Broken Serenade by Stanciu Dorina

Author:Stanciu, Dorina [Stanciu, Dorina]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Dorion Epublishing
Published: 2012-09-11T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

The music came from the living room, adagio at first, but then it grew louder and stronger. Fully awake now, Vivien listened carefully as the composition climbed harmoniously, gradually pushed by musical notes hit with the skill of a master. The continuous crescendo finally reached the culminant point. It was the manner of interpretation in particular that raised icicles on Vivien’s spine. It frightened her more than the realization that a stranger had entered her house in the middle of the night. Her throat tightened from fear, threatening to suffocate her. A cold perspiration covered her body under the sheets. She reached to turn on the night lamp, but discovered that she had no electricity. The clock on her nightstand was dead. Panic paralyzed her. I’ve got to get out of here… She jumped off the bed. Her heart pumped madly. Shubert’s Serenade has four more minutes until the end. If it were whom Vivien suspected it was, that person would not stop in the middle of the song. She would play it until the very final musical note. There is time. I must see her first, I must be sure that she is here indeed, Vivien thought, forcing her lead feet out of the bedroom. In the hallway, she dropped on her knees and crawled to the entrance of the living room. A weak light flickered anemically somewhere in the area where she had her piano.

As she inched her head forward, Vivien saw the birthmark on her ankle first. It was as she always remembered it - unsuccessfully covered with foundation. Then she noticed the anklet at her other foot. The young woman gasped and lifted her eyes. It was indeed she.

Vivien stared at her face as it appeared in that weakening light. The red candle had melted almost entirely. It had leaked on her piano, leaving a hideous red wax stain - like a pool of coagulated blood. Vivien started to shake uncontrollably.

“Mademoiselle Lili,” she whispered involuntarily.

“Vivien, my dear child!” the woman exclaimed emphatically, turning toward Vivien her cadaveric face full of black spots. “Listen carefully, missy!” she hissed through her broken and blackened teeth. “If you dare to fall in love with him, I will kill him,” she threatened with a beastly grin. “I made a mistake the first time. You see, I killed her. Now it’s his turn. And if it happens, it’s all your fault, sweet love,” the woman specified, and a hysterical, diabolical laughter erupted wildly from her throat. She tilted her head back, and it seemed strange that her thread-thin neck did not break.

Invigorated suddenly by the vital need to save her lover, Vivien got up and ran back into her bedroom. I must get out of this haunted house! I must find Tee and warn him that she’s after him, she told herself, pulling frantically to open the window.

In an instant, her nightmare took unimaginable proportions. Someone had erected a brick wall in front of her window.

The fear conquered her being, fluid and lethal like a powerful poison.

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