Deeper Evil (The Evil Secrets Trilogy Book 2) by Vickie McKeehan

Author:Vickie McKeehan [McKeehan, Vickie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Beachdevils Press
Published: 2012-01-04T04:00:00+00:00

In the dream, she was three.

She heard the angry screaming shouts coming from outside her bedroom. She knew she was scared. Were the mean people outside after her, too? She tried to block out the noise by covering her ears, trying to muffle the sound as the shouts got louder. She huddled under the covers. But the shrill voices wouldn’t leave. There were two women yelling at her mama. Every so often she heard her mama’s voice as she yelled back at both women to get out of her house. But it only made the mean people scream louder. And the women still weren’t leaving.

Baylee thought the argument was about her daddy. But that couldn’t be right because he wasn’t even at home. She couldn’t remember where he’d gone. All she knew was that her mother was home alone and arguing with two women.

While her three-year-old mind tried to figure out what was happening outside her door, the adults continued to scream bad words at each other. When the little girl heard hitting noises, her fear for herself turned to fear for her mama. She tried to work up her courage enough to crawl out of bed.

Finally she crept toward her bedroom door. She cracked it open enough to peer outside into the hallway. There she saw two women fighting with her mama as they stood on the upstairs landing. The woman with blonde hair slapped her mama. Baylee recognized her as Kit’s mother. But she remembered that Kit’s mother scared her, that she was big and mean. She didn’t like Kit’s mother.

But she didn’t like the other woman either, the one with long black hair that was yelling mean things in her mama’s face. And then all of a sudden Kit’s mother slapped her mama again. Baylee tried to move; she wanted to run out into the hallway, to make them stop. But her throat tightened. Her stomach hurt and her feet refused to budge.

Just as she started to open the door further and creep toward the fight, the woman with black hair pushed her mama, and she watched as her mama fell in slow motion backwards down the stairs. Baylee remembered hearing the scream and her mama’s cry, which lasted all the way down to the bottom step. She heard the dull thud hit the floor. And then nothing. She saw the two women exchange looks and then calmly descend down the stairs.

The little girl watching from the wings opened her mouth to cry. But no sound came out. Instead, she ran back to the bed and dived underneath just in case they came for her, too.

The adult Baylee sat up, remembering, reliving the moment in the dream when she’d been too scared to help. Perspiring, she fought for air. Reaching for the light on the nightstand, she fumbled in the dark, knocking over several items on the table. She heard something hit the floor. When she clicked on the light, she saw Dylan standing in her doorway.

“Ohmygod, you scared the life right out of me.

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