Grave Sins by Jenna Maclaine

Author:Jenna Maclaine [Maclaine, Jenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Horror & Ghost Stories
Published: 2010-05-21T19:52:01.704000+00:00

Chapter 21

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What followed were two grueling weeks that left me at the end of my emotional tether. Michael and I lived like strangers in the same house, neither of us willing to give in and admit that we were wrong. I knew that I was partially to blame for what had happened with Drake. I had treated him like any other man who flirted innocently with me. But there was nothing innocent about what Drake was doing, and I should have realized it sooner than I had and put a stop to it. Michael, however, had grossly overreacted to the whole situation. I could have quietly forgiven that, but I refused to sweep under the rug the fact that he’d stayed out all night drinking with another woman. Only groveling would fix that and Michael, stubborn fool that he was, had not yet begged for my forgiveness. The fact that he hadn’t made me question all of my actions thus far, wondering what I’d done that would make him think that I should be the first one to apologize.

And if those thoughts weren’t enough to drive me mad, it seemed that the whole town was conspiring to make me doubt myself. After I’d revealed my belief that we were dealing with a ghost, MacLeod had paraded an assortment of priests and ministers through all three townhouses. He even brought in old ladies who had reputations for being able to communicate with the dead. He actually went so far as to get the Right Reverend Daniel Sanford, Bishop of Edinburgh, to come bless the house. We all tried to stay clear of the bishop during this process. Crosses and holy water are only effective if wielded by a true believer, and even then they will only burn if the vampire they are being used against means harm to the human. Still, you can never be too careful. Every one of them, from the bishop himself to old Mrs. Munro, pronounced that the houses were spirit-free. I didn’t tell any of them exactly what I had been doing when I saw the ghost—the mob hadn’t burned a witch in Scotland in a 106 years, though again, you can never be too careful—but they all pretty much patted me on the hand and mumbled something about “the vapors” or “the fancies of young ladies these days.” It was enough to make me want to bite every one of them, including the bishop.

In addition to half the clergy in Edinburgh thinking that I was nothing more than a high-strung twenty-two-year-old girl with an overactive imagination, every vampire in the house was starting to doubt what I had seen as well. Michael believed me, because he had seen it, too, but the others were beginning to voice their skepticism. Sometimes I almost doubted myself, but I knew that whatever it was, it had not been entirely human, and it had not been entirely dead. And what was there between the two, and invisible, other than a ghost? Damned if I knew.

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