“We need to figure out a few things, if we can’t get the curse removed. While that’s the plan with the psychic, we don’t know if she can pull that off.”
He had a point.
Ian continued.
“Keeping that in mind, the majority of the questions start with who killed Ceit? WeTHINKit was her father, but we don’t know. Maybe that’s why her spirit never settled. She was murdered. After that, we need to locate Ciarán Begbie’s bones. That’s likely why the two of them are unsettled. When we put Ceit back in the crypt, she calmed right down.”
Graham agreed.
“She hasn’t been around. I haven’t heard her crying or singing lullabies.”
Michael shook his head.
“Nope. That’sNOTwhat I want to hear in the middle of the night. One‘Rock-A-Bye Baby’, and this man is out.”
They all laughed.
Yeah, that tended to be the consensus.
Gryphen sat on the couch, and Ian was in his lap. The whole time, he was letting his man play sleuth. He dug this kind of thing, and honestly, he liked being back here.
“Then what?” Gryphen asked.
Gabby was to the point.
“Who is in the lake, and if it’s Ciarán, why was he dumped in there? Maybe that’s why he’s pissy. We know Duncan made the choice to bury his wife outside of the castle, whether it be because of Ciarán or not, but maybe he’s seeking retribution because of that cold-hearted dump in the water.”
They considered it.
“I don’t know,” Ian said, talking it out. “Why would they be chummy as ghosts if Duncan tossed him in the water? They wanted us to find those paintings, clearly, and we did. We need to figure out what he’s trying to tell us.”
Yeah, they did.
That meant one thing.
“After we hit up the church archive search, we should stop in and see the psychic,” Gabby admitted. “We might be able to get some insight into what’s going on here. We’re kind of failing miserably when it comes to communication.”
Michael raised his hand. It appeared he had to remind them, and it wasn’t because he wanted to participate in this. If he had his way, he’d get married, come back here, and begin the honeymoon.
He wasn’t a ghost chaser.
That wasn’t his thing.
“We’re forgetting one thing. I have to go back into the water.”
That hung there, and his fiancé was staring at him with fear in his eyes.
“I’ll be okay,” Michael reassured.
Yeah, but his best friend didn’t like that idea at all, and he made sure he was aware of it.
“I don’t know if you should,” Gryphen admitted. “You said you nearly died.”
Yeah, but that was because he’d done it alone. There was safety in numbers, and he was good with giving Graham his back to watch.
He trusted him.
“I’ll be okay. My partner will be there to save me. He’ll make sure I’m good.”
