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“What do you mean he’s trying to marry you off?”
    The waiter came and took their orders and menus, leaving them alone in the surprisingly cozy and mostly deserted patio. Nahia ducked her head, running her fingers through her shiny black tresses. “Do you think it was an accident that he was suddenly unavailable to ghost hunt with me? He’s damn near professional in his matchmaking skills.”
    Nico felt himself blanch at her statement. He thought about his friend, the guy who sat at the desk next to him, had invited him to be in his wedding, happy, jovial, and he kinda wanted to choke him. Not that he minded the results in any way, but he felt like he’d been played. “Damn.”
    She waved off his perturbation with a graceful flick of her hand. “Ignore it. I always do.” The look she gave him, the candle light flickering in her dark eyes, made him feel like she could see every secret he had. And those she didn’t know yet, he was more than happy to confess to. “Why are you here?”
    He was a bit taken aback by the direct question and the sudden change of topic, and sought to clarify before he answered. The revelation that they’d been set up still had him reeling a bit. “Um…philosophically? Physically? I’m not quite sure what it is you’re asking.”
    She smiled and dropped her gaze to her lap with pinkened cheeks. “I meant, here. Your family’s out east, your friends. Indianapolis just seems like an odd choice.”
    He blew out a breath, relieved that her question was so simple to answer. “I like it here. I moved here to go to college, and it kinda grew on me. I still go back to the old neighborhood to visit, but this is home to me.”
    Nahia finished her martini and tossed her hair back from her shoulder. “I get that. I guess being from here, I can’t imagine doing it voluntarily. Where’d you go to school?”
    “BS and MS from IUPUI. I think the reason I tacked on the extra three years was because I liked the first four so much.”
    When she laughed at his lame joke, he knew that even if the romantic aspect of this relationship didn’t work out, he would keep her in his life. “I went there for a business degree. I keep toying with the idea of getting my MBA, but I haven’t made up my mind yet one way or the other.” Before he could ask her why not, her eyes suddenly brightened and she reached for her purse. “I have something for you, I just remembered!”
    “Okay?” He was still fairly dumbfounded at the conversational turns she took, like she was on two wheels and racing motocross.
    After pulling a small tablet from her purse, she turned it on and moved her chair so that they were, again, shoulder to shoulder. He liked how that turned out last time, so he was hopeful.
    She set it on the table between them, quickly opening applications. “Yeah, I went through the stuff from the other night. Thought you might be interested in my findings.”
    “Oh, hell yes.” The weirdness of the other night was definitely worth getting to meet her, but her findings would count as a bonus. It was the scientist in him.
    Nahia snickered at his quick agreement and pulled up several pictures, going through and explaining what was in them, the lighting and other pertinent scientific stuff. Nico didn’t care though, because the first one he saw from their sojourn to the kitchen with the strange footsteps and creepy feelings, had an image he was sure would be burned into his soul. Full-bodied if you didn’t count the legs, a man, middle-aged, white, in a dress shirt of some kind, and a baleful glare straight into the camera. If he’d seen it anywhere else, if he hadn’t been there, he would have never believed… “Holy Christ. Are you serious?”
    She nodded vigorously. “Oh yeah, and there is more, so much more.” She proceeded to run through video of an inexplicable mist that walked in front of the camera accompanied by footsteps, more pictures, and finally the audio.
    “I know you’re here. I