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beautiful as you climaxed. I would like to see it again.”
    He took a step toward her and his body seemed to shimmer. Michelle’s eyes widened as he held out a hand. She could see straight through him. She stumbled backward, tripping on a rock and falling flat on her butt. Her impact jarred her and she shut her eyes. She heard Sebastian’s soft, “Forgive me,” and opened her eyes just in time to see him vanish. Her jaw dropped and she forgot about the pain in her backside.
    “What the hell…? Get back here!” She jumped up and ran a circuit of the cove, inspecting all the trees for wires or mirrors, or better yet, for video cameras. If this was the kind of friends Mark had, she didn’t want to have anything to do with them. She had half a mind to take one of the cars in the garage and find this Ducky, tell him exactly what she thought of him and his jokes.
    She’d fallen for it twice now. At least tonight she hadn’t been naked, and hadn’t let him get her off.
    “But you loved it, remember?”
    “Get the hell away from me, Charles. I swear, I will…”
    “He was real. Very real.”
    “Yeah?” She wheeled toward where the image of Charles wavered before her. “You think you’re real, too. But guess what? I created you; you’re make-believe.”
    “Am I?” Charles gave her the smile that drove Hannah crazy. “You don’t believe that. I’ve read interviews you’ve given where you say your characters are real to you.”
    Michelle buried her face in her hands, trying to get hold of her senses. Charles was right, of course. Her characters were real to her, were her friends. That’s why she enjoyed writing, and reading. It helped her to explore new worlds, to have new experiences.
    “Charles?”
    “Yes?”
    She looked over at him. “May I try something?”
    “Yes.”
    Michelle walked to him slowly. When she was within inches she put out her hand, tried to touch his check. She was greeted with nothing but air and her heart rate shot up. “I can’t touch you.”
    “Of course not. I don’t have physical form. But Sebastian did, correct?”
    “Right.”
    “Something tells me you have a little mystery on your hands. I hope you’ll allow me to help as you solve it.”
    Yes, she definitely had a mystery to solve. She thought about asking Marta, but until she had a handle on it, she didn’t want to appear to be crazy. There were two ways to start. The first would be to introduce herself to Ducky, to see if he resembled Sebastian in any way. The second would be to find a library in town, do a little research on the Maddox family, and see what she could learn about Sebastian Maddox.
    * * * *
    She found the main branch of the St. Johns County Library on
Ponce de Leon Boulevard
. As she’d driven into
St. Augustine
, it hit her again how populated
Florida
was. Her home state of
Texas
was huge and you could drive for miles without coming across a city or town. It wasn’t that way here. The little section of land that Mark owned seemed so far away from civilization, it was, in fact, very close to downtown
St. Augustine
. And it hadn’t taken her long to find Ducky’s house before she’d headed into town.
    He was also a rich young man who lived just east of Mark. The young, bikinied woman who’d answered the door told her Ducky was “in
Miami
,” and had been there for a week. “But you can come in and have a beer. We’re having a party tonight.”
    Michelle had graciously declined before heading toward the library. The girl’s information could be taken two ways: one she was lying and Ducky was playing at being Sebastian, thereby punking her. Or two, Charles was right and Sebastian was real.
    “I’m always right.” Charles’ voice had echoed in her mind and made her smile.
    She parked in the city lot and walked to the library. A librarian told her where she could find a book on
St. Johns
County
history, and directed her to where she could request back issues of newspapers and