Chasing Morgan(4)
Sometimes she sounded like a crackpot, but she enjoyed watching Jack get confused and irritated.
“Relax, Jack. You can bring the horses. The fee you’re thinking of is okay with me.”
“Huh?”
“You’ll need to shore up a few of the fences. I’ve let them go, since I moved in. I’m fine with you taking the cost of the repairs out of the monthly fee, since the improvements will be to my land. I only have one request. If you aren’t the one to come and check on the horses, then I’d like it to be Caleb. I think it will be okay if it’s just the two of you. I’d like it if you or Caleb wanted to stop in and say hello once in a while. But no one else. I don’t like strangers.”
“You don’t think of Caleb and me as strangers?”
“I know a lot about the two of you. For instance, I know you have to get home because you’re expected at Sam’s place for a family dinner. You’ll decorate cupcakes with the children. Sam and Tyler will be home today.”
“Sam won’t be here for another week, and Tyler doesn’t usually come with him. How do you know about them? About dinner?” He took a step toward her. Those all-seeing blue eyes gazed up at him and a soft smile spread on her pretty face. Her hair softly swayed in the breeze like a living thing.
“I didn’t get your name. Who are you?” His tone demanded her answer in no uncertain terms.
“I’m Morgan.”
Everything in him went still. He hadn’t expected this. It all became clear. He finally understood how she knew about he and Jenna, Caleb, the kids, Sam . . . and Tyler.
“You’re Tyler’s Morgan.”
She laughed with a self-deprecating smile. “Tyler’s Morgan,” she said softly. “Tyler wouldn’t claim me to save his life. What is it you guys like to call me? Oh, yeah, the psychic ghost. I have to say, I don’t really care for the nickname. I’m no ghost, as you can see. I don’t usually talk to ghosts either. I know that was your next question.”
Stunned, he stood speechless and a little scared. Psychic, she knew things about all of them. Things Tyler sure as hell hadn’t told her. They hardly talked, and when they did, she only called to offer a clue to one of his cases. Tyler had only seen her once. Several years ago, she’d stopped Tyler in a restaurant and told him to find his sister and saved her life by sending Tyler after her. Since then, they’d only spoken on the phone.
Tyler was obsessed with finding Morgan.
“You and Caleb can’t tell Tyler where I am.”
“How’d you know that’s what I was thinking? Can you read my mind?”
She laughed. “Not really. Not like you think. You’re easy to read. Tyler’s your friend. He’d like nothing better than to find out where I’ve been all this time. He’s frustrated with me.”
“Angry is more like it.”
“Exactly. It isn’t time for us to cross paths. Not yet. We weren’t supposed to meet when we did. His sister should have died in that explosion. I couldn’t let that happen. It would have devastated him.”
“He is close to her,” Jack confirmed. “I can’t imagine losing my sister or brother.”
“She took a path she wasn’t meant to go down. I had to correct it, or Tyler wouldn’t be where he is right now. He wouldn’t have been there to help Sam with Elizabeth. She was a victim of circumstance. She and Sam will have a good life together.”
“You know that?” he asked with skepticism and hope all tied up together.
“They’re meant to be together, like you and Jenna. Cameron will have his dream for a family come true very soon. You and Sam will have a good time watching him stumble through the process. In the end, he’ll make the right decision because she’s the woman intended for him. She’ll already know it. He’ll take some convincing.”
“You know about Cameron, too?” Cameron worked for Jenna at Merrick International. They were all friends and close as family.
She put her hands in the back pockets of her jeans and looked up toward the setting sun. She had all the confidence and certainty she needed. “I know about Tyler’s family.”
“Yes, but how do you know all this?”
She gave him a cocky smile. “Do you want to talk about psychic and paranormal phenomena? We could have a really good debate about how I do the things I do, and how you don’t really believe I’m capable of seeing the past and the future.”
“I don’t know what I believe. I know you’ve helped Tyler and Sam a number of times. They say you’re always right.”