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insisted Michael, this time avoiding her attempt to flirt. 
    “You guys’ll look into the Sea Hag?” the sheriff assumed.
    “Naturally,” he replied, grabbing Melinda’s arm, promptly departing.
    “Be careful!” Mack ordered. “Don’t want to be collectin’ your bones next,” she mumbled after their disappearing frames. 
    Michael took rushed steps out of the morgue and down the street. Melinda grabbed her brother’s arm, forcing him to stop. 
    “You’re clearly upset over what you saw. Talk to me,” she pleaded. 
    His bit his lip, unease spreading splotches of red across his smooth skin.
    “I didn’t tell Mack everything I saw,” he finally admitted.
    “Why on earth not?”
    “Because,” he started, but stopped. He looked down, shaking his head, as if unable to believe what he was about to say.
    Melinda lifted his chin, making him look her in the eye. “Out with it, Michael. We don’t need two crazies in the house.”
    He inhaled deeply, and upon exhaling let slip out the words, “I saw Mom.”
    “What?” she breathed out in shock. “In the death reading? Just now?”
    “Yes. I saw her clear as day, Melinda. And if I’d told Mack everything, our mother wouldn’t just be dead, she’d also be the number one suspect in a murder investigation.”
     

CHAPTER FOUR
     
    Charlie and William sat in silence thinking over what Michael had just told them. Twice, Charlie started to speak and stopped. Finally, in an uncertain voice he got out what he was trying to say.
    “Our mother shot a man? A living man? Are you absolutely sure, Michael?”
    “You know how my ability works, Charlie. It’s never wrong.”
    Before Charlie and Michael allowed their tempers to flare further, William intervened. “We all know that what Michael saw is truth. Therefore, logic tells us your mother had a very good reason for her actions.” 
    “But a man , William? Demons, other witches, any number of other supernatural creatures, sure. But why this man? Could he be the reason our parents are dead?” A low growl rumbled in Charlie’s throat, and the whiskers lining his face stood to attention, thickening and darkening, giving him a sudden savage disposition.
    “Charlie,” Melinda spoke anxiously. “Cool it!”
    Her eldest brother closed his eyes taking deep breaths to regain his control. “Sorry. Full moon’s really getting to me this time.”
    “Yes, well, Mr. Wolfy needs to stay nice and locked up. When you get agitated you don’t think straight.”
    “I am aware, Sis,” he grumbled, at the same time distressing over the panic in her voice. You have to keep your shit together if not for anything else but Melinda. She’s just starting to get better… of all the times to have a case centered around our parents... what perfect-ass timing! Charlie motioned that he was fine and for them to continue.
    “Nothing in what I saw,” explained Michael, “indicated that this man had anything to do with our parent’s deaths, but we would be stupid not to investigate it further, and regardless, we need to deal with the Sea Hag if she’s still around.”
    Charlie and Melinda nodded in agreement.
    “Any thoughts on where we should start, William?” Michael asked.
    “Only one. We need to visit this underwater cave. That is to say, you need to visit this cave. I of course, would sink to the bottom of the ocean like a stone.”
    “And as much as I would love to join this party,” Melinda spoke in a sarcastic drone, “you know my stance on ocean dives and cave exploring. So not going to happen. I’ll leave this investigation up to you two.”
    “Great,” murmured Michael, his mouth twisting into a smirk. “I get to watch Charlie do the doggy paddle.”
    Charlie ignored the comment. “So which cave are we heading to?”
    “It’s in Bloodsucker Bay. On the northern outlet,” relayed his brother. 
    “Must be why the body wasn’t discovered sooner,” William assumed. “Only the most competent divers