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So did Tony.
“Oh, well, there’s the witchcraft angle,” Tony said. “I told you. A scorned woman is a rough one. She didn’t hesitate to curse him. If he’s wandering around like they are, it sounds like everyone who was involved got cursed.”
Gabby laughed.
“The real victim in this is Elizabeth. She was given a haunted castle. It’s not bad enough she walks through blood all day, but now, she’s got a ghost war going on under her gifted roof. Those men are dead.”
Finn was amused.
Elizabeth seemed to be the type of person who said what she meant, and carried through with it too.
“We need to give them peace, and it’ll calm down. Graham said it wasn’t this bad before. They are likely stirred up from the construction.”
Oh, and one more thing.
“And that we moved Ceit. Graham said she had gone quiet. Well, she’s not now. I think we opened her grave, and we moved her into the storm. She was afraid of that spirit. She spooked out.”
Finn pointed out the obvious again.
“She didn’t seem afraid of Duncan,” he admitted.
No, she didn’t.
And as for Ciarán Begbie, she just didn’t want him around.
“If she wasn’t afraid of them, and just didn’t like Ciarán Begbie, who killed Ceit.”
Tony considered it.
“And would Duncan allow the mother of his children to be hurt? He and Ciarán were on a battlefield. Could they sneak away?”
That was a good question, and one they didn’t have answers to.
“We’ll have to figure that out,” Gabby admitted.
Then, she took out the final page.
“We’re coming to the end of our letters,” she admitted. “There have to be more here. They have to be somewhere. What if Duncan continued the journal? These pages were likely ripped out when the family split. I was thinking about Rebecca and her journal entry.”
They let her talk.
“What if the family was heading out of here, part of it, and they never expected to come back. So, the family destroyed the book, or planned on it? They scattered the pages to protect the family secret.”
Finn was curious.
“That Duncan was gay?”
She nodded.
“We know for a fact that he only had one child. Callum Granndach. His bloodline had to only come from his one and only child. Maybe the family didn’t want this part of the history revealed.”
That was a good point.
Yeah, but where?
Picking up the next one, she read it to them.
“This is the last letter we have from Ceit. Her death had to be shortly after this.”
