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Chapter 6
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2020-10-18 03:56:17More than a week had passed since Peter's funeral and Rachel was preparing for her first day back at work. Buck had graciously given her some time off and she had to admit, she was excited to get back there. Sitting around the house wasn't her style. And now she had so much more to think about other than crossing over spirits. With Peter gone, she would have to clock up major overtime and double shifts, to make ends meet. He'd left her with nothing, not even an insurance policy to cover the tough times ahead. If only she never met him!
She considered selling some of the antiques her late Aunt Tilly had left her and there were a few nice pieces of jewellery she could pawn too. Her wedding ring was at the top of the list. Hell, she'd paid for it herself, so she could do whatever she wanted with it.
She even considered selling the house, but that would mean one of two things. Move in with Becca or move in with her mother and neither was a viable option. Rachel loved her own space and she would rather work herself into a coma to keep a roof over her head, than accept charity from her family.
She unplugged the iron, holding up the crisply ironed burgundy dress and beige apron, which comprised her uniform. She'd worked at Buck's since high school, and a thought went through her head. Perhaps it was time to move on, maybe find an office job that offered a more stable income. She knew her way around a computer and her typing skills weren't half bad.
And then there was still the matter of the mysterious message given to her by the ghost boy. He hadn't appeared to her since that night, which was memorable for so much more than just his ominous message, of a vengeful Sister Evangeline.
That was the night she met Galen. She smiled.
In the days since then, she'd considered going up there again, under the guise of having a spirit to cross over, but realized halfway through her fantasy, such a ruse would be an epic fail. He was a werewolf, and seeing a ghost would be second nature to him. He was just so intriguing, and she wouldn't mind getting to know him some more. Which was weird in its own right, her sum total of experience with men, came down to Peter. He'd been her first and only and she wondered if it would be easy to open up her heart to someone else.
It wasn’t that she suffered from heart ache. It was more in pieces. Peter made her think she was nothing and she could do nothing. Taking a deep breath she felt a bit of pride in the way she’d been able to handle things on her own. When she cashed her first pay check the other day she stared at the money and laughed. She’d never had a bit of money, Peter had taken it all.
It was 7:30 when she walked into the diner and found Buck mulling over the books. They didn't usually open until 8 and she was struck by the worried look on his face.
"Business has been slow for a while now,"Buck told her. "Don't know what we can do to pull in more paying folk."
Rachel took the seat opposite the grey-haired man, who had been like a father to her for most of her life. Her dad passed on when she was fifteen. Buck, an old friend of her parents, had effortlessly stepped in for both her and Becca, trying to fill some of the void left by their dad. Secretly, they'd always suspected Buck had a thing for their mom, but either they were wrong, or he was just too shy to say it.
"Schools are closing soon,"she said trying to sound hopeful. "Then we'll be overrun by drunken, oversexed teens with nothing better to do."
Buck laughed. "Maybe you're right, Rachel. But if things go on like this, I might have to call it a day. "
She hoped it wouldn’t come to that. A while later when she turned the sign on the door to 'Open'. She needed this job, now, more than ever.
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