking.
Kit glowered.
“Nope, I’ll explain when we meet.” Maggie’s tone was all reassurance. “Love you!”
“Love you too!”
???
“Are you telling me we all bought a damn haunted inn, and they happen to be inhabited by siblings?” Cole demanded in absolute disbelief.
Stephanie sat beside him, not saying anything but trying to appear as concerned as everyone else.
Yet something struck her as false to Cole’s claims, almost as if this wasn’t a surprise. Out of everybody present, Stephanie knew Cole the best.
“That seems fated,” Stephanie murmured.
Cole turned an incredulous stare on her. “Everyone here has been fighting their ghost, but not you. What’s going on between you two?” he demanded.
Stephanie blushed but held Cole’s gaze. There was nothing happening, albeit she and Kit weren’t arguing like the other five were.
“That’s none of your business!” Stephanie retorted, and Cole’s eyes grew wide.
“Woah! Did Stephanie just snap at Cole?” Tilly whispered.
“She’s pretty damn protective of her ghost. I want to kill mine!” Mariah growled. Her gaze narrowed on Stephanie.
Stephanie blushed even deeper and squirmed in her chair. She didn’t wish to be a part of this conversation and avoided Cole’s gaze.
“Good for you. Lucian’s decided he’s going to marry me!” Maggie said and began laughing. “Can you believe the situation we’re all in?”
“Hold on, go back to marrying you,” Callie demanded, swapping shocked gazes with everyone. “Ghosts can’t wed the living!”
“Oh, let me tell you about the Rakehell Six. Ladies and gent, keep your naughty bits locked up because a ghost can impregnate a living woman!” Maggie chortled.
Five wide stares gaped at her.
Stephanie was completely bemused as everybody sat around wondering what their next step was. All six of them told the story. Their spirit was protecting the inn and surroundingvillages from a great evil. But only Maggie spoke about what her evilness was. Stephanie had no idea about the danger Kit was defending the world from.
“Do we tell them we know where their siblings are?” Cole finally asked. “It might make Cecilia sweeter if she knew.”
“No, somehow, I feel that’s a bad thing. Suppose they realise their family is trapped, especially Cecilia. In that case, they will be distracted and focus their attention on escaping their prisons,” Maggie said.
“I don’t like that word.” Callie frowned.
Stephanie fully agreed with her.
“But they are imprisoned. What if the evil escapes because they’re worried about their siblings? And then it destroys innocent lives. What happens if the evil kills one of them properly, and they disappear? No, there’s a greater plan at play. Listening to the Rakehell Six, whoever gets free first will find one of their family. We must allow events to take place naturally,” Maggie commented.
Stephanie didn’t enjoy thinking of that. It was a horrible conundrum; tell Kit she knew where his siblings were and save his worry and not knowing. Or speak, and he’s too distracted and his evil escapes. What a damned choice faced her.
“I agree. As much as I wish to throttle Benedict, I don’t want whatever he is guarding to escape. I feel that would be terrible indeed,” Mariah agreed.
“We should take an oath, together the six of us, we will not tell them until they return to life and vanquish their evil,” Maggie suggested.
