Hacienda Moon (The Path Seekers) by Kasonndra Leigh Read Free Book Online

the psychic. A crying woman had always been his weakness, though. And he wasn’t one of those hard asses that made a female cry and then left her standing there holding on to his emotional bag.
     
    “Everybody hates me: my ex, my brother, you. It’s because I’m cursed. And so is that little pretty witch you keep on ogling like a dog in heat.” She lowered her head against his chest. The people sitting at the patio tables started heading back inside the club.
     
    “Stop acting this way. Virgil doesn’t hate you. He’d be hurt if he heard you talking about him like that,” Eric said, feeling both disgusted and sympathetic.
     
    Abby gave him a hard look before she said, “Are you kidding me? He wants me dead. You don’t know my brother. Only person you remember is the boy who helped you cheat on Trig tests. Times have changed, Mr. Stuck-up Fontalvo. You left me with the demons lurking by my door.”
     
    “What are you talking about?” Eric asked sharply.
     
    She scoffed, straightened up tall, and rolled her eyes. “You figure it out. Best do it quick, too;  before they put your little witch up on the stake.” On that note, Abby straightened up tall and walked through the doorway.
     
    Purposely waiting for Abby to make distance, Eric rushed back through the doors. Scanning the tables where the woman had sat earlier, he instead, found an older couple. He was too late, the story of his life.
     
     
     
     
     
     
    5
     
     
    The next evening, Tandie drove to Brunswick Town, Bolivia’s historic county seat. She was still shaken by the previous night’s events. The setting sun created shadows that stretched across the road like creatures from a horror movie. She still needed to find some Stop Leak to fix her plumbing issues, and there was no Frieda around tonight to thwart her plans.
     
    The Abby woman’s accusations cut her to the core. People around here feared the strange and odd. She had already sensed that. But Abby had accused her of having a witch’s mark. What could it mean that both women saw the ship in the water? Even more strange, how did Abby even know she’d seen it? The woman obviously had issues. But if Tandie had a boyfriend that looked like the guy from the airport, then she would probably act all psycho in the head about him too.
     
    The darkening streets started to look the same. There weren’t too many streetlights to light the way, either. “It’s definitely going to take some time to get used to the no-streetlights thing.”
     
    Tandie turned onto Brunswick Town’s Danford Road and passed several deserted stores. After a few more miles, she began to feel the weariness associated with being in a strange town. She’d driven out too far without a map or even a MapQuest printout; and her cell phone’s signal had faded. The lakes became larger and the scenery merged together as she drove around the small town in what felt like a complete circle. After passing the sign reading Boiling Springs Lake for a second time, Tandie realized she’d gotten herself totally turned around.
     
    “Okay, city girl. Just how do you get lost in trees when you’re used to skyscrapers?” Tandie eased her metallic blue Camaro to a stop at the beginning of her fourth lap around Danford Road.
     
    This time an old store with the lights still on came into view. She eased the car to a stop and parked across the street from the weathered building. The sign on top of the building had the name Catsburg on it. The structure was two stories high with chipped brown paint covering the outside. A faded Coca Cola mural beside the entrance was highlighted by the streetlights. The windows on the second level were completely dark, giving Tandie a strong sense of someone watching her.
     
    She inhaled, held her breath, and stayed in her car. The store appeared old like it was built about the same time as Chelby Rose, but with a few modern updates. The brown wood siding and tattered metal roof along with the