The words hit her like a thunderclap. Maureen gripped the edge of the chair to steady herself. Shock and hope warred within her, disbelief soon joined them, and it led to a dance of conflicting emotions inside of her. Maureen's breath shattered on its way out, it caught in her throat, nearly choking her.
Of all the possibilities that she had come up with to explain Phoebe's obsession with Cillian's death, this was not one of them. This was like pulling a rabbit out of a hat!!
Maureen could not believe it, her mind simply refused to accept it. Her little niece truly had a wild imagination or maybe it was being around ghosts so much that had her mind thinking up crazy things. She had looked into Phoebe's past and discovered that Phoebe had spent two weeks under psych hold after she woke up from a short coma. This was after she fell into the lake while working a part time job as a tour guide.
Maybe that brief coma had affected Phoebe in some ways they were not aware of.
