Restless Spirits: Chapters 23 and 24

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Chapter Twenty-Three

I knew what I had to do. I was less clear on the how, but I trusted that it would come to me. I needed to get Joe somewhere safe, where he could talk to me without any interference from Sarah. But first, I had to find him. I searched the house high and low, but all I found was Max Baird crying in the basement with Buster lying sympathetically at his feet. There was no sign of Joe, nor of Sarah. Which meant that she was probably still busy punishing him.

Whether it was part of his punishment or the safe place he went to recover, I wasn’t sure, but I knew Joe would go to the third floor eventually, if he wasn’t there already. The times I’d been there, it was be…