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clients than he did.
    “A semi. And she didn’t suffer any.” He nodded. She’d told him that as well. “I’m sorry, son. I’m sorrier than I can ever tell you.”
    Steele nodded and rolled to his side away from the man. His entire life was ruined. Everything, all the people in his life, were going to leave him because of this curse. When someone stepped in front of him, another ghost, he closed his eyes. He was never going to help them again. Not ever.
    Steele Bennett was going to go on with his life as if none of them existed. As of right now, he was out of the ghost helping business. He knew as surely as he was laying there that the chances of this really happening were slim to none. He’d made a promise and for his sister, he would have to keep it.

Chapter 1
     
    Twelve years later.
    Kari Briggs watched the two men as they stood talking. She wasn’t going to say anything to anyone this time. She didn’t care what they did or who they did it to. She was sick of people. Turning her back to them, she wiped down the already spotless bar and continued her way down it until she was nearest the door.
    “Beer.” She nodded once to the man and left her rag on the table as she made her way to the tap. She filled a mug and moved to take it to him when the men at the other end of the bar started shouting. Here it came. She looked at the man in front of her as she held his beer, just short of handing it to him.
    “Run.” He looked at her for all of a second before he turned and left the bar. She had no idea why that pissed her off. As soon as the door closed behind him, she turned back to the other end of the bar while her cat shifted over her skin to let her know that she was there if needed. Lifting the small part of the bar that allowed her to go into the bar proper, she stood near the men.
    “Take it out of here, boys.” The bigger of the two men turned to cock a brow at her. She hated when men did that. It made her feel like they were saying, “are you kidding me?” But she nodded at him and pointed to the door. “Take whatever you’re doing out of my bar. I don’t need to mop up any blood tonight. I’ve got enough shit to do without that too.”
    “We’re not going to hurt anybody. We just wanted to talk to some guy. We have no intentions of drawing blood.” She knew as well as they did that was a lie. The door behind her opened again, but she didn’t turn. “We just wanted to have a nice conversation. Then we’ll leave here. You just go on back to your job there and we’ll do ours.”
    “I wasn’t talking about you drawing blood. I was telling you that I was going to do it. You keep fucking around and I’m going to hurt you bad. And I’m not going to tell you again to take that and yourselves out of here.” The guy closest to her nodded but didn’t move. Her cat, never really stable anyway, danced along her skin. The man must have seen something because he took a step back. But dumbass number two drew his gun. When she stepped back, it was to come up against a hard something, and it wasn’t a wall. Then hands as big as her head were wrapped around her upper arms.
    “The lady asked you to take it outside.” She glanced around and up. Way up. The guy had to be at least six foot, ten inches. Kari felt his heat and her cat seemed to purr and stretch. “I’m suggesting that you do as she asked and no one has to get hurt.”
    “You and the little woman there going to make us? Or do you have a back-up plan that has a bunch of others helping you out?” She heard a shift in the seats, chairs being scraped back, and the creak of the floor as something…or someone…heavy stood up. The two men in front of her took several steps back, and she wanted to laugh. “Okay. No harm, no foul. We’re leaving. But if this is the way she treats her customers, we won’t be coming back.”
    “Good.” When she finally found her tongue, she felt stupid for opening her mouth. But she had to take control