Reborn ghost seeing lady is pampered by her ex husband - Chapter 130

Chapter 130: All nighter……1

It was unusual for the time to clock eight in the night without grandma Mayfair being home. Her absence and that of Phoebe made Edward uncomfortable as soon as he got home from the office and he called her.

“Mother, where are you both?”

“At work, we are busy and we are pulling an all nighter.” she answered and ended the call.

Edward eyes trailed slowly over the phone as he wondered what kind of all nighter was needed at a cafe. Serving coffee and snacks did not need one to work over night. He had never stepped foot into his daughter’s cafe and he figured now was the right moment to do so.

Without bothering to shower or change as he originally planned, he left the house. On the way to the garage, he met his wife that was from doing some house shopping. She was openly surprised to see him leaving with his work briefcase and in the same clothes he had gone to work in that morning.

“Oh, Edward, honey, where are you going? Is there trouble at work?”

“Not my work.” he mumbled.

He opened his car door and threw the brief case back in the back seat. “I just called mother and she said that they will be working all night. I am going to visit Phoebe’s cafe and see what that is all about. You can all start dinner without us.”

He paused before entering the car, walked back and kissed his wife on the forehead.

Jennie held onto his arm, worry expressed in her eyes. “I will go too.”

They handed the shopping bags to a maid and a driver then drove off together. The Mayfair house was left devoid of family members that night with the exception of Ruth who was still acting weak.

Collin was working late, Luke was on the night shift and Andre’s movements were unpredictable as he often slept out late.

When the couple arrived at the cafe they the door locked and no matter how much knocking they did, the door remained closed. Edward had to call Phoebe that came in person to open the door for them.

“Mom, dad.” she was surprised to see them there, standing outside her cafe.

She had been expecting her father but not her mother. Jennie Mayfair wanted nothing to do with ghosts. The simple fact that she was standing outside here was a miracle.

She didn’t open the door wide and blocked their view inside with her body. “What are you guys doing here?”

Edward and Jennie were both taller than Phoebe and so they peeked over her head.

“Your grandmother told us that you are working over night so we came to see what you are up to. What are you doing in there?” Edward was more than curious.

The lights in the cafe were on and the smell of food was escaping through the open door and tickling their nostrils. He was hungry and he definitely wanted a taste of whatever was being cooked.

Phoebe looked inside and she looked at them. “Is there any chance that you guys can just head on back home and let this matter go?”

Both of them shook their heads. She sighed, dropped her hand, stepped aside and reluctantly let them inside. They were met with a view of what was a possible banquet. All the tables in the cafe were filled with food but there was no trace of human customers at the tables.

What they did notice was food vanishing from the tables at the speed of light into thin air. They also heard some growling sounds and Jennie tightened her hold on her husband’s arm.

Edward fastened his pace and he delivered his wife to what he assumed was safety, behind the counter where his mother was busy making drinks that were floating through the air. This, they had seen before in the house when Ruth’s things were being thrown out of the bedroom.

“Mother,” Edward tapped old lady Mayfair on the shoulder.”What is going on?”

She barely looked at him before grabbing Rosette’s ghost seeing glasses and handing them to him.

“Why are you here?” She asked him. “I told you that we are busy. If you are here to talk about Ruth i do not have time. We have a house full of hungry ghosts that happen to be soldiers that served in the Fog country great northern war of 1701 which stopped the expansion of Eagle country.

In our cafe, soldiers, police men, doctors, fire fighters, priests and others who dedicate their lives to the service of others are special clients. We help them whenever they walk in, no questions asked.”

Edward and Jennie stared at old lady Mayfair like she was talking nonsense. The way she was talking, you would think that she had been working in the cafe for many years and not two days.

Edward slipped the glasses over his eyes and he saw them, the ghosts that his mother was talking about. There were hundreds of them squeezed around that tables and on the ground. Some were floating in the air and all of them were drinking or eating. They were not behaving demurely and grabbing food with their bare hands like they had been starving for centuries.

He took off the glasses and handed them to his wife who took one look and turned away, preferring not to see them. She even closed her eyes and made the sign of the cross. Her right hands tightened on the cross around her neck as she murmured a prayer.

Edward did not put on the glasses again and instead pulled two bar stools that were unoccupied for himself and his wife to sit down.

He looked around the cafe and then at his mother that was dumping fruit into the juice processor so unbothered about the ghosts and with a lot of focus. How had she become so comfortable with all this ghost stuff so easily? He and Jennie were still struggling to accept it and they would probably be that way for a long time.

Watching his mother working hard made him feel guilty however. He didn’t want her to overwork herself no matter what the situation was.

“Mother, i can help. What should i do?”

Grandma Mayfair was a little taken back as she expected her son and daughter-in-law to high tail it out of the cafe at the speed of lightning after seeing ghosts.

“You don’t need to stay here if you are uncomfortable Edward.” she told him.

He shook his head. “No, i can help, mother. I want to help.”

She pointed in Phoebe’s direction. Phoebe was sitting in a corner with a laptop and the ghosts whose stomach had been filled were giving her their names and details while explaining their last wishes.

“Go and assist you daughter, her fingers must be killing her right now. These men have so many last wishes and she is taking down information alone.” She pushed the ghost seeing glasses towards him. “If i can handle seeing them for the sake of my granddaughter, so can you. Prove to her that you will be better and more tolerant than those Gabriel beasts. Do not ever forget that she suffered at their hands. She doesn’t celebrate her birthday Edward, she won’t even let me bring it up. She has been wounded greatly and betrayed, as her father, cover her wounds.”

Edward recalled the birthday story and Phoebe being locked in a closet. He clenched his hands and picked up the glasses. He had wounds to heal, his daughter needed to see that he could be relied on.