Beyond the Veil by Rebekah Blackmore

Author:Rebekah Blackmore [Blackmore, Rebekah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Ghosts, Fiction, lesbian, paranormal, romance
ISBN: 9781499681963
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2014-06-22T22:00:00+00:00

10

Mia Rose turned to look at Tessa, her eyes wide and glassy as her jaw dropped. “What do you mean, that’s Lauren?” she asked, her voice tight. She looked back to the mirror before shaking her head. “No, I must be dreaming. My sister is not in love with a hallucination.”

“Uhm, well… she isn’t a hallucination, at least?” Tessa supplied, trying to help the situation. When Mia Rose gave her a bewildered look, the blonde sighed before saying, “Lauren, you can come out now.”

A moment later, Tessa heard someone clear their throat behind her. She turned around to see Lauren standing in the doorway, her arms crossed in front of her chest nervously. She pushed a strand of hair behind her ear. “Hi.”

Mia Rose moved behind Tessa and gripped her biceps tightly as she ducked down, peeking over the girl’s shoulder towards the spirit. “Tessa, who is that?” she whispered, ducking down lower. She flinched when Lauren took a step forward.

Tessa sighed. “Mia Rose, this is Lauren. Lauren, this is my older sister, Mia Rose.” The eldest Calloway ducked ever lower as she dug her fingers into her sister’s arms. Tessa glanced over her shoulder at the girl. “Mia, she isn’t going to hurt you. Want to go and talk alone for a moment?”

When Mia Rose nodded, Lauren disappeared, only to show up down the hall and next to the front door. Tessa smiled sadly at her before turning to the shaking woman and pulling her into her arms. “Hey, I know this is a lot to take in. I’m sorry.”

Mia Rose let out a unhappy snort. “What, the fact that my sister is in love with some beaten-up corpse that is hanging around her house? No, not hard to digest at all.” She rolled her eyes.

Tessa sighed again. “She’s not a corpse… just a ghost. And she’s really not that horrid looking, anymore. When she first appeared, she was completely black and blue, but now, most of the bruises have disappeared.” She shook her head. “Look, Mia, I know that this is hard to understand, but I really love her, all right? I know that we can never have a legitimate relationship, or get married, or have a family, but she makes me happy.”

“How happy can she make you really though, Tess? She isn’t even alive! What the hell are you thinking?”

“I didn’t mean for it to happen… Mitch and I started to see Lauren a few days after we moved in and, while we were freaked at first, we got past it and she became my best friend and, before I knew it, I had fallen in love with her.”

“What’s wrong with you? You do realize that she is dead, right? As in, not coming back, her meat is rotting in the ground, dead!”

“I know that!” Tessa knew that this would be hard for her sister to digest, but why couldn’t she just try to be happy that Tessa had found someone? It was true that their relationship was extremely complicated, and that it was far from conventional.

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