With a wild leap Shark thrust his fist skyward, crowning his victory. "Yes! I knew it ha-ha." He cheered for himself but not for long, his victorious pose collapsed inward as three pairs of judgntal eyes accompanied by frowns turned him into stone.
"Could you cut down on the excitent? This is nothing to celebrate you dummy." Phoebe berated him before shifting her attention to Noah who seed puzzled.
He still had no idea what they were talking about, how it was related to his children or why the detective was in jubilation. Had they found sothing?
"Mr. Grant?" Maureen loudly called his na, jolting him back to his senses.
Noah's eyes darted around. "Vital spark? What is that? And what is this sothing that is feasting on it? How are my children involved? Is it my wife feasting on this vital spark? I am no fool I can see that you are linking all my misfortune to her." He rushed to ask all of the questions that were on his mind.
Maureen gave him a dramatic slap on the back. "You are genius, your wife is the one doing this to you. I like people that catch on very quickly, others would be slow to arrive at this conclusion." She responded with a composed air.
anwhile, Noah winced from what Maureen thought was a light tap on the back. He wondered if she had steel tal in her hands because it felt as if a tallic pipe had struck him.
"Oh, for heaven's sake aunt that is not true!" Phoebe spoke, voice smooth and assuring. "At least not entirely, do not draw quick conclusions before an investigation." She paused and stared at the confused man. "We have to move slowly to get to the right root of the problem."
"What do you an?" Noah's voice was a murmur.
"You asked about the Vital spark, it is the life force or essence of energy that is found in all living beings. Do you understand that?" Phoebe asked before she could continue.
Nodding his head, Noah gestured at Phoebe to continue speaking. He assud that she ant life itself, or the source of life. It did not matter of he understood much, what mattered was if it could be fixed. But he had already concluded that she was right because his children had been drained of life little by little as he watched....helpless.
"Eliza Grant, your wife had a ghost shackled to her by a talisman. She did that because she was aware that the ghost was haunting her. My guess was that you wife did sothing which led to the unfair death of the ghost, so it followed her everywhere, giving her a hard ti.
I guess she went for help and rather than getting rid of the ghost, she was given so other kind of help. I t her when I was working on a case which involved TK entertainnt...." Phoebe paused because Shark interrupted.
"Yes, I was on the case too." He threw in. Noah Grant had promised him a big reward at the end of the day, and he had to prove his worth.
Phoebe cleared her throat and continued. "Anyway, I saw this vengeful ghost and warned her, I told her to contact because I could help but she found her own ans to silence the ghost."
"Ghosts cannot be silenced unless they move on, especially malicious ones." Maureen chipped in.
Phoebe nodded. "The next ti I saw her outside the CPD station I told her that the talisman she had been given was growing weaker by the day and her life was in danger. Once again, I urged her to let help but your wife ignored again. From everything that I have heard, I have co to believe that this ghost was freed when the talisman lost all power and it has now possessed your wife." She inford him of her suspicions.
"What?" Noah leaped to his feet. "What do you an by a ghost is possessing my wife? Where is my wife then? Is she dead?"
"We an your wife's soul has been suppressed and another is taking her body for a joy ride. All those changes that you saw in her, it was not her. She was probably inside that possessed body calling for help but obviously no one could hear her or co to her aid. It was not your wife that ignored your sick children, it was the ghost." Maureen explained further.
Noah's breathing labored. He thought about the tis he had attributed the changes in his wife to bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and any other scientifically proven illness that made sense. Ghosts and possession never crossed his mind.
As he sank back in the chair, he wondered if he could have saved his children if he went to church more often. Maybe then...he would have thought of such a thing and asked for a exorcism in ti. "So, this ghost in her killed our children and wants to kill too?" His eyes widened.
"That is the plan from the look of things. It probably didn't an to kill the children, but it cannot stay inside your wife's body without energy, so it is getting that from humans that are close to it hence you and the children." Maureen told him.
Shark was thinking to himself that the ghost was like a starving cow searching for grass. Noah and his children just happened to be the nearest green patch of grass. How sad!
Phoebe anwhile agreed with Maureen's explanation by nodding. "Also, this ghost does not care about you or your family because it is on a revenge mission. That is the reason for the quick downfall of TK Entertainnt or that was what I thought. I do not understand how the company is suddenly gaining stability...." She paused as a thought crossed her mind. "Unless the ghost has abandoned its mission for revenge and decided to stay in Eliza's body permanently." She shared her thoughts.
"Has anything new happened in the company? Did you sign a new singer or actor? Did you get new investors? Has your wife done sothing different?" Maureen asked curiously.
"There has only been one other abnormal thing that is even more abnormal than Eliza's changes. A gentleman bought most of the company shares, he is the majority shareholder. We thought he would dissolve the company with all that is going on, but he did not. He is not even involved in the day to day running if the company." Noah stared at the ceiling. "His na was uhmmm Salazar, I think? With everything that is going on like my failing health, I did not really care do I do not rember." He said casually.
Phoebe stretched her hand towards him. "Enigma Salazar?" She asked, her heart pounding.
"Yes! That is the man, he seed nice and down to earth." Noah replied.
Maureen extended forward. "Evelyn's Enigma!!! What is it about that man that you did not share with Phoebe?" She asked, sensing trouble already.
"He is a demon." Phoebe announced.
Shark jumped up like his seat caught fire. "A what? There are demons in Citrus. My goodness! First ghosts, then witches and demons. What next the devil himself?" He stumbled out the words.
"Herself, the devil herself." Maureen corrected.
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