A Deadly Lesson (Storage Ghost Murders Book 5) Read Free Page B

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dress.
    Pearl
had her hands on her hips, she nodded towards Abbie and said, “What’s wrong
with madam here? Why’s she looking at me like that?”
    Grace
looked back at Abbie. She looked frightened. Grace said, “There’s no need to be
scared of Pearl. She lives at this shop, she’s a friend of mine.”
    Abbie
gulped. “But she looks so angry.”
    Pearl
barked out, “I always look like this, get used to it!”
    Grace
frowned. The old ghost wasn’t usually this abrupt, what was wrong with her?
    Pearl
folded her arms and muttered to herself. Grace moved closer and quietly said,
“What’s wrong, Pearl?”
    Pearl
tutted and said, “I’ve got a bad feeling brewing in my stomach, a bit like wind
but much worse. Something terrible is going to happen, I can feel it in my
water.”
    Grace
said, “I thought you were feeling it in your stomach.”
    Pearl
pursed her lips and gave Grace a scathing look. Then she said, “I’ll feel it
where I want to feel it! Don’t get fresh with me, young lady.”
    “I
wouldn’t dare,” Grace admitted. In a louder voice she said, “This is Abbie,
she’s eighteen and she died on her birthday.”
    All
the bad humour disappeared from Pearl’s face. She unfolded her arms and moved
over to Abbie. She put her arm around her and said, “I’m sorry to hear that.
Eighteen is no age to die.” Pearl shot a knowing glance at Grace. Grace nodded.
Pearl went on, “And you think you were murdered too?”
    Abbie
nodded, a tear escaped and trickled down her cheek. Pearl pulled her closer.
    Grace
told Pearl what they knew about the night that Abbie died. Pearl nodded and
then asked what Abbie was attached to.
    Grace
had placed the driving book on the shop counter. She walked over and reached
out to touch it, at the same time Abbie flew over with her arm outstretched.
    “No!”
Grace yelled out.
    Too
late. Grace and Abbie touched the book at the same time. The shop began to fade
around them.
    Abbie
whimpered and moved closer to Grace. Her voice shook as she asked, “What’s
happening? Where did your shop go? Where are we?”
    Keeping
her voice calm, Grace said, “We’re going into a vision, a scene from your past.
It’s happening because we touched that driving book at the same time. Don’t
worry, there’s nothing to be frightened of.”
    Abbie
looked around her as a new scene unfolded. She shivered and looked at Grace
with wide eyes. “I am frightened. We’re outside The Old Highway Man pub. I
think it’s the night of my birthday, I recognise Dad’s car in the car park. And
there’s Julianne’s and Brooke’s cars. Brooke’s dad had just bought her a new
car, she wanted me to see it.”
    Grace
and Abbie were standing on a grass verge in front of the pub, the sky was
turning purple. Grace took note of the cars as Abbie pointed them out.
    The
pub door was suddenly flung open, a young girl dashed out.
    Abbie
gasped. “That’s me! Can we stop her? I mean, me? Can we shout at her and tell
her to go back inside?”
    Grace
shook her head. “We can’t do anything except watch. Let’s move closer. The
vision you is crying. Can you remember why?”
    Abbie
frowned. “Someone had said something to me. I think it had something to do with
a secret. I promised them I wouldn’t tell anyone!”
    Grace
was just about to ask who Abbie was talking about when she saw the Vision-Abbie
run on to the road without looking. Grace’s head snapped to the side as she
heard a car approaching.
    The
Vision-Abbie heard it too. She froze in mid-step and looked towards where the
car was coming from. Grace and Ghost-Abbie were abruptly pulled on to the road.
They stood at the side of Vision-Abbie.
    Grace
put her arms out to steady herself. That had never happened before, she’d never
been forced to move in a vision. What was she supposed to see? She looked to
her side and saw the two Abbies, both of them staring straight ahead at the
approaching car. They were both wearing identical looks of horror as