NOVPUB"Actually, more like one of the minions but a big minion. Like one of the devil's children...first children to be specific." Phoebe amended and expanded on what Maureen had shared.
Suddenly, Shark started to realize that he was not swimming in the small pool of crooks anymore. This was a whole new game, and he was not sure he wanted to play. He was not even sure that he wanted the knowledge because now....in everything that he did, he would wonder if he was pissing off the creator of the universe.
"I haven't been to church in two years." Shark muttered. He also thought about all the times he said things like, 'holy shit! holy hell!.....his heart picked up speed up speed just like his breath.
It was no different for Noah. His heart pounding against his rib cage and he placed his hands on his head in confusion. Besides being confused by what they were saying, fear had gnawed at him as concern for his wife multiplied. "We have to go and save her! Please." He begged desperately.
On trembling legs, he stood up, ready to leave immediately. Even though Eliza had rejected Phoebe's help multiple times, Phoebe now had to get involved. She nodded at Maureen and her aunt nodded back.
"That is if she can be saved." Maureen stood, clutching onto her bag.
"What do you mean?" Noah demanded to know frantically.
Phoebe gently pulled on his arm and asked him to calm down. "The thing is Noah; we do not know how far this ghost's grip has taken a hold of your wife. We need to see her and assess the situation to know how to proceed" She kept the answer simple; she did not want to scare him but there was a possibility that this vengeful ghost was not going to willingly give up its host and it would die along with her.
They also had no idea what else was happening with this ghost especially now that Enigma has come into the picture. If the ghost was working with a demon, things did not bode well for Eliza Grant.
They left the office; Phoebe took a couple of croissants and milk with her. Maureen decided that it was not too early to down an espresso martini.
"What?" she asked Phoebe as they were entering the car. "It's coffee." She defended her choice of drink.
"I did not say anything." Phoebe replied. For all she knew, it was liquid courage needed in case they confronted Enigma and fought him.
Rekha was sleepy, as soon as she entered the car, she pulled the hood of a jacket over her head and went to sleep.
The cars tore through the streets to the Coracora town, which was home to the Coracora falls, it was a quiet town where a lot of wealthy ordinary people stayed especially after retirement.
Its clean streets were littered with senior citizens, immigrants, children, tourists and young men and women that attended the large University of Coracora in the town.
"Don't you just love Coracora?" Maureen asked her. 𝘯𝑜𝘷𝘱𝘶𝘣.𝘤𝘰𝑚
Phoebe upper lip curled upwards in a distasteful frown. "Which one...Coracora exclusive or Coracora ghetto. We are passing through the ghetto now. Why would you love it here?"
It was not really a ghetto, but people called it that anyway.
"It's a university town, there is so great food, coffee shops, art..." Maureen started.
"Noise, parties, the emptiness during school breaks, theft...scratch that...crime." Phoebe was speaking from experience as she had once lived in Coracora in her past life. It was before she married David.
The car diverted from the ordinary part of town to the high end one and the beautiful mansions of the rich came into view.
"Welcome to Coracora exclusive." Maureen said with cheer in her voice.
Aside from mansions there was a country club, golf course, yacht club, spas, library, art galleries, private hospitals, private schools. It was quiet place, good for retirement if you had money or wanted to live in peace.
Whistling as they stepped out of the car upon getting to the Grant mansion, Shark could not help but admire the huge yet beautiful house. "Lovely house you got here, no wonder the ghost does not want to leave all this behind, I mean who would." He paused upon Phoebe's glare.
Noah flailed wildly, running to the house in desperate search of his wife. "Eliza? Honey are you home?" He howled like a wounded animal.
"He will hurt himself if he keeps running around like a headless chicken." Maureen commented.
As soon as they entered the house, they started making observations. For a house that big, there were no servants in sight which was odd. People like the Grants who lived in ten-bedroom mansions usually had at least two to three servants. And that was without counting gardeners, pool boys and others.
Phoebe summoned three paper men and instructed them to search for Eliza; the spirit joined in too but none of them found her there.
"She could be at the company but she told me that she was taking the day off so she should have been home." Noah gestured at them to return to the car.
Phoebe stretched her hand to calm him down. "Panicking is not helping anyone Noah, I will find her my way." She told him, laying the central map across the car's bonnet. The locator spell did it's magic of finding Eliza, Noah was right his wife was at the company. "Let us go find her now." She said as she hurriedly entered the car.
In no time, they got to the TK entertainment head offices. Maureen slapped a protection talisman on Noah's back. "We do not know what type of situation we are walking into, better safe than sorry." She warned.
"Wait!" Phoebe clutched onto the minivan door handle like it was the edge of the cliff, her entire weight thrown into resisting him from opening the door. "We cannot go in there; I feel demon presence and from all the dark auras I do not think that we are talking about just one or two." She spoke cautiously.
With Star's energy she could see the darkness that surrounded the building.
With his instincts only focused at saving his wife, Noah's fingers dug into the door frame__veins bulging as he strained to force it open. Until Maureen smacked in on the head from behind
"Damn! For a man his size, he sure does have a strong skull. I wonder what kind of noise it will make after a demon shatters it." She flexed her stinging fingers discreetly.
A shudder ran through Noah as if someone had dumped ice water down his spine. "I am s-sorry, I lost it for a while there." He broke into sobs. "But Eliza must be trapped in her own body watching this ghost destroy her life."
"I just alerted the academy helpline; they will be here any second." Rekha placed her phone back inside the bag.
Phoebe nodded at her. "Good, now Mr. Grant call your wife and tell her to meet you at home, act like it is a matter of life and death."
