Page 166 of The Valiant Knight
Gabby composed herself.
Then, she told him about the craziest thing that had happened to her in the storage room.
“Ceit appeared. She made the note land at my feet, and I think Ciarán was the one who killed her. Why else would she give me the note from her to Duncan?”
That was a good question, and now, he had so many more to get answers to.
“She spoke to you?”
She shook her head.
“No, I asked questions, and she nodded or shook her head. We were right. She was killed. In this note, she feared Ciarán, and I think he did her in. We have to figure out who he was, and how he connects to Duncan. I think that he’s his man-at-arms, and lover.”
He listened to her.
“It makes sense. He was always with Duncan, and Duncan was responsible for her death. Ceit nodded when I asked that.”
Oh, boy.
This was getting wild.
“She’s upset because we disturbed her grave, but she doesn’t want to go back out there.”
He didn’t like this at all.
“I asked her how many ghosts were here, and she held up four fingers. I think we have Duncan, Ciarán, Ceit, and…”
And she didn’t know who the last one could be. In fact, she wasn’t sure if the fourth spirit was even tied to this. She hadn’t asked that.
Damn.
She needed to learn to ask better questions. Elizabeth would have known what to ask.
“We’re on the right track because another spirit showed up, and Ceit was clearly afraid of him. She slipped away to escape, and when he turned toward me…”
He stopped her.
“Something came over me in the tower, Gabby,” he said. “I don’t enjoy nearly hurting you, so whatever that was, it’s not a good spirit. It’s dangerous.”
Oh, she got that feeling too, but they couldn’t stop now. They’d opened this can of worms, and now, they had to find out as much as they could.
The last thing she wanted to do was drop this in Elizabeth’s lap to figure out.
“She is trapped. We have to figure this out so she can have peace. There’s more going on here that we don’t have all the answers to. When Gryphen and Ian found Ceit’s grave, it calmed down. We have to keep going.”
That didn’t sound good.
Not.
At.
All.
When they heard footsteps, they saw Tony coming their way. Finn was glad he was there because he didn’t know how to do this.
Solving crime was one thing, but chasing down ghosts? That was a whole other issue. He blacked out in that tower, and that scared him.
“It’s time for dinner,” he said.
