Ghost of a Chance Book 1 in Above the Grave Trilogy (27 page)

Liza understood what she had said and had no idea
how to correct it.
So, she just kept her mouth shut and
removed the ring from Drew’s finger and threw it into the tomb
along with Lezetta’s rotting corpse where it belonged.

The vibration and bang that followed was so powerful
that it knocked Liza on her ass and Drew’s body onto the
ground.

“Mary Ann?” Liza said, standing up and wiping the
dust off of her slightly bruising rear end. If it was possible,
Mary Ann looked even paler than she had before.

“Aye?” Mary Ann said shakily, staring at Drew’s
lifeless body in horror.

“I will carry her up to the house.” Liza said after
realizing what Mary Ann was worrying over. “I’m not sure if
there is anything that I can do but I am going to try. I don’t
want to be in this cemetery any more though and I don’t want
her here either.”

“I wish that I was able to come with you.” Mary Ann
said. “Alas, I’ve been trying to get out of this damnable place
for what seems like an eternity. It seems that I am bound to it
and am unable to do so.”

“I don’t plan on letting anyone go anywhere!” Lezetta
screamed as she rose from her above ground grave behind
them. “At least not until the two of you have placed that girl’s
body back into the circle.”

“Sorry to rain o
n your wicked little parade, Lezetta.
You are welcome to reenter Drew’s body all that you like, but
I’m afraid it won’t do you any good. She is dead.” Liza said
through her teeth.

Brendan’s head throbbed. He looked around and saw,
though his vision was blurry, that he was back in the cursed
office of his home, the damnable room that never seemed to be
very welcoming. He tried to sit up, but when he did the pain
raced across the back of his head with such force that he almost
past out again. He laid his head back down on the hard cold
wooden floor. He had to just relax for a moment and let the
birds that had flocked around his head settle their way down.

He laid there breathing in and out. Slowly he tried to
remember what had happened. Someone had hit him in the
back of the head. He sat up more cautiously this time. He
placed his hand on the back of his head when the throbbing
wouldn’t subside and felt the warm ooze of fresh blood.

“Bastard!”
Whoever had hit him on the head had
whopped him a good one. He grabbed the edge of the desk and
pulled himself up. That’s when he saw the blood on his hand,
and the blood on the floor, and a body that looked all too
familiar fading in the moonlight that had slipped through the
window.

“What in bloody hell?” W
as all that he could say as he
watched himself fade away in front of his very own eyes. With
shaking hands he reached for the door that led to the upstairs
hallway. This was his home, yet everything seemed so strange.
Was he dead? He felt for a moment like he was in a foreign
land. When he reached the balcony and peered over he saw the
burnt curtain lying on the floor, the television from the future
against the wall, and he screamed, “Drew!”

Lezetta with her gorgeous flowing hair and glowing
eyes was on Liza like a cat. “I need the ring! You have to
place her back in the circle now and give me that damned
necklace!” She said as Liza had removed the necklace from
around Drew’s neck for safe keeping.

“Over my dead body!” Liza screamed as she dodged a
very angry translucent Lezetta.

 

“Oh my dear one, that can be very easily arranged!”

Liza knew better though. Lezetta was a strong energy,
but she didn’t possess the power that Danny had had. She
knew that she could easily run away and leave Lezetta there
screaming for all eternity but she wasn’t about to leave Drew
there with her. Even though Drew’s body may be going to a
cemetery soon she would be damned if it was going to be that
one.

“Mary Ann! I need your help!” Liza called out to the
poor girl sitting helplessly on the edge of her own tomb.
“Mary Ann, this isn’t the time to be giving up! I could really
use your help right now!”

As Liza tried to make her way back around to Drew
she pleaded and begged with Mary Ann. How could the girl
just sit there with her elbows on her knees like that? Liza was
running out of breath and swore she was making a path in the
grass from running in circles.

She finally made her way back to Drew’s body and
grabbed underneath her arms. “I’m so sorry Drew that I have
to torture your body like this but we got to get the hell out of
Dodge, Sister!”

Lezetta was coming for her again but this time she
didn’t care. She was going to hold her ground the best that she
could. Lezetta was building power the madder she got and she
had a feeling that the dark shadow Lezetta had now manifested
into was going to hurt like a bitch as it was headed straight for
her.

“Mary Ann!” Liza screamed as she closed her eyes to
take the punch.
Instead of a punch though, she felt a cool
breeze just touch her hair, the Celtic necklace that she had been
holding was swiped from her hand and she heard what sounded
like an Irish chanting. She opened her eyes to see a flash of
light slam into the darkness that had been coming towards her
like a bat outof hell… literally she thought.

Just then a strong arm wrapped around her waist and
swung her around. She saw Brendan grab a hold of Drew with
his other arm and wondered how the hell he could move so fast
with the extra two hundred and fifty pounds that he was
dragging.

She looked back in time to see the darkness that had
been darker than the night as well as the beam of light that had
possibly saved her life, vanish into thin air.

“I’ll be back for you, Mary Ann.” She whispered,
“Just hang in there a little longer.”

Justice had come to one of the evil-doers though it cost
Drew her life. Maybe Liza’s idea of justice wasn’t exactly that
after all. Mary Ann was still fighting for a resting soul and
Lezetta still wasn’t burning in hell. Somehow none of this
seemed like justice to her. But it would come. She promised it
silently to Drew. Justice would come.

Chapter 10
The Sun

Brendan laid Drew down carefully in her bed.
He
thought he understood now how Prince Charming must have
felt when he looked down and saw Snow White so beautiful, so
peaceful. He would never hold her, he would never kiss her.
He was finally able to do all of the things that a man could do.
He understood that now. He was a man. He was alive, and he
was going to be alone for the rest of his life.

“Who do I call, Brendan?” Liza asked through her
sobs. “What do I even say?”

All Brendan could do was to stare into Drew’s face.
So many years he had haunted this house his body lay just as
hers did now. Was her soul lost in the cemetery? Was she
drifting inside the house trying to get their attention?
It took
him a long time before he was able to train himself to move
things, to play the piano, to be in two places at once.

Liza’s sobs were killing him. He couldn’t stand it. He
wanted to yell at her and tell her to leave him be. He wanted to
scream! He wanted to run! Instead he took Drew’s hand and
laid his head on her chest.
He froze, eyes wide when he felt
her chest moving up and down.

He sat up slowly, glaring at Liza with such force that it
almost knocked her down.

 

“What?” She said shakily, “If you are about to blame
this on me…”

“Blasted woman! Did you think to check her pulse
before you jumped to the damned conclusion that she was
dead?”

“What?” Liza stuttered then ran towards the bed.

 

“Aren’t you supposed to be a healer or something? Do
your blasted job! Start healing!”

Liza reached down to hold Drew’s wrist. Her pulse
was steady though it seemed a little faint. It was there though.
Drew was alive.

This couldn’t be really happening is all that Drew’s
mind could really muster as she watched the miracle unfold in
front of her. Her kiss had sent Danny straight to hell while
Mary Ann had used the Celtic knot, her Irish tongue, so much
love, and so much anger to send Lezetta’s evil spirit off to God
only knows where. She hoped that where ever it was, Lezetta
deserved it.

“Why do you think that He sent her off in a flash of
white light?” Drew asked Mary Ann as they sat on the ground
under the tree in the cemetery. The moonlight shown down on
Mary Ann’s beautiful green eyes, they shown all of the
emotions that the poor girl was holding inside. Drew saw tears
of joy, of sadness, all of it streamed down her cheeks.

“I don’t know, Miss Drew. Maybe He wanted to have
a talk with her before He sent her to the burning depths of hell
with her evil lover.”

“I’m so sorry Mary Ann. I don’t understand why we
are still stuck here.” Drew said wanting to cry herself.

“I don’t believe that I am stuck here anymore, Miss
Drew.” Mary Ann said. “Now that Lezetta and Danny are
gone, I think that if I really wanted to I could leave the
cemetery. I feel that my place is here though. I feel it calling
me”

“What is calling you, Mary Ann?” Drew asked.

“Lezetta put a curse on me as well.
I was going to be
her body someday. I just have to find that special someone,
just like Brendan found you so that I can leave this place.”

“Oh my God!” Drew gasped. “That is gross!”

“Well, you already had one rotting corpse up there
Drew, what is it to you that there is another one on yer
property?”

“No, I mean eww, they were going to use brother and
sister’s bodies to become physical lovers again? That is sick!”
Drew exclaimed.

Mary Ann couldn’t help but laugh at that. “Drew, I’m
not Brendan and Danny’s blood sister! Their parents adopted
me. My mother was killed during child birth and my father
traveled and couldn’t take care of me. Our parents were great
friends and they took me in as their own.”

“Oh, I’m so sorry. No wonder Lezetta was so jealo
us
of you. She knew that Brendan loved you and that you weren’t
really his family. She wanted to get you out of the picture I
suppose. At least until you was needed again.”

“Aye.” Mary Ann agreed. “She didn’t know that I
would be the one to send her toher maker though.”

 

“I’m so sorry that your life ended so young. At least
you still have a chance though, right?” Drew asked sadly.

“Oh, I will be fine, Love.” Mary Ann said patting
Drew on the knee. You should probably get going now though.
Brendan has waited too many years for you to be making him
so crazy with more wait.” Mary Ann said. “Please do come
and visit me though. I will be here waiting.”

“What do you mean? Where is Brendan?” Drew
asked looking around.

Mary Ann laughed. “He is at the h
ouse, Miss Drew.
He is waiting on you to wake up so that he can tell you again
and again how much he loves you. He is waiting to spend the
rest of your lives together.”

“Oh! Oh my!” Drew stood up then and started to run
but turned back around to give Mary Ann one last hug. “If you
aren’t stuck here, why don’t you come with me? You can stay
in the house with us!”

“I think I will be fine here for now. Get your lives
together, Miss Drew.
Hurry now!
He is waiting for you!
Wake up!”

So much of her life had been spent in a silent misery.
Thinking about the past and what her future could never hold.
She had so many times watched other couples as they would
walk hand in hand together down the French Quarter, in
grocery
stores, even in the art
gallery
as
they looked at
paintings .
Their eyes as well as their body language showed
so much trust in one another. Even Liza and her husband had a
bond that Drew never saw herself sharing with anyone, this
should have made it seem more real to her. Hell, she couldn’t
even tell her own mother that she loved her, how was she
supposed to feel that with a man that she barely knew?

She did feel it though. She felt it in every inch of her
body, in the very depth of her soul. Drew didn’t know how she
had ever made it through life without him. She wanted to stroll
through the park with him.
She wanted to hold his hand as he
held her heart and never let him go. He was her destiny. She
knew that now. And she was going to make the most of every
second that she was blessed with in her life from now on.

Brendan sat watching Drew breath.
He willed her to
open her eyes, but it seemed as though they wouldn’t budge.
They had been through hell together and back. It was time that
they got to share their own piece of heaven.
When Liza crept
up behind him with some terrible smelling concoction he
almost jumped out of his boots. He had been concentrating so
hard on Drew opening her eyes that he didn’t even hear her
come in.

“What is that for?” He asked her.

“It’s just some he
rbal tea. If you can help me sit her up
we may be able to get her to drink it. She needs something in
her system to get her heart pumping and hopefully wake up her
nerves.”

“It smells awful. Something tells me that it isn’t tea at
all, but I will take your word for it.” Brendan replied then
reached behind Drew’s head and back and pulled her up
against the head board.

“It’s just a little something to help get her moving…”
as soon as the cup was under Drew’s nose her head popped up
and her eyes opened wide.
She stared straight into space as if
she were in a trance.

“Drew?” Liza said softly. “Honey can you hear me?”

Drew’s eyes moved to Liza’s face she scanned her as if
trying
to remember
who she
was.
When her
eyes
met
Brendan’s they began to tear up.