Chapter 110

They left the shop by walking through the back door, ending up in an alley. From there, they made their way home.

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“We had a couple of interested spectators,” Sage said as soon as he could get Mike alone for a moment. The detective had caught the case, and as often happened Sage was on the scene in the guise of a CSI technician in case the ghost of the victim was there and watching.

“Ghosts, I presume,” Mike replied. He knew Sage could see them. He’d known since soon after they’d met, while he was trying to solve the murder of a young man who was now a friend of theirs. A friend thanks to the fact Sage was a medium who could communicate with the dead.

“Yep. I was going to try to talk to them but—2rdquo; Sage gestured toward the recessed shop entryway a few yards away, aldquo;—they vanished before I could get to them.trdquo;

“Shy ghosts?” Mike chuckled.