Lost And Found: A Cozy Ghost Mystery (Storage Ghost Mysteries Book 2) by Gillian Larkin Page A

after university and loved it. He’s
much better at business than me.”
    “But
you must be good, you’ve built this whole company,” Grace pointed out.
    “I
enjoyed it. I liked helping people. You should see their faces when we solve
problems together, my job is so satisfying.”
    Laura’s
eyes flickered as if she’d just thought of something else.
    Clive
moved closer and studied her. He turned to Grace and said, “She’s tired of this
business, I can tell, she’s done all that she can with this job.”
    Grace
didn’t doubt the wisdom of Clive’s words but she knew there was something else.
She suspected that Laura needed to feel useful and not in a business way.
Losing her aunt and son had left an emotional hole that work couldn’t fill.
    Grace
said, “Are you going to see David and his wife? I’d love to go to Australia, it
looks beautiful.”
    Laura
gave a laugh but there wasn’t much emotion in it. “He calls me every day to
tell me to go there, not to visit but to live! Can you imagine that? I’d been
in his way, he doesn’t want me there, he’s just saying that.”
    Clive
cried out, “For goodness sake! Of course he wants you there! Why wouldn’t he?”
    Grace
flinched at Clive’s loud voice. It was draining trying to ignore a ghost. She
said to Laura, “I think he does want you there, I know I’d want my mum and dad,
if I could.”
    Grace
stopped to gather her wits, she’d felt the familiar prick of tears as she spoke
about her parents. She couldn’t cry now, she was here to help Laura.
    Laura
shook her head. “I can’t think of a reason why they’d want me.”
    “I
can,” Grace said. “Can you look at the latest photo that David sent you? The
one of him, and I presume, his wife?”
    “Sarah?
Lovely girl, almost like a daughter to me. Yes, it’s here in front of me.”
    Grace
came around to Laura’s side and pointed at the screen. “Sarah’s not looking
straight at the camera, she’s looking slightly off to the distance. A bit like
you were in Clive’s photo.”
    “Oh,
so she is.”
    Grace
moved her finger down. “Look at where her hand is resting.”
    Laura
focused on the image a bit more. She suddenly gasped and her hand flew to her
mouth. “She’s pregnant!”
    “Could
be,” Grace said.
    Laura
started to laugh. “That’s amazing! But why haven’t they told me?”
    “Perhaps
they want to tell you face to face,” Grace suggested.
    A
glow settled on Laura’s face. “A grandma, fancy that.”
    Grace
wasn’t good at being firm but she knew she had to do it for Laura’s sake. “You
can’t be a distant grandma. You’ll have to move there. Sarah will need your
help if the child is anything like David.”
    “No!
No! I can’t do that,” Laura protested.
    Grace
folded her arms and said, “You have to. Your aunt did the same for you. You
can’t be selfish, Laura, think about your family all the way over in Australia.
Surely you can leave work behind. What’s more important?”
    There
was a pause. Laura turned to look up at Grace. Grace couldn’t read the emotion
there.
    Had
she gone too far?
Was Laura going to throw her out of the office?
     

 
    Chapter 18
     
    Laura
gave a slow nod. “You’re right. You’re absolutely right. I have to go, they
need me.”
    Laura
jumped up and gave Grace a fierce hug. “I don’t know how you’ve managed to come
in to my life today but I’m so glad you did! I could have turned into a bitter
old woman with only my own memories for company. But instead I’m going to be a
grandma! In Australia! Oh! There’s so much to sort out.”
    Laura
released her. Grace noted that she looked ten years younger. Clive had noticed
too, he stood at her side with a soppy smile on his face.
    “Don’t
you think you’d better find out if Sarah is pregnant first?” Grace asked.
    “She
is,” Clive said.
    Laura
said, “She is, I can tell from her expression. But if she’s not I’m going
anyway, they need me! And...” she paused,