Beguiled by A.J. Llewellyn

Author:A.J. Llewellyn [Llewellyn, A.J.]
Language: nld
Format: epub
Tags: erotic MM, Romance MM
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

paid no attention to what was going on around me. On my knees now, I rocked back and forth, Isinging a song in Japanese, Minna de nakayoku, tabe ni koi…

“What is that?” Sammy asked.

“I have no idea.”Tears flowed down my cheeks and from inside my soul a girlish voice uttered, The bird song. I looked up to see Kimo staring at me with worry.

“Lopaka…you need to come back to me now.

Tell her it’s time to take a rest.”

Hato pop po mame ya hoshii ka…

Kimo’s voice, his presence filled my head.

You’re here! I was so happy to have him back inside my mind again.

I’m here, my love. He took my hand and led me out of the cave and the sad, weeping girl creature recoiled. The awful singing stopped.

“Thank God for that,” Sammy snapped.

Kimo brought me back out of my head.

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Maile looked terrified. “Wha…what was that?

What’s going on? What happened to his face?”

She pointed at me with a wobbly finger and with a shout of panic, stumbled over her own feet as she bolted back through the forest, batting at tree branches in her haste to get away from us.

“What’s the matter with her?” I wondered, then glanced down at my hands. They were not my hands. They belonged to the pale, slender Japanese girl. Only I had scratch marks all over my arms and fingers. My hands were bloodied and my fingernails broken.

I saw snatches of her violent ending then.

“She fought for her life.” The words were out of my mouth before I could even make the memories stop. The obake obon dancer screamed inside my soul, Stop. Stop hurting me. Please don’t hurt me.

Mama! Kimo held me, to make me stop rocking and I felt a sense of peace envelop me for the first time since we’d found the gravestones.

“What is happening to me, Kimo?” I hated the pain inside me, the inconsolable grief. It tore at me, leaving me breathless and agonized.

“She’s becoming stronger. She’s home now. She wants to be with her family.”

“These were houses. There were three of them.”

Papa Nui pointed to what looked like foundation stones.

Yes.

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“She’s saying yes, Kimo.”

He nodded. “She’s speaking aloud.”

I nudged him. We lived in that house. I pointed to the one closest to the two gravestones. My fingers shook. I was starting to get more glimpses of the murder now…

“Lopaka, don’t.”

I forced the ugly thoughts from my mind,

trying to concentrate on what my father-in-law was saying.

“Can you remember who else lived here? What about in this house?” Papa Nui pointed to a distant slope and I gasped.

“The Takayamas.” I bent my head and cried.

“He…hurt me.”

The men were silent for a moment.

“So the man of that house hurt our little obake and then lived right next door to her family while they went through hell thinking their daughter had left them.” Kimo sounded very angry.

“They must have been here a long time ago.”

Papa Nui crouched down on the ground. “These graves are made of cloud stone and it hasn’t been in use in the islands since about 1920.

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