Once the heat from Callahan’s body was gone, it was icy cold.
“I’m going to check it out.”
He sounded as if he’d had it with the crazy antics. Callahan jumped up and grabbed his pants. This was not how I’d envisioned this scene playing out.
I grabbed my robe and padded into the hallway behind him. He was hopping into his shoes when I made it out into the hallway.
“What are you going to do?” I asked.
“I’m going to check it out. You stay here, okay?”
My hero. It was nice to have a strong man around once in a while to check out the spooky noises. I got tired of having to do it myself all the time. But what was the noise? Had the same thing started all over again? I thought the black magic had gone for good. Stupid me.
Chapter Four
Once he’d closed the front door, I peeked out and watched him. Callahan stood on the porch and peered around looking for the source of the noise. After a few seconds, he moved down the front steps and made his way around the house. I didn’t want to let him out of my sight in case he needed my help, so I slipped back into the bedroom and looked out the window for a better view.
I spotted Callahan as he moved steadily along the side of the house, but he wasn’t the only thing I saw. In front of him was a dark shadow. Just like the one I’d seen before. Why was it back? I thought all of that was behind us now. My heart thumped. Did Callahan see this thing too? Was he following it? The shadow floated around the side of the house and Callahan trailed along behind it. I still couldn’t tell if he knew it was there.
Letting the curtain fall back, I dashed from that window and made my way to the back of the house. I had to warn Callahan. Again I moved from window to window looking out for Callahan. The moon lit up the sky so that I could see his movements, otherwise I wouldn’t have known where he’d gone. But for a brief moment he wasn’t in my sight. I’d run out of windows to look out of until he reached the kitchen. What if he met up with the shadow at that moment when I couldn’t see him? No, I didn’t even want to think of it.
When I made it to the kitchen, I spotted Callahan again. I let out a temporary breath of relief. I moved to the door with every intention of warning him about the dark shadow. He inched his way along the side of the house, but the shadow had disappeared. Had it been my imagination? No. I knew what I saw and this was exactly like the thing that had shown up before.
I hurried to the front of the house just as Callahan was coming through the front door. I almost slid into the foyer with my bunny slippers. If I was going to be sexy around Callahan I needed to ditch the animal shoes. I looked at him expectantly.
“I didn’t find anything,” he said, placing the flashlight back onto the small table by the door.
So he hadn’t seen the black shadow. Should I mention it to him? I just wanted to stop talking about witchcraft, ghosts, and the supernatural for one day. Couldn’t we be normal for just a few hours? Who was I kidding? Of course we couldn’t.
“Did you see a shadow figure out there?”
He met my gaze. “Just now?”
“Yeah, I thought I saw someone out there.”
He peeked out the window again, then looked back to me. “As far as I could tell there was nothing out there.”
“It looked as if you were following it. But I guess you didn’t see it after all.”
He shook his head. “No, I didn’t see or hear anything. I thought maybe it was an animal that had wandered up onto the porch.”
I gave a half-hearted smile. “That was probably it. There are a lot of raccoons and stray cats around here.”
“That’s probably it,” he said.
The noise might have been an animal, but that shadow wasn’t. I was sure of that. How would I go back to normal now? Okay, I wasn’t quite sure what normal was for me anymore, but I wanted a chance to find out. All I would think about for the rest of the