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They did it again, Mrs. Chi said.
“Who did what again?” Della asked.
“Are you talking to a dead cat?” Miranda asked.
They hurt someone.
“Who did they hurt?” When the spirit didn’t answer, Della threw out another question. “Do you know the names of the guys who are doing this?” Della motioned for Miranda to be quiet.
No. The old woman looked down at the basketball. But I showed you.
“What did you show me?” Della asked.
You saw.
“What did I see?” Della stood up. “I didn’t see enough to help me stop these creeps.”
You saw, Mrs. Chi repeated and then she and the basketball vanished.
Della snagged her phone, and called Burnett. It went to voice mail. “Call me,” Della said and started toward the door.
“Where are you going?” A scared Miranda popped out of the bed.
“To see Chase,” Della said, realizing they’d never gone over the vision. Maybe Chase would have an idea what Mrs. Chi’s words had meant.
“Can I come?” Miranda asked. “I don’t want to stay here with a dead cat.” Then the girl paused. “Or are you and Chase going to get naked again?”
“We weren’t naked,” Della snapped.
“If I’d been a few minutes later, you would have been.”
Della growled and wanted to deny it, but wasn’t sure it was altogether untrue. “There wasn’t a dead cat. Just a … dead … person.” Then, flinching at how that sounded, and hoping Mrs. Chi wasn’t in earshot, she added, “A sweet ol’ lady.” She flinched again. “Not that old.”
“I’m still coming.” Miranda stood up, looking around the room as if afraid something might jump out at her. “Why did I have to get stuck with two ghost-magnet roommates?”
“You’re just lucky like that,” Della said.
And so it seemed Della was lucky too, because Kylie stepped up on the porch and the witch decided not to come.
Chapter Twenty-six
The heavy-footed steps moving to his door told Chase the identity of his visitor before he got Burnett’s scent.
“Come in,” Chase said, though he doubted Burnett considered an invitation necessary.
The man stormed in. Chase didn’t waste a second. “Did you get anything from the guy Stone sent?”
“What the hell were you thinking?” Burnett thundered.
“I didn’t know Stone knew where I was!”
“I’m not talking about that! I’m talking about you going to that damn prison!”
“I was acting on some advice I got from another agent.”
Burnett stepped closer, his eyes bright with anger. “What idiot of an agent would have advised—”
“You,” Chase said, proud of himself. “You told me that to find the scum, I needed to ask other scums. The prisoners at—”
