Sixth Sense (A Psychic Crystal Mystery) Read Online Free PDF

“There is no Mr. Psychic.” And probably never would be.
    “Why not? How come a perfectly presentable thirty-something woman like you is not attached?”
    “Gee, you’re generous with the compliments,” Katherine said, brushing back a loose curl from her face. “And I’m not thirty yet. But I’m sure you already knew that. I’m sure you think you know everything there is to know about me.”
    “I’m an investigator. Investigators investigate.” Jack paused, dipping his eyes down to Katherine’s painted toes and then raising them to take in her breasts.
    Her heart stuttered.
    “Anyway, I’m curious to find out what kind of man does it for you.”
    Katherine sighed, lifting her shoulders. “Something about me seems to scare off the men I date. Maybe I should stop predicting they’re not going to get laid.” She glanced at Jack to gauge his reaction. “Most guys are surprised to learn that my head doesn’t spin around on its axis when I go into a trance. That I’m not possessed.”
    “It probably freaks guys out when you tell them you’re a mind reader.”
    “I’m not a mind reader, exactly,” Katherine objected and sat back in her seat, pretending to read her magazine. Why should she reveal all her secrets to this Neanderthal? Sure, she could read moods, like anyone in a serious relationship. It was hard to take a guy at his word, though, when, more often than not, she could intuit what he was really thinking, the good along with the bad. But Jack was an enigma. Was he interested in her or wasn’t he? She couldn’t tell.
    That was probably just one of the reasons she was the biggest loser in the relationship game. Add Beauregard to the growing list of people, including her parents and her former fiancé, who were mystified by Katherine Crystal. Too bad she didn’t come with an operating manual.
    The fact that she could see the future with such horrifying clarity, in such devastating detail, day after day and nightmare after nightmare, meant she could never rest easy and was rarely easy to be around. She accepted that she was different, dateless and lonely, but that didn’t mean she liked it.
    She turned to look at Jack. “I’d give anything to be able to walk on a beach and watch the waves crash, and not see a car crashing around a hazardous curve. To feel the warm sand between my toes instead of the fear on the face of a drowning swimmer.”
    She wiped the tears from her face and closed her eyes, as she recalled those horrific moments. She held her head and rubbed her eyes as she felt another headache coming on.
    Jack looked at her with sympathy in his eyes. His concern seemed genuine. How much should she reveal? Could she take a chance that he was beginning to take her seriously?
    “To see a white gull swooping down for his daily catch, instead of a metal bird falling out of the sky, which is exactly how I ended up in this predicament in the first place.”
    “Well, you’re the one who called the media,” Jack reasoned. “If you hadn’t, you’d still be anonymous, just another poor little rich girl.”
    Katherine held back the urge to slap his face.
    The Ocean Rivers case had been her debut onto the national stage. Now she was hunted by the media. Word of her “paranormal powers” had gone viral. Local police departments around the country wanted to hire her. Politicians wanted her to assess their chances with the voters. Who needed pollsters or public opinion polls when they had the “all-powerful, all-knowing” Katherine Crystal?
    Katherine felt anything but powerful. In fact, she felt like a failure. Even if she got it right and no one listened, it was a matter of life and death. The truth was, she just wanted to be left alone. No one would guess she’d trade all that notoriety for just a few moments of peace. There were no beautiful sunsets in her world, only tragedies in the making.
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    How could Kate be so sure of herself? She may have the whole world fooled, but he knew,