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She’d never see Mal again. She must be tired if that thought made her want to cry. But really, what place could he take in her life once this was done? He was clearly a con man. And how would she introduce him to friends? “This is my boyfriend, Mal. He leads ghost tours?” Yes, that would be exactly the step she needed to be taken seriously.

“You need to go,” Maddy said, her voice firm. “You can’t be here anymore. You don’t belong here.” Then Maddy’s head snapped sideways and four scratch marks appeared on her face. Mal caught her shoulders and pulled her around behind him, pulse thundering. “You need to go,” he said to the space in front of where Maddy had been. “You’re not wanted here.”

Mal eased back behind the others who filed into the dining room. “What do you two have your heads together about back here?”
“I was just about to ask how long you’d been full of bull,” she retorted. “So I was right. You were talking about me.”

She lifted her fingers to her nose. She couldn’t identify the scent, but it wasn’t blood. It wasn’t Karo syrup, either. “Where did it go?” she asked, looking at Mal. Whose eyes were glazed as he stared at her ass. She sat on her heels quickly and snapped her fingers in front of his nose. “Watch it.” He winked. “I was. And when you looked back at me like that—” He shook his head. “Damn.”

She’d been editor of the Washington Square News but had turned down two offers from major papers out of obligation to her family. Then they sold the magazine without telling her, and "Extravagant" was now "Adventure," an adventure tours magazine. And she was out here to hunt ghosts.