Ghost Of Reach Novels & Stories

Ghost simply got the job done. My jaw tightened. “The timing…” Nico nodded his head before I even finished the sentence. “That’s exactly what caught my attention.” Ghost had disappeared for nearly two weeks. During that same time, my security firm detected an attempted breach that nearly got through. Then Ghost vanished. Now Ghost was back. Ash growled. “That isn’t a coincidence.” No… It wasn’t. Nico leaned closer to the keyboard, his fingers moving quickly across the keys. “I might be wrong,” he said, “but if I had to bet…” He pointed toward the monitor. “I’d say Ghost took the contract job.”

By the time Richard arrived, the funeral was almost over. Everyone who had come to say goodbye was gone. Only I remained. I wanted a little more time with Chloe. She'd always been clingy. And she was afraid of the dark. "Richard, see? I told you Selena was lying. If this were really a funeral, why is nobody here? This is obviously another stunt to get you to come home." Grace's voice cut through the silence. Richard's face darkened.

But your mother's about to die—I know you'll show up. Her words jolted me back to reality. I pressed a hand to my chest, where my heart ached with a dull, numbing pain. How I wished I could tell her myself. That I've been here all along. It's just that... I've been dead for four years.

With a click, the clasp came undone, and the pendant fell to the floor. In a flash, Zoe’s eyes widened. She grabbed my collar like a madwoman. “Y-You… You didn’t switch fates? You lied to me?!” I looked at her in surprise. “What are you talking about?” Miles suddenly exclaimed, “Ow, Maisie. My neck feels itchy.” He pulled down his collar, exposing his collarbone, and clearly revealed who was actually wearing the demonic fate-swapping lock.

"She talked about you. In the letter she left me. She said you were going to be the one who made sense of all of it. She did not know what that would look like. She just believed it." She left. I looked at the network map still displaying on Ghost's device. They had left it on the table deliberately. I thought about my mother mapping the edge of something she could not reach the center of. Rem's alert system fired at two in the afternoon. The full perimeter alarm. Every access point simultaneously. "Ghost is in the system." Rem's voice was very tight. "Not probing this time. Full penetration." "Lock it down." "I cannot lock it down. They are inside the lockdown mechanism."

The lines between hate and love blurred, forcing her to confront the complexities of her own emotions. As the silence lingered, Florida and Beta found themselves caught in a delicate dance—a dance of revelations and unspoken truths, where past wounds collided with unexpected connections. In this pivotal moment, Florida's journey of revenge took an unforeseen turn, opening a path to rediscovering the depths of her own heart and the possibility of forgiveness.

It was displayed. My chest tightened as I lifted it with a gloved hand. The scent hit immediately, chemical, sharp, layered with something metallic underneath. Chlorine and cold steel. A smell I had not encountered in years but recognized all the same. It was the same ghost note that had clung to the air the night my parents died. This was not chaos. It was not a fight gone wrong or a rogue passing through. This was intent. Someone had gotten close enough to Owen to inject him, or had taken him elsewhere and left this behind as a message. Either option required control, preparation, and knowledge of what we were.

I call ghost, he got more than one skill, and opening closed-door virtual and real ones are one of his many skills. He uses his key locks tools and messes with the door for a bit until it opens. Finally, I walk down with ghost behind me, I find a small girl laying naked on the floor. She's thin, too thin, her blond hair match mine only hers is dirty and matted on her head. Her blue eyes are hardly open, I can see bruises all over her fragile body. Taking off my shirt I cover her quickly and pick her up leaving this hell behind. "You're safe now baby sister" I whisper in her ears she closes her eyes letting darkness take her.

The Reach had been *polite* too—guiding paths widening underfoot, sigils pulsing curious welcomes—right up until the orb inverted reality and the whispers bared teeth. “The Reach pulled the same trick,” I said, crouching fluidly in front of her, close enough that her heat washed over me like a hearth's embrace, chasing the chill. Our knees brushed, bond sparking faint violet arcs that danced harmlessly between us. “Subtle probes, visions disguised as gifts. Polite, until it tested if I'd shatter or stabilize. You think the hunger's mimicking?”

“Scarlett… don’t let him win.” I nodded, swallowing hard, but I didn’t answer. I couldn’t. The weight of her words pressed into me like stone. Outside, the black sedan waited, unmarked and humming. Reilly climbed in with us, driving through silent streets, the city sleeping under a blanket of fog. When we arrived at Ghost Harbor, the air was sharp with salt and cold. The docks stretched ahead, creaking under the wind. A few lights flickered, casting long shadows that danced across the water like wraiths.