Page 28 of Treasure and Tarot

“I was talking to the ghosts.”

“Oh.” Mason burst into gales of laughter. “They’re like family.”

“They are, a few generations removed.” He frowned. “Though Abby says there’s a bad man who shakes her feet and wakes her up.”

Law, who had been about to turn on the camera again, stopped. “Wait. So a ghost is physically touching that little girl?”

“That’s what she says. Bastian says he’s seen it.”

“Dude, that is so not cool.”

Mason nodded. “That’s beyond good TV. So, we don’t mention that, just that the ghosts have gotten physical, right?”

“Right.” God, he loved his crew. They were the kind of people he wanted around him, unlike his family and their lawyer.

Iago nodded, frowning around the room. “Y’all have to be decent to that little girl. She’s innocent.”

There was a hum, almost, a sound as if several entities had joined together to give some energy. It raised the hair on the back of his neck, made his teeth rattle.

Mason’s mouth dropped open. “That’s wild. Start filming, Law. I’ll check the spirit box.”

Colton looked at the camera. “We’re hearing a hum, a thrumming as if the spirits are trying to communicate…”

Chapter

Eleven

“Hey, Sebastian, I need to talk to you.”

Sabastian looked up from his book. Abby was playing on the swing set in the park, and he was enjoying the day. After three days of filming and having Colton back in town, he still wasn’t used to hearing his name in that voice. “Sure, what’s up?”

“The guys and I have a question.”

“Shoot.”

“Is there a reason that you can think of where some spirit in the house would be bothering Abby? Like specifically?”

Seb shrugged. “I mean, not that I can think of. I guess I always sort of assumed it was one of the kids, you know, trying to play with her.”

“Right, but she said it was a mean man in the interviews,” Colton said, coming to sit next to him on the bench. “She specifically said that mean man, right? Not mean kid, not mean boy, not mean girl. Mean man.”

“Why don’t you ask her?” He didn’t know. He never thought about it that particularly, he guessed. Maybe he didn’t want to think about there being a mean man.

“Well, okay. Can you come with me? I want you to hear whatever she has to say.”

All right, that was actually kind of sweet. “Sure, I’d be… I mean, that’s fine.”

“How are you?”

Sebastian kind of grinned. How was he? Hell, he didn’t know. He was kind of okay. He was also kind of not okay. But really, he was sort of settled, and that made him kind of stupidly happy, in fact. The fact Colton was a good guy was satisfying, and it made him feel like less of a loser.

It meant something that Colton hadn’t run out on them. Even if they weren’t going to ever get back together.

“I miss my bed, but basically, I’m all right. How’s the filming going?”

Colton smiled at him, eyes lighting up. “It’s an incredibly active house, which you well know. It’s crazy, wild active.”

“Yeah, I mean, it’s always been pretty busy, but since Abby, it’s just exploded. She hit the terrible threes, and so did the house.”

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