Dust to Dust by Karina Halle

Author:Karina Halle [Halle, Karina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Perry

I didn’t know what happened. One minute we were staring at the Christmas display in the living room, as if the house still had electricity under all that dust, the next minute Dex had pushed past me and started sprinting up the stairs.

“Dex!” I yelled at him, trying to grab on. What had Maximus just said about not splitting up?

“Damn it,” Maximus cursed and then went up the stairs after him. I was about to but then I didn’t feel quite right about leaving my mother and sister downstairs alone.

“I think you guys should leave,” I told them but their attention wasn’t on me. It wasn’t on Dex and Maximus who had gone up the stairs. It wasn’t on the Christmas display and the presents of blood.

It was on the man standing by the window, slowly pulling the curtains shut. He was wearing a sharp suit, his back to us. There was something off about him. It was his hand, as he reached for the curtain.

It was a cloven hoof.

The curtains closed, shutting out the outside world, making the world inside turn black. I widened my eyes, trying to see better but the man was gone, disappearing into the shadows of the room

“Who the hell was that?” my mother asked, her voice soft and shaking. I looked to her and Ada. They both looked like they were going to faint.

I swallowed down the lump in my throat, my mouth feeling like it was filled with sawdust. I hadn’t even noticed how fast my heart was racing until I felt it leap against my chest.

“I don’t know,” I croaked out. “I don’t know, I don’t know.” I grabbed their hands and they both gasped from fright and I pulled them toward the front door. I didn’t know what was going on, but this was not their fight. This was Dex’s, and because it was his, it was also mine. But my mother and Ada, they had no reason to be here, no stake.

They had to go. It had been a mistake to bring them here in the first place.

I reached for the doorknob, ready to turn it and escape into the heat and sunshine that seemed like another world, but I cried out in pain instead. It was as hot as grabbing a stove top and immediately seared my skin.

“Perry!” my mom cried out, reaching for my hand. I could barely open it, it was already raw and red, burning away. “We need to get ointment on it.”

“We need to get out of here,” I told her, trying to push past the pain. “It’s fine. Let’s go out the back.” There had been a glass door leading from the kitchen into the small backyard, we had just been so enraptured by the place settings that I didn’t get a good look at it.

We hurried to the kitchen and were surprised to see that the blinds in there had been pulled shut too, shuttering us in darkness. I went straight to

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