Asylum: The Complete Series by Amy Cross

Author:Amy Cross
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Horror
Publisher: Dark Season Books
Published: 2012-10-09T00:00:00+00:00

Jerry

Lakehurst. Today.

Half an hour after Eddie and the other men went down into the basement, there’s still no word from them. I’m all for going in guns blazing, but Nurse Winter says we have to wait and let the guards to their job. She’s very insistent that we don’t disturb them, even though I can’t help worrying that by now they’re all dead and the lab’s been messed up. Nurse Winter seems remarkably calm, and I sit on the sofa in the corner of her office, staring at the photo of Francis Morgan. There’s no denying that it’s him, but none of this makes sense. I know there’s no such thing as ghosts, but it was still this face that stared at me in the basement. It’s really tempting to just accept that what I saw in the basement was some kind of apparition, some kind of specter, but I’m not quite ready to admit that ghosts exist. Not yet. There’s still a part of me that thinks this is gonna turn out to be some kind of huge misunderstanding, and that Eddie is gonna appear any moment, dragging some vagrant out of the elevator.

“Are you okay, Jerry?” Nurse Winter asks, smiling at me as she sits at her desk.

“Yeah,” I reply, though I know she must sense how wired I am. “Can’t you call Eddie on his radio and see how he’s doing?”

“I don’t think that would be a good idea,” she says. “The radio makes a noise, and he might be trying to sneak up on the intruder”.

“I suppose,” I say.

“Don’t worry,” she continues. “I’m sure we’ll get to the bottom of all of this”. She smiles. “If he’s not a ghost, Eddie’ll get him out of there. And if he’s a ghost, well, I guess there’s not much we can do. But you don’t believe in ghosts, do you? So you’ll be fine working down there, even if the rest of us think the basement’s haunted. Won’t you, Jerry?”

I smile weakly. She’s blatantly enjoying this. She’s always goaded me about my refusal to accept that ghosts are real, and now she thinks she’s got me in a position where I’ll have to start believing. But she’s wrong. I’m still absolutely certain that there’s no such thing as ghosts. Somehow, there’s gonna turn out to be a totally rational explanation for all of this.

There’s a knock at the door and Eddie enters, looking a little hot and bothered. He barely acknowledges me, instead heading straight over to Nurse Winter.

“Well?” she asks, smiling. She doesn’t seem too worried.

“We checked everywhere,” Eddie replies. “Every single room down there. We didn’t find any intruder. We didn’t find anything we didn’t already know was down there”.

Nurse Winter turns to me. “Did you hear that, Jerry? Nothing down there”.

“We also checked the perimeter again,” Eddie continues. “There’s only one external door that leads down into the basement, and it’s padlocked. No windows”.

“Are you sure?” she asks him.

“Dead sure”.

“Well,” Nurse Winter says, taking a deep breath, “we have a problem, don’t we?” She’s clearly loving every moment of this.

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