Reborn ghost seeing lady is pampered by her ex husband - Chapter 54

Chapter 54: Ghost catchers are not welcome.

For a while, everyone just remained silent, fixating on their coffee and snacks because they were all hungry. There were no new clients in the cafe because a closed sign had been put up. Phoebe didn’t want any human client for now and the ghosts, they could also wait.

When they were finished, Rosette cleared the table. Phoebe was thinking about getting up to leave when Andre said something which made her stop.

“Are you really a ghost seer or something like that? Can you do one of your little tricks, i could use them in one of my movies” He leaned forward and narrowed his gaze which was upon her.

[Just when i was beginning to like him.] she thought.

Andre gasped and jumped up, pointing at Phoebe’s face.

“What was that?”

Unaware that he had seen her thoughts, she gave him a confused look.

“What?”

Andre looked at Luke and David and they were curious but only because of him, not her.

“Did you guys not see it?”

“What?” They responded together?

“She…her….she…” he huffed and sat down. “Did you really not see it?” he asked them.

“Have you seen a ghost in here? If you have, don’t be afraid. They won’t hurt you, they are here as clients looking for help. Some of them are even more afraid of you than you are of them.”

Andre shook his head. “No…”

The door of the cafe was suddenly flung open, banging against the wall and startling everyone. Andre even jumped up, slightly terrified.

None of the humans saw the two ghosts which came floating inside quickly, shouting for help. They all did see the human man who entered the cafe, however. He was dressed in a yellow jacket with a cap on his head and he looked like a delivery man but he didn’t have anything he was delivering.

“We are closed.” Rosette shouted from behind the counter.

The man didn’t respond but he pulled a short silver rod out of his pocket. The head of the rod was surrounded by small golden bells and red threads.

“Ghost catcher.” Connie squealed.

She hid behind Phoebe who stood up the moment she heard the words ghost catcher. There were three ghost clients in the cafe and they hurried to hide behind the counter where Rosette was.

“That’s Amon, the ghost catcher.”

When Phoebe stood up, the air became charged and everyone could sense that something was wrong. It was like that moment just before a sudden fight when everyone was tense about what was going to happen next.

David touched Phoebe’s hand but she shrugged his hand away and kept her eyes on the man.

“If you move your hand Amon and ring those bells even once in here, i will cut it off.” Phoebe said coldly.

The ghost catcher whose face was hidden tilted his face and looked at her.

“Two ghosts just run in here, a man and a child. All i am seeking is them and i will….”

She raised her arm, holding her hand out to stop him. “Ghost catchers are not welcome in my shop, this is a sanctuary for ghosts looking for a way to move on, leave before i become angry.”

“Those two ghosts have been living with a human woman and playing house. She is almost at death’s door because the man has been feeding off her energy. He is practically an evil spirit.”

Phoebe pointed up to the ceiling of the cafe.

“Inside and outside, i have active talismans and no evil spirit can come into my shop.”

Amon chuckled. “You insist on protecting them.”

“I am not a protector, i am just a lowly shaman that offers help to stranded ghosts. You are a ghost catcher that will shred them into many pieces and send them to purgatory. You don’t care to hear their side of the story and understand why they are stuck.”

“The dead have no story to tell.” He answered.

“You are wrong.” Phoebe answered strongly. “The ones that died an unfair death have a story to tell. The ones who want to attone, the ones who want some simple wishes fulfilled and…”

“Life is for the living.” Amon jumped in. “When you die, your story is over. Those two are criminals, a human and a ghost cannot live together as a family.”

“That is your opinion.” Phoebe answered calmly.

Amon sneered and raised his hand out of the blue with the intention of shaking the bell. It was a weapon that affected ghosts, taking them off balance and then sucking them inside. It was a prison of sorts.

Before his hand could come down, it was stopped by none other than David. Nobody had even seen him moving or reach the ghost catcher.

David gripped Amon’s hand tightly with force like it was his intention to break it.

“She said, don’t shake the damn bell.”

The door of the cafe opened and a pale woman that looked confused run inside. She had on only a single purple shoe and she was crying.

Phoebe heard the little ghost which had run inside with the man call out mother and she realized that this was the woman the ghost catcher was talking out.

“You must be the one that has been living with two ghosts.” she said.

The woman nodded and looked around inside. She had a charm on her hand, one that Phoebe was not familiar with.

“Husband, have you seen my husband and child?” she asked in a frightened voice.

Phoebe used her head to gesture that they were inside, at the back. “I will advise you to say goodbye now because they cannot hide in my cafe forever. The ghost catcher will not let them go, so, if you want to save them, let them go.”

The woman fell to the ground and started crying.

“I can’t, i can’t let them go.”

In a stern voice, Phoebe asked her, “Are you so selfish that you will condemn your child to purgatory? That’s where the ghost catcher is going to send them. They will be doomed to eternal suffering with no hope of reincarnation. Get your head on straight and think like a mother. Protect your child to the very end, get up now and say goodbye.”

She practically shouted a command which got the woman to move. Rosette was on hand to help and she gave the woman ghost seeing glasses.

It was a rushed goodbye, and the two ghosts moved on very quickly just as Phoebe had expected. She had been counting on the fact that the woman was a mother and all mothers protected their children.

“You can let him go now.” Phoebe told David.

Scoffing, David let go of Amon. The ghost catcher still shook his bells, because there were other ghosts in the cafe that he had seen but he didn’t get anything.

Instead, and invisible energy from the talismans on the ceiling was gathered and it was shot at Amon, sending him flying back.

“I told you, ghost catchers are not welcome here.” Phoebe reminded him.

The ghost catcher stood up, laughed and wiped away blood from the side of his mouth. He looked at Phoebe and laughed with an air of mystery.

“You are supposed to be a ghost catcher and yet you work in the opposite direction. Are you sure that you are one of us?”

She shook her head and wagged her finger.

“In this world, i am the exception, the only exception.”