Curse of the Nun by Kathryn Dahne

Author:Kathryn Dahne [Dahne, Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781734056808
Publisher: Delivery Minds, LLC
Published: 2019-12-10T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8:

Anna walked silently through the open door into Claire’s room and stopped dead in her tracks. KK was nowhere to be seen, but the room was not empty. Mike and Lex sat on the bed, facing away from Anna and talking quietly to each other. Anna sucked in a breath. This was another hallucination, she told herself.

It had to be.

“I should have done something,” Mike whispered brokenly.

Lex half-shrugged in response. “It was her own fault.”

“She was always so scared of relapsing,” Mike said.

“There was nothing you could have done.”

Mike looked over at Lex. “What about Claire?”

“What about her?”

“She’s your daughter.”

Lex snorted.

“Doesn’t feel like it,” he said bluntly. “I haven’t seen her since the split.”

“Anna kept you away with that restraining order,” Mike said sympathetically.

“And I resent her for that,” Lex replied.

“I don’t blame you.”

“He was dangerous!” Anna blurted out, unable to help herself.

Lex turned to look at her, something inhuman in the set of his face. Anna froze, her heart racing rabbit fast.

“So were you,” he said, his voice twisting into that demonic tone.

Both Lex and Mike turned fully to look at her.

“I didn’t do anything to you!”

She hadn’t. It was Lex who had tried to hurt her. She had no choice but to leave him.

“Then why are you so guilty?” Lex taunted.

“I…” Anna stuttered, not expecting the question.

Mike chimed in, “she never could get past it.”

Anna turned to look at him in disbelief. How could he side with Lex against her?

“Do you still love me?” Lex asked, standing up and starting to advance on Anna.

She tried to form words, but she couldn’t seem to force them out of her throat. Her eyes flicked desperately between him and Mike.

“Mike…I,” she forced out.

Mike looked at her with a horrified expression

“Oh my God! After everything he did to you?”

Of course Anna didn’t still love Lex, not like that. She cared for him, that could never fully go away. He’d been Anna’s shelter once upon a time. Mike understood that, he always had before. She just needed to say something to reassure him. She backed up a step.

Why wouldn’t the words come out?

“Mike, please…”

“He stabbed you, Anna!” Mike shouted at her.

“Come here,” Lex whispered, stepping closer.

Anna backed up further. Lex made a grab for her wrist as she tried to escape back out the bedroom door.

“Stay with me, Anna.” Lex said.

Anna shook him off and bolted for the door, only to find herself running back into the room from the closet.

She stumbled to a confused halt. Mike and Lex were gone. Anna looked across at the open bedroom door. She dashed forward, flinging herself through it, only to come through the closet door and back into the bedroom once more. Anna moved over to the windows, frantically tugging on them.

“KK!” She shouted in desperation.

Anna heard a soft sniffle behind her. She turned back to look at the bed and saw a shape was curled up beneath the covers. It was her daughter crying quietly.

“God…Tell my mom that I love her and miss her,” Claire said under the blanket.

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