Restless Spirits: Chapters 19 & 20

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Chapter Nineteen

I found Joe in the attic, leafing through a magazine he’d discovered. An old Cosmo from sometime in the 1970s, judging by the cover. “Did you know that there are thirteen ways to pleasure your man?” he asked without putting it down. “Can’t say as I knew that. ‘Course, things being what they are, I’d be happy with just the one.” He closed the magazine and looked up at me. “You came back.”

“Yup.” I joined him on the settee. “I can tell you missed me.”

He glanced down at the magazine and tossed it aside. “Needed something to keep my mind occupied so’s I didn’t lose it with worry.” He leaned in a little and said, confidentially, “I’m glad you’re back.”

I smiled. “So am…