Page 21 of My Blind Date is a Ghost

Parker looks to the empty space and smiles. “Hello, friend.”

I have to gulp. I am having the weirdest sensation. It’s as if he’s talking to me. I feel electrified. As if it would cause a spark if I touched someone.

“If you really are there,” Parker goes on, “let us know if you can.”

I hold my breath. After a moment, the flowers on the table sway, as of someone swiped their hand over them.

“Wait,” I say, dropping to my knees to get a better look. For a moment, just a quick second, I saw…something, I’m sure of it. “Do it…do it again, please.”

“What is it?” Parker asks.

“Shh,” I say, more harshly than I meant to, but I have to concentrate. The flowers start to move again, but this time I clearly see a hand pass through them.

I gasp and then say, “Once more.”

This time, when the flowers move, I follow the hand to an arm, then up to a shoulder, and finally to the face of a woman I know so well.

“Sabrina!” I choke out. She smiles at me and then flickers out like a lightbulb. “Sabrina! Sabrina, come back!”

Parker is on his feet now. “Who is Sabrina?”

But I hardly hear him. I can’t believe it. I stumble back, my hand to my mouth.

The bell above the door to the shop rings and I look up to see my darling husband, but it’s not him. It’s Beverly and Beckett Dawson.

“What’s going on?” Beverly asks, clearly seeing that something is wrong. Beckett comes toward me.

“Cora? Are you all right?”

I shake my head as I run toward him, taking his hands in mine. “Beckett, I saw a ghost!”

CHAPTER 10

BECKETT

I stop in my tracks. “What do you mean you saw a ghost?”

She runs up to me, her face flushed with excitement. “A ghost. I saw a ghost.”

“How is that possible?” I ask.

“I don’t know she says.” She is smiling so broadly, her cheeks are like two shiny red apples. I feel a compulsion to cup her adorable face in my hands. But I restrain myself. Something strange is happening here, and I need to pay attention to the details.

“Wait, slow down,” Beverly says. “What happened exactly? Tell me.”

“Parker and I were talking about how I had never seen any other ghosts while I was…umm…deceased,” she says. “But we know the ghosts are out there because he can sense them. In fact, he could sense one sitting right next to him as we were talking.”

“So, you weren’t the only ghost haunting The Book Coven?” I ask.

She shakes her head. “No. In fact, when I was a ghost, I had observed Parker interacting with ghosts other than me. I knew they were all around us, but I couldn’t see them.”

“So,” Parker interjects,” I asked Cora if she had seen any ghosts since she came back to us. She said no, but then, she hadn’t really looked for them either.”

Cora nods. “So I focused all my attention, all my energy, and I saw her. I saw Sabrina.”

Beverly’s hand goes to her heart and she looks pale. “You saw…Sabrina? Are you sure?”

Cora takes Beverly’s hands in hers and nods. “Yes, Beverly. I saw her. She’s here.”

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