Her look said she was confused. Nick lifted his hand from his straining cock, and she grinned at him. Nick wanted to beg her to come back to him, but she sat in the chair now and he moaned.
“We’ll play in a bit. Okay, the reason I think your stepfather is taking you over is because your eyes are brown. His aren’t. I’m betting that they were blue. Right?” He nodded. “So are yours when he takes you. I would bet that anyone that enters you, that’s what you can see…their eyes, not yours.” Nick lay there for a second before he leapt from the bed. He had to know. It was a conversation that he and Steele had had on the way home…how one would know if they were possessed. As he pulled on his jeans, he looked at Addie.
“Dress. We have to figure this out. You might have just saved us a world of hurt.” He pulled a clean shirt over his head and winced at the pain. “We had no idea that she’d taken me until I fell. It was as if I was in a trance when I tried to kill her husband. Now we can figure it out. Christ, we should have…are you coming with me?”
Nodding, she stood up and pulled on her pants he’d taken off her. He wanted to have her things moved in with him, but he didn’t want to do things too fast and upset her. As soon as she stood up, Nick pulled her to him and kissed her. The thought of going back to the bed and making love to her again was profound. Instead, he took her hand and led her out of the bedroom. This was great news if she was right.
And she was right. Steele was thrilled not just to have had this figured out, but he said he was glad the two of them had worked things out. Nick was so happy that they had, he took Addie back up to his room and thanked her several more times, taking her against or on any hard surface he could find. And sometimes they even made it to the bed.
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Joel hated this. Not the being dead part, just not being able to make any money. He was still sitting at a table in a café when the paper he’d been reading was suddenly snatched away. Before he could yell at the woman to put it back, three other people came to stand beside him.
He still had no idea how to figure out who was dead and who wasn’t. He supposed that there was a trick to it, but so far he’d not been able to pick up on it right away. Usually when Dane would start talking to them with him he’d know, but not before then. Not for the first time he thought of the book he’d left behind. It would have helped him a great deal, he was sure.
He’d also been thinking of a lot of other things. Not just his life, but the lives of the others around him. Addison for one. And then there was his mother. He wondered if she missed him, or even thought of him. Joel thought—
“Ben here says that the old broad is on the move. Got herself a For Sale sign in the front yard with a big tab thing that says sold. Told me that it was on the market for only a few hours before they came out and put the sold thing on it. She’s one rich fuck, did you know that?” He told him he did. “Well, she’s traveling here in Ohio. Any idea why she’d do that?”
“I don’t, not really. Do you suppose she has another house somewhere? And what of her daughter? Did you find out anything about that?” Dane nodded and smiled. It was his “you’re gonna love this” smile, not the one that scared him. “What is it?”
“The big shit lawyer was there when my buddy Taco was there. He said that he served them. Not sure what that meant right away, so I had me a little look-see myself. Damned if the old broad didn’t own that house too. And she’s kicking their asses out of the house, along with the staff.” Joel knew that she owned the house, but had also thought that she’d willed it to them so that they’d have it when she died. Apparently not. “There was some major yelling going on too. Mostly it was the woman, but she calmed down some when the lawyer left. Seems that the mister thought that the old broad had gone off the deep end, and his wife thought for sure that it was all because of their daughter. I’m assuming they mean your wifey to be.”
“What does Addison have to do with this?” Dane shrugged and told him he just spread the news, he didn’t make it. “You think she’s headed to her now? I mean, you think that the old broad is going there to be with Addison? Then all we’d have to do is find her.”
Joel wasn’t sure what he might do when he found Addison. He’d been thinking of having her killed. Keeping her with him for the rest of his days would have been…fun, he supposed, but he was bored now. He wondered how long making her life hell would appeal to him.