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To which Hudson hollered, “Even though I was already trying tomakeher come.”
Ignoring him, Oaklynn returned her attention to me. “So…”
I lifted my eyebrows, waiting for her to actually ask something, but all she did was shake her head as if lost.
Alec, however, murmured, “This is so cool. You can see people stuck in the in-between. You think you’re supposed to be, like, her spirit guide that helps escort her back to life again?”
“I…” Shaking my head cluelessly, I admitted, “I have no idea.” But I kind of hoped not because I didn’t have a clue how todothat.
Just then, Keene skidded into the kitchen, out of breath, and a worried Damien was hot on his heels.
“What? What happened?” Keene demanded as Damien went to Oaklynn to personally check her for damage.
From the counter, Raina brightened and pointed. “Ooh! I know them. That one’s Oaklynn’s boyfriend. And he…” She took a moment to squint a little more thoughtfully before she tipped her head and murmured, “He slept with my sister.”
“I called for Faith, notyou two,” Oaklynn told the both of them.
“Yeah, but you were using your something-paranormal-just-happened voice,” Keene countered before he pulled open a cabinet and reached inside to grab a cup, extending his arm right through Raina’s neck as he did.
“Ugh!No!” she squawked and ducked away from him only to accidentally move through Damien’s elbow in the process. “Too many people. Too many people.”
“Come over here,” I offered helpfully, waving her forward. “No one will invade my space, I promise.”
“Okay. Thank you.” As she hurried to my side to keep from getting impaled again, both Damien and Keene blinked at me as if I’d lost my mind.
Finally, Keene shook his head and demanded, “Who the fuck are you talking to?”
“Car Accident Girl,” Alec spoke up, summarizing for me. “Her spirit has somehow tethered itself to him, and so far, he’s the only one who can see her.”
Absolute silence filled the kitchen before Damien glanced at his girlfriend in dismay. “So evenyoucan’t see her?”
While she shrugged and shook her head, Keene squinted in question. “Car Accident—you mean, Raina? Kinsey’s sister?”
I grimaced at the mention of Kinsey but then nodded. “Yeah.”
Faith finally swept into the kitchen with Hudson hobbling in on his crutches behind her, grumbling about not getting any early-morning nookie.
“What’s going on?” Faith asked, lifting her hands in question.
As the room flooded with various explanations about what had happened, I glanced over at Raina who was still hovering directly beside me, attempting to stay out of everyone else’s way.
“I was really hoping at least Oaklynn and Faith would be able to see you too,” I mumbled miserably.
She bit her lip and sent me a sad glance back. “Yeah.”
“So the chick you met on the beach house roof reallywasa ghost?” Faith asked me with lifted eyebrows just before Hudson added, “Unless he’s still hallucinating.”
But I shook my head. “I don’t think I’m hallucinating. She knows way too much about her life. I was able to look up details online and find her father’s business from what she gave me. How could I make that up?” Then I glanced at Faith. “And how could she be a ghost ifyoutwo can’t see her, especially since her heart’s still beating?”
“It’s like I said.” Alec nodded enthusiastically. “He can see people stuck in the in-between.”
Faith’s cat, Salem, came moseying into the room, shimmying between legs as she meandered along to rub her tail against just about everyone she passed until she came to me…or rather, to Raina.
Pausing in her tracts, the feline looked up at the ghost.
“Hey, kitty-kitty.” Raina crouched down to extend her hand in greeting.
But after Salem sniffed her fingers, she hissed before whirling away and darting right back out of the kitchen.
