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and she freaked out. I had to pretend I was kidding to stop her running off on us. That really motivated us to get this sorted before opening.”
    “I can see that would be a problem. You don’t want your receptionist shooting out whenever she hears a creaking floorboard.” She chuckled. “It pays to have good sense of humour in this job.”
    Both men nodded. Faye had grown used to people treating her warily, as if she were a bit of a nutcase, a hippie freak, but these two seemed to like that about her.
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    FAYE’S SPIRIT
    Saskia Walker
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    “You seem confident about your work, are you always successful?” Garth moved the conversation onto more personal ground, and he seemed genuinely curious.
    “Mostly, yes. There was this one case I was involved in where a ghost lingered on after I’d been there. It was a difficult one, because the ghost had attached itself to someone who was still living. Its presence did diminish though, and I still visit there to see how things are. I’m hoping that we can work towards a quick result to enable you to open up here without concerns.” She paused and thought about the next statement. “I can already sense the paranormal activity in the house, in case you were wondering. It’s increased since I arrived.”
    “Impressive,” Jai commented. “I’m not getting anything outside of what’s shooting between the three of us.”
    Faye almost dropped her pen.
    He grinned.
    When Garth looked at him questioningly, Jai shrugged it off.
    Faye couldn’t help laughing. His comment thrilled her to bits. “Back to our ghost, do you get any sense that she’s unhappy that you are here, that she might resent you being in her house?”
    Garth looked surprised. “ Her house?”
    “As she was resident here first she may think of it as her home and that you have invaded her space. Has she been negative towards either you in any way? Slamming doors, cold draughts?”
    Both men thought about that for a while then shook their heads.
    “That’s a good start. She likes you.” She paused to smile their way, braving herself to match up to them.
    They both smiled back.
    “We’ll need to find out why she lingers, in order to usher her on her way. It helps if we don’t start in a war zone.” She moved on quickly in order to take the edge off her comment. The last ghost she had interrogated had been hugely put out about being requested to move on. The case had taken much longer than the weekend she had scheduled, and she hoped the same wouldn’t happen here. Although being around her hosts would make up for that, if it did happen.
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    FAYE’S SPIRIT
    Saskia Walker
    16

    They stared across at her while she made her notes. She gave herself a moment to absorb the feeling of having two men focused on her in unison. No wonder her sisters liked it so much. Would she ever get a little taste of that kind of intimacy as well? One glance in Jai’s direction made her think he would be up for it. Jai flirted openly, engaging with her every time she looked up. Garth was more of an intense kind of man, but he was forthright and that had its own appeal. The fact that they were straight also fascinated her. Nevertheless, they were more than business partners. The quality of their relationship reinforced the fact that they’d known each other for a long time. Had they shared women before, was that what she sensed?
    Just then something on her phone caught her eye and she opened up the link. She scanned the information quickly. “Did you know that your property used to be a brothel?”
    “No, seriously?” Jai spoke, but when she looked at Garth he was more than a little startled too.
    “It’s amazing what you can find out on the Internet these days. You can check it out yourself, now that you know.” She continued to scan the information. “It looks as if the place was boarded up and left to rot when the brothel was shut down in 1965. Other than that, no