Truth Is Found by Morgan Kelley

tree, and Julian assumed Beau would eventually do the same thing.
    The odds were that it was genetic.
    “Don’t look so surprised, Julian. I’m not her. I finally found my sister. I won’t leave her side until I’m one of the ghosts talking to her.”
    Julian didn't want any anger between them. This was Tori’s brother, and she’d accepted Justin without judging him. He wanted to do the same.
    “Beau,” he began.
    He didn't give him time to apologize. “I gotta go. I have a mess to help clean up, and I want to wash these cuts. Who the hell knows what I’ll get? Maybe there’s some ghost rabies, and I’ll start frothing at the mouth and talking in tongues.”
    Tori laughed when he winked at her. “I love you, Beau.”
    “Sis, I love you too. I got your back. Hooah!”
    She repeated it to him. It was something soldiers did to prove they were in for the long haul. It looked like she had quite the team keeping her safe.
    It was nice.
    Together, they watched him leave.
    “Well, this day is going downhill fast. I may need that drink before too long,” Tori said, sitting on the bed.
    Julian was right beside her, holding her hand. “Okay, tell me what you know, and we’re going to go from there. I may not have been a soldier, but I’ve got your back too, Tori.”
    She was well aware. Julian was her best friend in the whole world.
    “All I know is they had to be violent deaths. The way they were screaming, they wanted my attention.” She got quiet. “They suffered, Jules. However they went, it wasn’t a good way to die. That’s what I do know.”
    Her husband wasn’t happy to hear that. It made him nervous to think the same thing could happen to her. Instead of commenting, he did what he did best.
    Julian began making notes on his phone. “What else?”
    “They looked about twelve. I didn't see them for long, but when I could get a good look, they were still young.”
    Julian made more notes. “How were they dressed?”
    She thought about it. “I don’t know. Everything went by so fast, and it was like looking through a cloudy sheet of glass.”
    He knew who would know.
    “Bethany, did they die a long time ago?” he asked, still weirded out by this system they set up, but he was going to use it to ensure his wife was safe.
    They listened, and there were two knocks.
    “In the last twenty years?” he asked next.
    There was one knock.
    Julian tried not to make a big deal about the indentation on the bed beside him. It was moving closer.
    Oh, it was freaking him the hell out, but he’d try and let it go. How had his life gotten so weird?
    Now he remembered. He opened his own damn business, and this was the outcome.
    “Julian?” Tori said, noticing he wasn’t talking.
    “Sorry, I was processing it all.”
    “Bethany,” she said, knowing what had him reacting. She could hear her laughter. “Don’t torment him, or I will get that priest and holy water.”
    Immediately, the indentation moved away from him.
    It was good to see that her threats had some weight. Tori didn't know if they’d work, but Bethany seemed to think so. That was good enough for her.
    “Thank you,” he said, going back to what he was doing before Bethany moved in. “Okay, so we know they didn't die that long ago. Hopefully, this gives us a jumping off point. We’ll start with that and run with it. We might get lucky.”
    Tori listened to him.
    There was buzzing in her ears, and it likely meant that Bethany was amused that he was trying to communicate with her. It gave Tori hope that they could pull this off. Julian was trying, and she had to give him credit for that.
    “What’s next?”
    He knew what he wanted, but it would take a phone call. “I think we should get some help with this one.”
    She was good with that. “Research?”
    “Yep.”
    He pulled out his phone and dialed his office. When Lena answered, he asked to be put through to Christina and Kane. If there were two people, who excelled at digging up dirt, it