Black Moon Rising: A BWWM Paranormal Romance (Paranormal Hunters Book 2) by Mila Nicks

Author:Mila Nicks [Nicks, Mila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

The early morning sky was pale and gray as Aiden and Selene snuck out of the Mhoon Hotel. Aiden loaded their day’s worth of supplies—a mix of snacks and investigative equipment—into the back of the van and slid behind the wheel. Today the old but reliable caravan needed to take them seventy miles west into a town called Tinsley.

Aiden stifled a yawn and started the engine. They had stayed up most of the night researching the case. Eventually they both nodded off into a fitful sleep. Normally a sound sleeper, he woke every other hour, a nasty concoction of dread and fear swirling in his stomach.

Where to even begin? Cara had texted him and mentioned Mom had moved into her apartment until the divorce finalized and she left for Ireland. Dad hadn’t answered any of his texts or calls. Even his voice mail box was full. Aiden no longer had his best friend, Eddie, to vent to, and every time he opened his mouth to share with Selene, a pang of guilt hit him. She was dealing with her own issues. How could he put his on her?

Something was amiss. It was what kept him up at night more than anything. The fear he would wake and Selene would be gone; she would have wandered outside in another hallucination about the moon, or a lunar ritual gone bad. Then there was the night she had been in a deep sleep she wouldn’t wake from. The next morning she had been in a serene mood, but none of it sat right with him.

“Are we ready?” Selene asked.

The question drew him from his thoughts. He blinked as another puff of heat from the vents blew into his face. He had zoned out sitting in the driver’s seat, waiting for the van to heat up. Selene was buckled in and staring at him. He cleared his throat and gave a nod.

“Right. I guess I’m more tired than I thought,” he half fibbed, gripping the steering wheel and pulling away from the curb.

“The more I think about Mrs. Poe’s journal entry, the less interested I am in meeting Mr. Poe,” said Selene with an unenthused sigh.

“The entry was brutal.”

“What do you think she meant when she said he couldn’t accept what she was?”

Aiden’s brow wrinkled in a deep line and he cut a darting glance her way. “You don’t think she could’ve been the Dreamling, do you?”

“It’s not outside the realm of possibility,” said Selene. She rummaged through her leather book bag and pulled out her phone and the black and white photos. “Samuel was keeping her locked up in that room. He was giving her some kind of medication to keep her complicit. He seemed to know something was unusual about Mrs. Poe.”

“I know we said she sounded perfectly reasonable, but could it be true what Mr. Poe said? That she was unwell?”

Selene stared at the photographs. The faces Mrs. Poe had scribbled out. “My gut is saying no. She was misunderstood.”

The caravan sped down the wet highway as they fell into another silence.

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