Chapter Two
By the time I am done, it is mid-afternoon. I finish taking the front shots of the store and head back inside. Miss Midnight is with a client. I saw her walk in – a short, slightly chubby blonde woman, clutching her purse tightly as if it held a secret.
Emily is behind her desk, the window open, when I step inside. She smiles when she sees me.
“All done?”
“Yup. She’s with someone right?”
“Yeah, it’s one of her regulars,” she says, and then disappears from the window and comes out of the hallway into the room. “I’ll tell her you finished though.”
“Great. How did your lesson go?”
“It’s fun. I like learning about the cards and what they could tell me. I really like it here.”
“You could do a reading for Adam,” I remark.
A dark cloud passes over Emily’s face that makes my h
